If i have a variable which is a decimal number, i.e 34.05 How can you make decimal point fall on the 15th character on the screen? Or any other that you can specify? Can you do it using sed or awk? (3 Replies)
If in a script I am taking an input (R201) for example and assigning it to a variable, how would I change the R to uppercase if it was keyed in as r201? I can't seem to get it to work with toupper (4 Replies)
should be a simple question, I am trying to uppercase every first character in a word on the list.
abc
google
cnn
services
My first thought was sed 'y/^/^/', but it changed all the characters, not just the first character.
any thoughts? (7 Replies)
I need a script that reads the out put of a command (softwareupdate --list) and will tally up the number of asterisks in the output and tell me how many there were. How do I go about getting my script to treat asterisks as a regular character and not a wildcard or some other operator? (8 Replies)
Another frustrating scripting problem from a biologist trying to manipulate a file with several millions line. For each of the line I need to compare the uppercase A or C or G or T with the lowercase a or c or g or t. If there are more uppercases, a + should be added to a new column, otherwise a -... (10 Replies)
I decided I wanted to have the cd command print my full working directory after each cd command, so I put this cw command in .bashrc as a function.
cw ()
{
cd "${1}"
pwd
}While this works I would like pwd to print escapes when a space in a directory name exists. This would... (7 Replies)
I want to make the first character of some words to be uppercase. I have a file like the one below.
uid,givenname,sn,cn,mail,telephonenumber
mattj,matt,johnson,matt johnson,mattj@gmail.com
markv,mark,vennet,matt s vennet,markv@gmail.com
mikea,mike,austi,mike austin,mike@gmail.com
I want... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I am writing a shell script where I want that # should be added in all those lines as the first character where the pattern matches.
file has lot of functions defined
a.sh
#!/bin/bash
fn a {
beautiful evening
sunny day
}
fn b {
}
fn c {
hello world .its a beautiful day
... (12 Replies)
I have a file name :
var=UsrAccChgRpt
I want to make them upper case.
Tried:
$var | tr
Error:
tr: Invalid combination of options and Strings.
Usage: tr | -ds | -s | -ds | -s ] String1 String2
tr { -d | -s | -d | -s } String1
Could you please help. I am using AIX... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: digioleg54
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
bup-margin
bup-margin(1) General Commands Manual bup-margin(1)NAME
bup-margin - figure out your deduplication safety margin
SYNOPSIS
bup margin [options...]
DESCRIPTION
bup margin iterates through all objects in your bup repository, calculating the largest number of prefix bits shared between any two
entries. This number, n, identifies the longest subset of SHA-1 you could use and still encounter a collision between your object ids.
For example, one system that was tested had a collection of 11 million objects (70 GB), and bup margin returned 45. That means a 46-bit
hash would be sufficient to avoid all collisions among that set of objects; each object in that repository could be uniquely identified by
its first 46 bits.
The number of bits needed seems to increase by about 1 or 2 for every doubling of the number of objects. Since SHA-1 hashes have 160 bits,
that leaves 115 bits of margin. Of course, because SHA-1 hashes are essentially random, it's theoretically possible to use many more bits
with far fewer objects.
If you're paranoid about the possibility of SHA-1 collisions, you can monitor your repository by running bup margin occasionally to see if
you're getting dangerously close to 160 bits.
OPTIONS --predict
Guess the offset into each index file where a particular object will appear, and report the maximum deviation of the correct answer
from the guess. This is potentially useful for tuning an interpolation search algorithm.
--ignore-midx
don't use .midx files, use only .idx files. This is only really useful when used with --predict.
EXAMPLE
$ bup margin
Reading indexes: 100.00% (1612581/1612581), done.
40
40 matching prefix bits
1.94 bits per doubling
120 bits (61.86 doublings) remaining
4.19338e+18 times larger is possible
Everyone on earth could have 625878182 data sets
like yours, all in one repository, and we would
expect 1 object collision.
$ bup margin --predict
PackIdxList: using 1 index.
Reading indexes: 100.00% (1612581/1612581), done.
915 of 1612581 (0.057%)
SEE ALSO bup-midx(1), bup-save(1)BUP
Part of the bup(1) suite.
AUTHORS
Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>.
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