Very nice radoulov! I'm a bash dude and was familiar with ${VAR/MATCH/REPLACE/} syntax but didn't know about all the extra details, so was a bit confused at first. For anyone else that's looking for an explanation, here's the relevant bit from bash's man page:
PS: Can you explain what exactly "IFS=" is doing in there?
Hello,
I have a requirement to search a directory, which contains any number of other directories for file names that contain special characters.
directory structure
DIR__
|__>DIR1
|__>DIR2__
|__>DIR2.1
|__>DIR2.2
|__>DIR3
..
... (8 Replies)
Hi.
I have many files in a folder, and even more in the subfolders. I need a script that finds and removes certain characters (them being /n in this one) in the files in the folder and it's subfolders.
So, could someone write me a script that works in Linux, does this:
Searchs for "/n" in... (5 Replies)
Hi all,
Am creating files and doing copy,compare and deletion.
As i do not want to mention the filepath everywhere, i store the filepaths in variables.
FILENAME="/home/test/create/Myfile.txt"
WR_PATH="/home/test/wrie/writefile.txt"
RD_PATH="/home/test/myread/readfile.txt"
echo "This is my... (2 Replies)
I want to create a temp file which is named based on a search string. The search string may contain spaces or characters that aren't supposed to be used in filenames so I want to strip those out.
My thought was to use 'tr' with but the result is the opposite of what I want:
$ echo "test... (5 Replies)
Hi Gurus,
Do any kind souls encounter have the same script as mentioned here.
Find and compare filenames in different mount point and remove duplicates.
Thanks a million!!!
wanna13e (7 Replies)
Hi,
I am creating a script to do a find and replace single/multiple lines in a file with any number of lines.
I have written a logic in a script that reads a reference file say "findrep" and populates two variables $FIND and $REPLACE
print $FIND gives
Hi How r $u
Rahul()
Note:... (0 Replies)
I have a perl find program that will find all files of window application stored on unix disks.
Ofcourse these files contain all the weird characters windows allows, but on *nix pukes out all kinds of unwanted effects when processing these.
Is their a utility that will escape all these... (3 Replies)
hello,
I'm trying to figure out which tool is best for recursively renaming and files or folders using the characters \/*?”<>| in their name. I've tried many examples that use Bash, Python and Perl, but I'm not much of a programmer I seem to have hit a roadblock.
Does anyone have any... (15 Replies)
Hi,
I have a file having following content.
<sip:9376507346@97.208.31.7:51088
<sip:9907472291@97.208.31.7:51208
<sip:8103742422@97.208.31.7:51024
<sip:9579892841@97.208.31.7:51080
<sip:9370904222@97.208.31.7:51104
<sip:9327665215@97.208.31.7:51104
<sip:9098364262@97.208.31.7:51024... (2 Replies)
Hi Guys,
My requirement is to remove any invisible and special characters from the file like control M(carriage return) and alt numerics and it should not replace @#!$%
abc|xyz|acd¥£ó
adc|123| 12áí
Please help on this.
Thanks
Rakesh (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: rakeshp
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LEARN ABOUT X11R4
fc-pattern
FC-PATTERN(1)FC-PATTERN(1)NAME
fc-pattern - parse and show pattern
SYNOPSIS
fc-pattern [ -cdVh ] [ --config ] [ --default ] [ -f format | --format format ] [ --version ] [ --help ]
[ pattern [ element ... ] ]
DESCRIPTION
fc-pattern parses pattern (empty pattern by default) and shows the parsed result. If --config is given, config substitution is performed
on the pattern before being displayed. If --default is given, default substitution is performed on the pattern before being displayed.
If any elements are specified, only those are printed.
OPTIONS
This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included
below.
-c --config
Perform config substitution on pattern.
-d --default
Perform default substitution on pattern.
-f --format format
Format output according to the format specifier format.
-V --version
Show version of the program and exit.
-h --help
Show summary of options.
pattern
Parses and displays pattern (uses empty pattern by default).
element
If set, the element property is displayed for parsed pattern.
SEE ALSO FcNameParse(3)FcConfigSubstitute(3)FcDefaultSubstitute(3)FcPatternPrint(3)FcPatternFormat(3)fc-cat(1)fc-cache(1)fc-list(1) fc-
match(1)fc-query(1)fc-scan(1)
The fontconfig user's guide, in HTML format: /usr/share/doc/fontconfig/fontconfig-user.html.
AUTHOR
This manual page was updated by Behdad Esfahbod <behdad@behdad.org>.
16 April 2012 FC-PATTERN(1)