Hi,
I'm trying to write a command that backs up certain files into my current directory and adds a prefix to the backed up file name. I realise this can be done in a script by specifying each individual file but would like to know if it can be done on one line and made an alias.
I have the... (5 Replies)
I have many files that have "inputstring" somewhere in their filename (without the quotes), and I want to rename them all so that "inputstring" is replaced with "newstring". And I also want to specify arbitrary text for "inputstring" and "newstring" so that I can call the scripts that does this... (6 Replies)
I have a large list of filenames from an Excel sheet, which I then translate into a simple text file. I'd like to use this list, which contains various file extensions , to archive these files and then remove them recursively through multiple directories and subdirectories. So far, it looks like... (5 Replies)
Hello,
I am trying to write a bash shell script that does the following:
1.Finds all *.txt files within my directory of interest
2. reads each of the files (25 files) one by one (tab-delimited format and have the same data format)
3. skips the first 10 rows of the file
4. extracts and... (4 Replies)
Hi--
I'm trying to figure out how to use cat more wisely. I have the following command, which works, but I'd like to understand how to get it to work more clearly and efficiently.
cat 'my file.001' 'my file.002' 'my file.003' 'my file.004' 'my file.005' 'my file.006' 'my file.007' 'my... (6 Replies)
Hopefully the title summarized what I need help with. I have multiple files that I would like to concatenate in bash.
ie:
cat file1 file2 file3 > bigfile
except I do not want to include the first line from each file (). Any help? Thanks. (6 Replies)
I have a number of files in a directory named like this:
fooP1, fooN1, fooP2, fooN2 ... fooP(i), fooN(i).
I'd like to know how to combine each P and N pair into a single file, foo(i)
TIA
John Balwit (1 Reply)
I have a folder that contains a number of files with file names as follows:
XX.YYYY..ZZZ.2014.001.000000
XX.YYYY..ZZZ.2014.001.000400
XX.YYYY..ZZZ.2014.001.000800
XX.YYYY..ZZZ.2014.001.001200
XX.YYYY..ZZZ.2014.001.001600
.....
XX.YYYY..ZZZ.2014.002.000000
XX.YYYY..ZZZ.2014.002.000400... (8 Replies)
there are mutiple file nams in the directory. How to return the the lastest files for each file name.
ex.
abc1234_050201
abc1234_050206
abc1234_050208
xyz34_050204
xyz34_050210
xyz34_050218
thanks (4 Replies)
I am able to list all the filenames under a directory & its sub-directories except blent.tar on Linux
find "/tmp/" -type f | grep -v blent.tar | rev | cut -d '/' -f1 | rev
Desired Output:
THIRDPARTYLICENSEREADME.txt
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libjavaplugin_oji.so... (3 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
urlcoding
URLCODING(3) libbash urlcoding Library Manual URLCODING(3)NAME
urlcoding -- a Libbash library for encoding and decoding URL's.
SYNOPSIS
urlEncodeString [-l] <STRING>
urlEncodeFile [-l] <FILE>
urlEncodeStream [-l]
urlDecodeString <STRING>
urlDecodeFile <FILENAME>
urlDecodeStream
DESCRIPTION
urlcoding is a collection of functions that convert ASCII-text to standard URL's and vice-versa. The AWK code used is based on code by Heiner
Steven <heiner.steven@odn.de>
The function list:
urlEncodeString Creates a URL from an ASCII string
urlEncodeFile Converts a file into URL-valid text
urlEncodeStream Converts standard input into URL-valid text
urlDecodeString Converts a URL-encoded text back to a plain-text form
urlDecodeFile Coverts URL-encoded text in a file back to plain text
urlDecodeStream Converts URL-encoded standard input to text
Detailed interface description follows.
The [-l] option for the encoding functions should be used when line-feed characters ('
') are to be encoded as well.
All functions print the results of their conversions to standard output.
The exit status of all functions is that of the command 'awk', with '0' for success
FUNCTIONS DESCRIPTIONS
urlEncodeString [-l] <STRING>
Converts STRING - a string of ASCII characters - to URL.
urlEncodeFile [-l] <FILE>
Coverts FILE of URL-encoded text to plain text
urlEncodeStream [-l]
Converts text from standard input to URL-text.
urlDecodeString <STRING>
Converts URL-encoded string STRING back to text.
urlDecodeFile <FILENAME>
Converts the URL-encoded text in FILE to plain text.
urlDecodeStream
Converts the URL-encoded text from standard input to plain-text
AUTHORS
Alon Keren <alon.keren@gmail.com>
SEE ALSO ldbash(1), libbash(1)Linux Epoch Linux