Somehow someone created a file named '-ov' in the root directory.
Given the name, the how was probably the result of some cpio command they bozo'ed.
I've tried a number of different ways to get rid of it using * and ? wildcards, '\' escape patterns etc.. They all fail with " illegal option --... (3 Replies)
I need to create a file that accepts arguments and options, and the options have to allow for single-dash options (-abc) and double-dash options (--help). What is the best way to do this? Getopt(s) is great for single-dash, but chokes on double-dash. Do I really need to save the arguments to a... (1 Reply)
Hi!
I'm new in these forums and more or less new with Unix. So... here is the question:
does anyone know where is redirected the output of a command when you put >&- after it?
Does it means any standard file descriptor?
Thanks! (2 Replies)
so i have a simple file called -x and i need it renamed to x
now i dont understand why when using the most basic methods, only the code mv ./-x x changes the file name while using any other type of escape characters around the dash, such as single/double quotations or backslash, doesnt.
... (5 Replies)
Is there a way to concatenate two strings, where the first string is "-n" and there is a space between the "-n" and the second string? Below are some examples of what I tried.
#!/bin/sh
var1=test
#working without dashes:
var2="n $var1"
echo $var2
var2=n" "$var1
echo $var2
var2="n... (5 Replies)
vi uses dash and space as word separators. is there any way to exclude dash from word separators ?
This is required to work with the symbols generated by ctags exe. when symbol contain a "-" ,vi tags fails to locate that even though symbol is generated properly.
For example Symbol -... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I must be overlooking something, but I don't understand why this doesn't work. I'm trying to grep on a date, excluding all the lines starting with a dash:
testfile:
#2013-12-31
2013-12-31code:
grep '^2013-12-31' testfileI'm expecting to see just the second line '2013-12-31' but I don't... (3 Replies)
Hi guys and gals...
I am writing a piece of code that is dash compliant and came across this error.
I have put it in the OSX section as that is what I am using.
I have no idea what the 'dash' version is but was installed about 6 months ago.
MBP, OSX 10.12.6, default terminal running dash on... (4 Replies)
Well, guys I saw a question about GOTO for Python.
So this gave me the inspiration to attempt a GOTO function for 'dash', (bash and ksh too).
Machine: MBP OSX 10.14.3, default bash terminal, calling '#!/usr/local/bin/dash'...
This is purely a fun project to see if it is possible in PURE... (3 Replies)
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letterize_ - phone-number to letter-mnemonic generator
SYNOPSIS
letterize nnnnnnn
DESCRIPTION
This program tries to help you find a letter mnemonic matching a given phone number.
It emits to standard output each possible pronounceable mnemonic, one per line, using the American standard mapping of dial letters to
numbers (2 goes to ABC, 3 to DEF, 4 to GHI, 5 to JKL, 6 to MNO, 7 to PRS, 8 to TUV, 9 to XYZ).
The program uses a table of pronounceable letter-triples derived from a dictionary scan. Each potential mnemonic must be such that all of
its letter-triples are in the table to be emitted. About 30% of possible triples are considered pronounceable.
A typical 7-digit phone number has 19,683 possible mnemonics, but this test usually cuts the list down to a few hundred or so, a reasonable
number to eyeball-check. For some numbers, the list will, sadly, be empty.
It's best to leave out punctuation such as dashes and parens.
BUGS
The filtering method doesn't know what plausible medial triples are not reasonable at the beginnings and ends of words.
I'm not sure what table position 0 (which is what 0 and 1 are mapped to) means. If you figure it out, you tell me. I really should have
generated my own table, but that would have been more work than this seemed worth -- if your number contains either, you probably need to
generate your mnemonic in disjoint pieces around the digits anyway.
AUTHOR
Eric S. Raymond esr@snark.thyrsus.com. It's based on a table of plausible letter-triples that had no name attached to it. Surf to
http://www.catb.org/~esr/ for updates and related resources.
letterize 05/30/2012 LETTERIZE(1)