I have a vexing issue with leading spaces in file names. Basically, we're moving tons of data from our ancient afp file share to Box.com and Box forbids leading spaces in files or folders. The HFS file system seems to be perfectly fine with this, but almost all other Unix file systems are not. Of course, our users put leading spaces in some of their file names and folders so that those files and folders would show up at the top of the directory listing in the Finder. I have almost seven thousand of these instances spread out among 600 gigs of file data. My bash script already strips out illegal characters, however, I'm not sure how to add leading spaces to the script. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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Hello and thx for reading this
I'm using sed to remove only the leading spaces in a file
bash-280R# cat foofile
some text
some text
some text
some text
some text
bash-280R#
bash-280R# sed 's/^ *//' foofile > foofile.use
bash-280R# cat foofile.use
some text
some text
some text... (6 Replies)
Dear All,
can you please advice how do i remove trailing and leading spaces from a pipe-delimited file using "tr" command
the below cmd, i tried removed all spaces
tr -d ' '<s1.txt>s2.txt1
Many thx
Suresh (5 Replies)
Hi All,
I have spaces in between file names.
"Material Header.txt"
"Customer Header.txt"
"Vendor Header.txt"
And how can I remove spaces between file names like below
MaterialHeader.txt
CustomerHeader.txt
VendorHeader.txt
Thanks
Srimitta (10 Replies)
Hi Experts,
In a file tht i copied from the web , i am not able to remove the leading white spaces. I tried the below , none of them working . I opened the file through vi to check for the special characters if any , but no such characters found.
Your advice will be greatly appreciated.
sed... (5 Replies)
Hi,
I have a directory with the following file names
01 - abc hyn
02-def
03-ghi.dir
04 - jhu.dir
abc1 kil
def bil
The last two file names abc1 starts with one space and def starts with double space. I want these files in my directory to be renamed as
ABC HYN
DEF
GHI.dir... (6 Replies)
I have a text file with a line of text that contains numbers and text formatted into groups. I need to extract the number that can be either 1,2 or 3 digits long. Then write it to a variable, but i need to remove any leading spaces in the number first.
I can get the numbers out but how to remove... (12 Replies)
Hi,
I am trying to remove leading and trailing spaces from a file using awk but somehow I have not been able to do it.
Here is the data that I want to trim.
07/12/2017 15:55:00 |entinfdev |AD ping Time ms | .474| 1.41| .581|green |flat... (9 Replies)
OS : RHEL 6.7
Shell : bash
I am trying to remove the leading the spaces in the below file
$ cat pattern2.txt
hello1
hello2
hello3
hello4
Expected output is shown below.
$ cat pattern2.txt
hello1
hello2
hello3
hello4 (2 Replies)
Hi
I have variable named tablename. The value to tablename variable has leading and trailing white spaces. How to remove the leading and training white spaces and write the value of the tablename without space to a file using shell script. ( for e.g. tablename= yyy )
INPUT
... (10 Replies)
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mail::server::imap4::list
Mail::Server::IMAP4::List(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation Mail::Server::IMAP4::List(3pm)NAME
Mail::Server::IMAP4::List - folder related IMAP4 answers
SYNOPSIS
my $imap = Mail::Server::IMAP4::List->new
( folders => $folders # Mail::Box::Identity
, inbox => $inbox # Mail::Box
, delimiter => '#'
);
my $imap = Mail::Server::IMAP4::List->new(user => $user);
print $imap->list(...); # for LIST command
METHODS
Constructors
Mail::Server::IMAP4::List->new(USER)
Create a (temporary) object to handle the LIST requests for a certain user, based upon a set of folders. The data is kept by
Mail::Box::Identity and Mail::Box::Collection objects, which mean that the folders will not be opened to answer these questions.
-Option--Default
delimeter '/'
folders <from user>
inbox <from user>
user <undef>
delimeter => STRING|CODE
Either the constant delimiter, or a code reference which will get passed a folder name and should return the delimiter string used in
that name. If that folder name is empty, the default delimiter must be reported. See delimiter() for an example.
folders => OBJECT
You need to specify either a set of folders explicitly or via the user. Some Mail::Box::Identity OBJECT is needed.
inbox => BOOLEAN
For now, only used to see whether there is an inbox, so a truth value will do. This may change in the future. By default, the flag
is set if "$user-"inbox> is defined.
user => OBJECT
A Mail::Box::Manage::User OBJECT, representing the user who's folders must get reported.
Attributes
$obj->delimiter([FOLDERNAME])
Returns the delimiter string. The foldername is only required when a CODE reference was specified at initiation.
example: setting-up an IMAP4 delimeter
sub delim($)
{ my $path = shift;
my ($delim, $root)
= $path =~ m/^(#news.)/ ? ('.', $1)
= $path =~ m!^/! ? ('/', '/')
: ('/', '');
wantarray ? ($delim, $root) : $delim;
}
my $list = Mail::Server::IMAP4::List->new(delimiter => &delim, ...);
print $list->delimiter('abc/xyz'); # returns a / (slash) and ''
print $list->delimiter('#news.feed'); # returns a . (dot) and $news.
print $list->delimiter(''); # returns default delimiter
$obj->folders()
Returns the Mail::Box::Identity of the toplevel folder.
$obj->inbox()
Returns the Mail::Box or filename of the INBOX.
$obj->user()
Returns the Mail::Box::Manage::User object, if defined.
IMAP Commands
$obj->list(BASE, PATTERN)
IMAP's LIST command. The request must be partially decoded, the answer will need to be encoded.
example: using IMAP list
my $imap = Mail::Server::IMAP4::List->new(delimiter => &delim, ...);
local $" = ';';
my @lines = $imap->list('', ''); # returns the default delimiter
print ">@{$lines[0]}<"; # >(Noselect);/;<
my @lines = $imap->list('#news',''); # specific delimiter
print ">@{$lines[0]}<"; # >(Noselect);.;<
my @lines = $imap->list('top/x/', '%');
print ">@$_<," foreach @lines; # >();/;/tmp/x/y<,>(Marked);/;/tmp/x/z<
DETAILS
See
RFC2060: "Internet Message Access Protocol IMAP4v1"
sections 6.3.8 (LIST question) and 7.2.2 (LIST answer)
SEE ALSO
This module is part of Mail-Box distribution version 2.105, built on May 07, 2012. Website: http://perl.overmeer.net/mailbox/
LICENSE
Copyrights 2001-2012 by [Mark Overmeer]. For other contributors see ChangeLog.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See
http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html
perl v5.14.2 2012-05-07 Mail::Server::IMAP4::List(3pm)