Trivially, take out the -x option which requires the whole line to match, and add an -i option to make matching ignore case. However, that does not anchor searches to beginning of line, so e.g. a file named bestest will match the pattern test. Maybe you could accept a change to the control file format, to support full regular expressions? Then the control file should contain
It's possible to come up with a different workaround if this is not acceptable. If your needs are very specific, perhaps a small awk script would be best.
(With this script, you should keep the original control file.)
Last edited by era; 08-15-2008 at 03:44 AM..
Reason: Oops, mixing Perl and awk syntax
Does any one know how to get a recursive directory listing in long format (showing owner, group, permission etc) without listing the files contained in the directories.
The following command also shows the files but I only want to see the directories.
ls -lrtR * (4 Replies)
Hi All,
I need a solution on my following find command
find ./.. -name '*.file' -print
BTW This gives me the output as belows
./rtlsim/test/ADCONV0/infile/ad0_dagctst.file
./rtlsim/test/ADCONV0/user_command.file
./rtlsim/test/ADCONV0/simv.daidir/scsim.db.dir/scsim.db.file... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I am new to perl:
I need to write perl script to list all the files present in directory and mail should be come to my inbox with all the files present in that directory.
advanced thanks for valuable inputs.
Thanks
Prakash GR (1 Reply)
Hi,
Please let me know how to find out number of files in a directory excluding existing files..The existing file format will be unknown..each time..
Thanks (3 Replies)
HI All,
At present in my server the log folder was filled up and causing memory issue.
So I am planning to write a script in such a way that the files which are older than 30 days will be deleted and also need to find the files which were not compressed and need to compress this file.... (4 Replies)
I am running Ubuntu 11.10
I have the following files.
geo2503r05690585.html
geo2503r06020612.html
geo2503r06250641.html
geo2503r06490658.html
geo2503r06830686.html
geo2503r05860601.html
geo2503r06130624.html
geo2503r06420648.html
geo2503r06590682.html ... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I have a folder which contains files in this format.
abc-bin.000001
abc-bin.000002
abc-bin.000003
abc-bin.000004
abc-bin.000005
abc-bin.000006
abc-bin.000007
abc-bin.000008
abc-bin.000009
abc-bin.000010
abc-bin.index
I want to copy all the files between
abc-bin.000004... (6 Replies)
Find all files in the current directory only excluding hidden directories and files.
For the below command, though it's not deleting hidden files.. it is traversing through the hidden directories and listing normal which should be avoided.
`find . \( ! -name ".*" -prune \) -mtime +${n_days}... (7 Replies)
Hi,
I want to display the file names and the record count for the files in the 2nd column for the files created today.
i have written the below command which is listing the file names. but while piping the above command to the wc -l command
its not working for me.
ls -l... (5 Replies)
Hii,
Could someone help me to append string to the starting of all the filenames inside a directory but it should exclude .zip files and subdirectories.
Eg.
file1: test1.log
file2: test2.log
file3 test.zip
After running the script
file1: string_test1.log
file2: string_test2.log
file3:... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: Ravi Kishore
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
quiz
QUIZ(6) BSD Games Manual QUIZ(6)NAME
quiz -- random knowledge tests
SYNOPSIS
quiz [-t] [-i file] [question answer]
DESCRIPTION
The quiz utility tests your knowledge of random facts. It has a database of subjects from which you can choose. With no arguments, quiz
displays the list of available subjects.
The options are as follows:
-t Use tutorial mode, in which questions are repeated later if you didn't get them right the first time, and new questions are presented
less frequently to help you learn the older ones.
-i Specify an alternative index file.
Subjects are divided into categories. You can pick any two categories from the same subject. quiz will ask questions from the first cate-
gory and it expects answers from the second category. For example, the command ``quiz victim killer'' asks questions which are the names of
victims, and expects you to answer with the cause of their untimely demise, whereas the command ``quiz killer victim'' works the other way
around.
If you get the answer wrong, quiz lets you try again. To see the right answer, enter a blank line.
Index and Data File Syntax
The index and data files have a similar syntax. Lines in them consist of several categories separated by colons. The categories are regular
expressions formed using the following meta-characters:
pat|pat alternative patterns
{pat} optional pattern
[pat] delimiters, as in pat[pat|pat]pat
In an index file, each line represents a subject. The first category in each subject is the pathname of the data file for the subject. The
remaining categories are regular expressions for the titles of each category in the subject.
In data files, each line represents a question/answer set. Each category is the information for the question/answer for that category.
The backslash character (``'') is used to quote syntactically significant characters, or at the end of a line to signify that a continuation
line follows.
If either a question or its answer is empty, quiz will refrain from asking it.
FILES
/usr/share/games/bsdgames/quiz The default index and data files.
BUGS
quiz is pretty cynical about certain subjects.
BSD May 31, 1993 BSD