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Thanks guys, these work great!

Maybe you can also shed so light on another thing I am trying to do. In these files I have 3 columns with example data as such:

1 2 3
2 3 4
3 4 ...

Hi All,

I am using the awk command to replace ',' by '\t' (tabs) in a csv file. I would like to apply this to all .csv files in a directory and create .txt files with the tabs.

How would I do...

Thanks for that. I think it does have something to do with the -dev install.

Does anyone know where I can get that for cygwin/x11? I tried to reinstall plotutils from source but got an error. ...

Hi All,

I have a makefile for a graphing program utilizing the 'plotutils' pacakage on cygwin/x11. However, when I run the make it can't find the following libraries:

-lplot
-lpng

Have the...

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running cygwin/x11 and when I exit last xterm, Xwin is still running and I can't open anymore windows. When I rehit the Xwin executable a new window doesn't open. So I either want to...

The error I get when I try to run from cygwin/bin/ is:

/usr/bin/startxwin: No such file or directory (errno 2): no server "X" in PATH

Hi All,

I recently upgraded to windows 7 and am therefore reinstalling cygwin/x11 after a long time. On XP I would start xterm from the startxwin.bat file. I am experiencing trouble starting...

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Not sure if this is the right forum but hope someone has the answer. I installed Cygwin/X and usually use the 'startxwin.bat' to start xwin. However, I recently updated to Windows 7 and...

Darn, I thought I tried that!

Thanks alot its working!

Cheers,
ScKaSx

Thanks for the reply scottn,

however what I want to replace is "\begin{}" the thing that is giving me trouble is the "\" backslash which is used for many other things in vi.

Actually the :g//d...

Thanks guys, afew more questions.

Just curiousity but what is :g//d (is it part of substitution)

As for the \(..\) that was a regular expression capture that I forgot to take out.

As for...

Hi All,

I am using LATEX and need to delete all the lines in a file matching:
\begin{work}

I know there are several ways to do this, but I am trying to do it with the substitute command in VI....

rajavu didn't you just remove the ones I wanted to keep? I wanted to remove a.txt and KEEP a_[12].txt.

The -v option is just verbose mode, which I thought might work at first as well (thinking of...

Hi All,

Is there an option for 'rm' to "remove everything but these files"?

For instance if I have:
a.txt <-- I just want to remove this one
a_1.txt
a_2.txt

Is there an option ? for...

Nevermind, it works! I'm a dumbass.

Hi All,

So I found a cool way to change extensions to multiple files with:

for i in *.doc
do
mv $i ${i%.doc}.txt
done

However, what I want to do is move *.txt to *_0hr.txt but the...

Thanks guys,

cfajohnson your script works great. Now i understand that I was just passing literals rather than variables. I just have two questions about the rest of the script:

(1) what does...

Hi All,

So I found a simple sed command to replace text in a file (http://www.labnol.org/internet/design/wordpress-unix-replace-text-multiple-files/1128/):
sed -e 's/OLDtext/NEWtext/' -i file(s)...

Hi All,

I was being foolish. Ygor's command works fine, the file I was testing on with numbers was separated by spaces rather than tabs (My Bad!).

I still can't get the cut command to work. ...

Hi,

Let's say I have the following file:

5000.00 2.387 0 1704 19.1 27.2 0.350 0.350 0.0031 17 18 0.00
3721.90 2.178 0 1003 ...

Hi Guys,

Thanks for the info:

Ygor - I got 'awk' to work on the "a_b_c_d file" but when I try it on a file with numbers it lists all the columns as opposed to just the ones I specify with...

Hi All,

I was recently helped out 'big time' with my last post on changing multiple file formats (thx, scott1256ca and bakunin)!

My new question is about selecting and displaying columns in a...

Hi Guys,

Thanks alot! Scott1256ca, the for command worked brillantly! Also thanks for the tutorial on while bakunin!

Cheers,
ScKaSx

Hi Jim and Everyone Else,

I should've mentioned but I'm using the bash shell so I get errors when I try your solution. What would be the bash equivalent? Also, is there a way to do it with WHILE...

Hi All,

I'm trying to run a simple shell program to change all the files named *.cvs to *.txt. I am trying to use WHILE and this is what I have so far:

This changes the first file from *.cvs...