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I'm trying to understand some subtle behavior of find and its -regex option I am trying to create symbolic links from files entitled slides_.*.pdf in folders that start with L1[0-6]. I tried the ...
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Please look at this pattern replacement in parameter expansion: % zsh -c 'echo ${0/%.jpg/.jpeg}' toto.jpg toto.jpeg Replacement does not occur here: % zsh -c 'echo ${0/%.jpg/.jpeg}' toto.JPG toto.JPG ...
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I'm new to sed, I have a string lightdm --session-child 14 21 the two numbers can change and I would remove everything after lightdm I tried various way but none worked sed 's/ --session-child*//' ...
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The following code should demonstrate and help with testing inefficient Pattern Matching expressions in a Parameter Substitution for a newline-separated strings var vs. array. The goal is to achieve ...
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I'm trying to replace "}," by "}" from the last line of a file : My /etc/firefox/policies/policies.json file like this because I added the certificate lines using a for loop : $ ...
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This is zmv command to non-recursively replace any number of spaces with a single underscore (thanks to Stéphane Chazelas, who helped me with it): zmv -- '* *' '${f// ##/_}' And here is a command ...
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case "$1","$name" in -py | --python | --python3,*) if [[ "$name" =~ \..+$ ]]; then That doesn't catch stuff, which actually it should, like… USERNAME@HOSTNAME:~$ ...
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I have a file as following: example.txt -1 15 1 0 0 11 -1.0000E+001 1.0000E+001 -1.0000E+001 2 0 0 11 1.0000E+001 1.0000E+001 ...
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Below is my sample test.log file export SQRDIR=/v/orahome/Middleware/Oracle/bin64 export OID=ap0092 export PWD=pass1 export FDPWD=pass1 export AP0085_PWD=pass1 export SVR=AFFPROD export ...
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I need to print lines between those that contain a "/" in the name. I tried with: awk '/+SOLUTION/ESTIMATES/,/-SOLUTION/ESTIMATES/' $F > fil$F and awk '/+SOLUTION"/"ESTIMATES/,/...
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For example, in a large file I might have: This is a /16 text file I'd like to change it to the following: This is a [[[/16]]]] text file Would like to match the exact string /16 Is there a way to ...
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Here is a transcript of commands (and their output) that explains my problem: /tmp/example $ shopt -s cdspell on checkwinsize on cmdhist on complete_fullquote on direxpand ...
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I'd like to know if it's possible to replace both filename.ext and a matched pattern inside its content regarding a pattern founded on the filename itself using sed (and grep also, maybe?). Let me ...
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I want to find repeated copies of the config section within the partition dump (binary file), using pattern and 'magic' header. The config section always starts with 202 '0xff' bytes followed by 4 ...
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Edit: Question ansewered by Gordon Davisson's comment I was reading the GNU Bash manual, and I noticed that there are basically three types of "Parameter expansion" that do pattern matching: ...
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I need to locate .php and .pl files that do not contain one string (e.g. aaa), but do contain another (e.g. bbb). I'm currently using this command: find /path/ \( -iname '*.php*' -or -name '*.pl*' \) -...
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I'm trying to tally insertions and deletions from git diffs. I have the following, which when piped one or more strings of the form "4 files changed, 629607 insertions(+), 123 deletions(-)" ...
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I was getting inconsistent results with pattern matching using -name, -iname, especially when looking for files -type f or directories type -d. Can someone explain under which circumstances -name ...
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I want to write a glob pattern to match numbers separated by commas. What would the pattern be like? Here are some examples 5 5,8,13 Have started with the following, but there some problem with it, ...
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I have a directory structure that follows this kind of pattern: - Dir 01 (Disc 1) \ - Dir 01 (Disc 1).iso - Dir 01 (Disc 2) \ - Dir 01 (Disc 2).iso - Dir 01 (Disc 3) \ - Dir 01 (Disc 3).iso - ...
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I have 16 collections of 8 numbers (11 12 11 44 11 12 11 23) (12 21 11 44 11 12 11 23) (11 42 21 13 12 21 31 14) (11 42 21 13 12 21 11 34) and so on I want to find whether there are repetitions of ...
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I have a txt file looking like this, 1:Ana:apple:08:00:wait 1:Joe:banana:08:30:wait 1:Oscar:orange:08:45:ready 1:Monica:apple:08:50:ready 1:Mark::orange:ready I have to find only the first line that ...
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I have a file with the following lines in i: .......... FROM ABCD_EXT .......... FROM HEG_EXT1 .......... from xyz_EXT .......... FROM abd_EXT2 ..........where QWT_EXT.SID=POI_EXT....
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I'm wondering what would be the best way (likely using grep or ack) to return lines containing unbalanced special character sets in a string? For example, if the string were: bqM#+t1U"OyBGhk]ozVG[...
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Say we have a file called "Hello World: The easiest program" and its name is saved in a variable called "title". I want to match this with glob pattern matching, but remove the ...
