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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users linux find and replace in multiple files Post 302555232 by pludi on Wednesday 14th of September 2011 07:55:46 AM
Old 09-14-2011
Just using wildcards in the command line works usually, but it breaks under any of these conditions:
  • If you want to apply more than 1 command
  • If the files where the command should be applied aren't all in the same directory
  • If there are too many files to fit on 1 command line
  • If you want to avoid "is a directory" error messages should a directory have a similar name as the files you want to modify
 

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GRID-PROXY-DESTROY(1)						  Globus Commands					     GRID-PROXY-DESTROY(1)

NAME
grid-proxy-destroy - Destroy the default proxy certificate SYNOPSIS
grid-proxy-destroy [-help] [-usage] [-version] grid-proxy-destroy [-debug] [-dryrun] [-default] [-all] [--] [FILENAME...] DESCRIPTION
The grid-proxy-destroy program removes X.509 proxy files from the local filesystem. It overwrites the data in the files and removes the files from the filesystem. By default, it removes the current user's default proxy (either /tmp/x509up_uUID where UID is the current POSIX user id, or the file pointed to by the X509_USER_PROXY environment variable) unless a list of proxy file paths are included as part of the command line. Use the -- command-line option to separate a list of proxy paths from command line options if the proxy file begins with the - character. The full list of command-line options to grid-proxy-destroy are: -help, -usage Display the command-line options to grid-proxy-destroy. -version Display the version number of the grid-proxy-destroy command -debug Display verbose error messages. -dryrun Do not remove the proxy, but display the path of the files that would have been removed, or the directory where they would have been removed from if the -all command-line option is used. -default Remove the default proxy in addition to the files included on the command-line. Only needed if other paths are included on the command-line. -all Remove the default proxy and all delegated proxies in the temporary file directory. ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
The following environment variables affect the execution of grid-proxy-destroy: X509_USER_PROXY Path to the default user proxy. SEE ALSO
grid-proxy-init(1), grid-proxy-info(1) AUTHOR
University of Chicago Globus Toolkit 5.0.2 04/25/2011 GRID-PROXY-DESTROY(1)
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