Try ls -i to get the inode of the file. This will uniquely identify it without depending on the filename. Then you can give that inode to find and have it feed the filename into mv for you.
Remove the 'echo' once you've tested and are sure it finds the file you want.
I want to replace a string which contains "/" in vi but what is the escape character for forward slash?
e.g. I have a text file with the contents below and I want to replace "/Top/Sub/Sub1" with "ABC".
/Top/Sub/Sub1
The replace command I am using is ... (4 Replies)
Hi
I'm trying to split a dir listing
eg
/home/foo1/foo2
I'm using ksh
I've tried
dir=/home/foo1/foo2
splitit=`echo $dir | awk -F '\/' '{print $1}'`
echo $splitit
nothing is output!
I have checked the escape character. The only one I have found is \
BTW `pwd` | awk -F \/... (8 Replies)
Hi ,
I want to change space to ' in my script.
I tried doing this,
sed 's/ /\'/g' filename
but i could not get it.
can some one help me please.
Thanks,
Deepak (4 Replies)
Hello,
I wanted to display command with echo like this in tcsh.
output should be "//'test.test1.test2'"
(" at both ends also required in output)
Please help me. (1 Reply)
Hi All,
How do i write in sed for the 6th and 7th field of etc/passwd file as it involves "/" character?
Does mine below is correct? It's incomplete script as i need help with syntax as i always getting may errors :(
Example of etc/passwd file:
blah:x:1055:600:blah... (6 Replies)
All ,
i have input line as below .
abc\ , ewioweioi \,
and want the output as below removing the "\"
abc , ewioweioi ,
could anyone help me out (2 Replies)
i have string as below
str=".<date>"
in which i need to replace < with /< , when i tried with sed , got the output.
--> echo $str | sed 's/</\\</g'
.\<date>
when i tried to assign it to a variable , i am not getting the same
--> a=`echo $str | sed 's/</\\</g'` ; echo $a... (4 Replies)
friends,
I have a situation where i am using a $RANDOM function along with the filename, I want this to be escaped by the OS in the first assignment (works as expected) and executed in the second assignment (does not execute $RANDOM)
filename1=filename1_\$RANDOM
echo $filename1... (3 Replies)
Hi ,
I am looking for a function which will do the following.
1. I have a variable which will hold few special chracter like
SPECIAL_CHARS="& ;"2. I have an escape character.
ESCAPE_CHAR="\"3. Now when I passed some string in the function it will return the same string but now it will... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: Anupam_Halder
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LEARN ABOUT BSD
diff3
DIFF3(1) General Commands Manual DIFF3(1)NAME
diff3 - 3-way differential file comparison
SYNOPSIS
diff3 [ -exEX3 ] file1 file2 file3
DESCRIPTION
Diff3 compares three versions of a file, and publishes disagreeing ranges of text flagged with these codes:
==== all three files differ
====1 file1 is different
====2 file2 is different
====3 file3 is different
The type of change suffered in converting a given range of a given file to some other is indicated in one of these ways:
f : n1 a Text is to be appended after line number n1 in file f, where f = 1, 2, or 3.
f : n1 , n2 c Text is to be changed in the range line n1 to line n2. If n1 = n2, the range may be abbreviated to n1.
The original contents of the range follows immediately after a c indication. When the contents of two files are identical, the contents of
the lower-numbered file is suppressed.
Under the -e option, diff3 publishes a script for the editor ed that will incorporate into file1 all changes between file2 and file3, i.e.
the changes that normally would be flagged ==== and ====3. Option -x (-3) produces a script to incorporate only changes flagged ====
(====3). The following command will apply the resulting script to `file1'.
(cat script; echo '1,$p') | ed - file1
The -E and -X are similar to -e and -x, respectively, but treat overlapping changes (i.e., changes that would be flagged with ==== in the
normal listing) differently. The overlapping lines from both files will be inserted by the edit script, bracketed by "<<<<<<" and ">>>>>>"
lines.
For example, suppose lines 7-8 are changed in both file1 and file2. Applying the edit script generated by the command
"diff3 -E file1 file2 file3"
to file1 results in the file:
lines 1-6
of file1
<<<<<<< file1
lines 7-8
of file1
=======
lines 7-8
of file3
>>>>>>> file3
rest of file1
The -E option is used by RCS merge(1) to insure that overlapping changes in the merged files are preserved and brought to someone's atten-
tion.
FILES
/tmp/d3?????
/usr/libexec/diff3
SEE ALSO diff(1)BUGS
Text lines that consist of a single `.' will defeat -e.
7th Edition October 21, 1996 DIFF3(1)