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vm0 host=10.182.35.1 controller=True vm1 host=10.182.35.2 controller=False solution=abc vm2 host=10.182.35.3 controller=True solution=abc vm3 host=10.182.37.4 controller=False solution=xyz vm4 host=10....
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I'm beginner in bash scripts, but I try to delete everything in my pdb file (test.pdb) before REMARK time 20.00 and from REMARK time 30.00 to the end of this file. I'm using to this sed command, which ...
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So I have files that need to remove/move/filter. All files have this pattern like this in a directory, let's say directory frames contain this pattern filename timestamp_in_nanosecond.jpg. And this is ...
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Sample markdown file: cat index.md # Abstract - To achieve [Work Life Balance](./WorkLifeBalance/WorkLifeBalance.md), first understand what it means and what are the requirements. - Develop right **[...
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I have a bunch of files that contain strings similar to: Get<1>(abc) Get<2>(xyz) How can I recursively search for all files with the above pattern and remove everything before the first '(...
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My directory looks like this: $ ls total 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 user user 0 Jun 18 22:44 file0 -rw-r--r-- 1 user user 0 Jun 18 22:44 file1 -rw-r--r-- 1 user user 0 Jun 18 22:44 file2 -rw-r--r-- 1 user user 0 ...
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I'm looking for a tool that gives me the total size on disk of certain folders and files. It should be able to unambiguously include or exclude items and all of their children (folders and files in it)...
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i have several patterns that include ** wildcard, let them be: foo/**/bar.xml foo/**/baz.xml and i have an example dirtree: $ tree foo/ foo/ └── deep ├── baz.xml └── even └── deeper ...
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file1: G A 4 H B 3 I C 2 J D 1 file2: M H 6 N H 5 O K 4 P J 3 Q I 2 R I 1 S G 0 T L 1 Desired: M H 6 N H 5 P J 3 Q I 2 R I 1 S G 0 print only rows where $2 from file2 matches $1 from file1 I'm ...
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I have in a directory files like this : booklet-001.pdf booklet-002.pdf booklet-003.pdf … booklet-997.pdf booklet-998.pdf booklet-999.pdf Then, I whant to match the files numbered from 079 to 256. ...
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I store my MediaWiki 1.36.1 website with Skin:Timeless on NameCheap with a shared hosting environment with Cpanel file manager and SSH shell access. In my website, there is a certain footer element ...
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I have extended_glob set in .zshrc. this works as expected: [[ "value" = [a-z]* ]] && echo "globbed" Prints "globbed". But this does not: foo=[a-z]* [[ "...
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I need to put one text inside another text. 1) I have a file with list of input values: A1 B2 C3 D4 E5 I have a wrapper pattern which should contain the text: $wgSpecialPageLockdown['INPUT_COMES_HERE'...
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Say I have two possible paths I want to list directories and files under on a Linux machine: /some/path1/ /some/path2/ If I do the following in tcsh, I get 0 exit code, if at least one of path1 or ...
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I have an alias set as follows: alias ppp='prettier --write "**/*.js"' I want it also to do all my .ts files. I'm quite inept at wild card expressions sadly.
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While writing some awk code I was using the --lint option for gawk 4.1.0. To my surprise I get a warning warning: range of the form `[o-b]' is locale dependent but my code has only a foo-bar outside ...
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In short, I instinctively wrote a command like this to find the two files prefix.ext and prefix_suffix.ext down a hierarchy find /some/path -type f -name 'prefix?(_suffix).zip' but it doesn't work. ...
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When navigating through Linux man pages, sometimes you need to query the meaning of flags like -p or -al in the man pages. The default text reader for man pages is less and I'm trying to use the / ...
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Let´s suppose I have the following file.txt: asiub sj abq b aia ainp oo test = 123d sub ,. aiba 87ab test = 129szs bq test = aqua ayqvq 133s I want to print only the lines of file.txt that contain ...
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How can one recursively copy all files of a specific pattern (*.tpl) using rsync? Example: /etc/test.tpl /etc/dir/test.tpl /etc/dir/**/test.tpl
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I have a datafile, with dates in 2nd column # cat datafile -;20210106;-;-;-; -;20210112;-;-;-; -;20210112;-;-;-; -;20210112;-;-;-; ... -;20210217;-;-;-; -;20210217;-;-;-; -;20210217;-;-;-; -;20210217;-...
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I would like to pick out lines from a file matching # Mode: org # can be any comment character for the programming language of the file. Rather than #, in could also be any of ; or !, with any ...
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I have text file, and in it has a block that has pattern like below: # cat file Jit .... enabled=false Jit ..shoes.. From=2021-01-01 Jit ..gloves.. From=2021-01-01 so I want to change all of these ...
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I have a file in Linux which contains a line like : (memberOf=CN=Group1)(memberOf=CN=Group2)(memberOf=CN=Group3)(memberOf=CN=Group4) My goal is to populate the list of groups that is present in the ...
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file1: pattern1 a b c end cmd=> cat file1 | sed -n '/pattern1/,/pattern2/p' output=> pattern1 a b c end How to not print the output if the second pattern does not match? Desired output: ...
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