BTW ..What is ++ operator as in (( ++count )) called ?
It's known as a pre-increment operator. It means, first increment the value in count and then use it.
On the contrary, there's a post-increment operator ((count++)); which means use it first and then increment it.
It will be clear in the following example:
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Hello, Im writing a script that works by recursively going into directories with find. But I have some directories that have spaces in them.. so I need to parse the variables to add a backslash before the spaces.
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Hey all,
I have a very simple regular expression that I use when I want to allow only letters with spaces. (I know this regex has a lot of shortcomings, but I'm still trying to learn them)
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I have one problem with my bash script - I would like to be able to read white space characters from stdin (for example single " ") - can I acomplish that somehow? I need to read only one character at the time, so I use read -s -n 1 var but it doesn't work for whitespaces apparently.
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file1
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ftphosts(4) Kernel Interfaces Manual ftphosts(4)NAME
ftphosts - ftpd individual user host access file
SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION
The file is used to allow or deny access to certain accounts from various hosts.
Access Capabilities
The formats to allow and deny access are described in this section.
addrglob [ addrglob... ]
Only allow host(s) matching addrglob to log in as username. addrglob is a globbed domain name or a globbed numeric address.
addrglob [ addrglob ... ]
Always deny host(s) matching addrglob to log in as username. addrglob is a globbed domain name or a globbed numeric address.
A username of or specifies the anonymous user.
The addrglob can also be specified as address/cidr or address:netmask. For example:
or
Specifying Both allow and deny Rules
To allow a user to login from anywhere except the listed hosts, both allow and deny rules are required.
The following example denies the user from logging in from the host but allows login from all other hosts:
EXAMPLES
Allow the user, to login from the host named and from all hosts with numeric addresses starting with
Deny (do not allow) the user, to login from the host named and from all hosts with numeric addresses starting with
Allow the user, to login from the host named
FILES AUTHOR
was developed by the Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri.
SEE ALSO ftpd(1M), ftpaccess(4), ftpconversions(4), ftpshut(1).
ftphosts(4)