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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Finding and renaming files with exceptions Post 302970284 by azurite on Monday 4th of April 2016 10:47:50 PM
Old 04-04-2016
Quote:
Originally Posted by Don Cragun
Hi azurite,
First, a suggestion: Don't be afraid to try things and watch what happens!

And, another suggestion: Instead of searching the web to try to figure out what a utility on your system will do, read the manual page for that utility on your system. For instance, the command:
Code:
man find

will show you the manual page for the find utility on your system.

You still haven't told us what shell you're using.
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Hello,

Thank you for the explanations. I think I'm beginning to understand it a bit better now. I work on ubuntu on the work computer so I can't really experiment right now lest I mess something up. I'm in the process of trying to install ubuntu on my laptop via virtualbox so hopefully I can start experimenting soon.
I think the work computer uses bash but I will check soon. Thank you for the instructions on how to do that.

I have one more question, I found this bit of commands in a tutorial that was somewhat related to my work and I was wondering if you could tell me what the command does?

Code:
[bash]mv *.bvec bvecs[/bash]
[bash]mv *.bval bvals[/bash]

Again, thank you for your assistance!
Moderator's Comments:
Mod Comment Please use CODE tags (not ICODE tags) for full-line an multi-line sample input, output, and code segments.

Last edited by Don Cragun; 04-05-2016 at 12:33 AM.. Reason: Change ICODE tags to CODE tags.
 

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RBASH(1)						      General Commands Manual							  RBASH(1)

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rbash - restricted bash, see bash(1) RESTRICTED SHELL
If bash is started with the name rbash, or the -r option is supplied at invocation, the shell becomes restricted. A restricted shell is used to set up an environment more controlled than the standard shell. It behaves identically to bash with the exception that the follow- ing are disallowed or not performed: o changing directories with cd o setting or unsetting the values of SHELL, PATH, ENV, or BASH_ENV o specifying command names containing / o specifying a file name containing a / as an argument to the . builtin command o specifying a filename containing a slash as an argument to the -p option to the hash builtin command o importing function definitions from the shell environment at startup o parsing the value of SHELLOPTS from the shell environment at startup o redirecting output using the >, >|, <>, >&, &>, and >> redirection operators o using the exec builtin command to replace the shell with another command o adding or deleting builtin commands with the -f and -d options to the enable builtin command o using the enable builtin command to enable disabled shell builtins o specifying the -p option to the command builtin command o turning off restricted mode with set +r or set +o restricted. These restrictions are enforced after any startup files are read. When a command that is found to be a shell script is executed, rbash turns off any restrictions in the shell spawned to execute the script. SEE ALSO
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