This is a case for a mimimum match. With perl:
The *? is the minimum match, as opposed to the greedy *. /\*.*?\*/ is a minimum amount of (. = any) characters between /* and */.
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The following should even eliminate /* ... */ that span over multiple lines:
hi, i am on aix. i used smitty to remove a user..
but then found that its directory still exists....
so i have to remove the directory manually...
am i doing it the right way? (2 Replies)
hello,
Sometimes I need to remove all the files except one or more.I mean, there are 90 files and I want to remove 88 of them. how can i do that?is it possible to tell the "rm" command not to remove specified files? (4 Replies)
My file has varied width references:
width=10%
style=width:5%
width:1506%
width:99.58%
so I'm trying clear all the width calls with one procedure:
's/width= *%//' and 's/width=*%//'but neither is working. (6 Replies)
not sure what is this but any can help me delete this ^I
cat -A file.txt
CLAS^I^I|890^I|7,10,12,341,305,308,29,54^M$
LCLS^I^I|891^I|7,10,12,341,305,308,29,54^M$
MURB^I^I|892^I|7,10,12,341,305,308,29,54^M$
LATI^I^I|893^I|7,10,12,341,305,308,29,54^M$
i want to remove the ^I^I... (2 Replies)
Hi all,
I want to remove the remove bracket sign ( ) and put in the separate column I also want to remove the repeated entry like in first row in below input (PA156) is repeated
ESR1 (PA156) leflunomide (PA450192) (PA156) leflunomide (PA450192)
CHST3 (PA26503) docetaxel... (2 Replies)
Hi guys,
I need to write a script so that when i execute the "rm" command, the file mentioned need to be copied to other folder and then be deleted. this should be done in back ground. can you please help me out?? (1 Reply)
Had increased FS system size (sample_lv) on particular disks hdisk189 hdisk190 in a shared FS
but unfortunately given addnl size occupies the space on other disks hdisk78 hdisk40 too
In case, need to remove the addnl lv size occupied on hdisk78 hdisk40. How to achieve it. Pls advice.
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The bash below executes and does find all the .bam files in each R_2019 folder. However set -x shows that the .bam extension only gets removed from one .bam file in each folder (appears to be the last in each). Why is it not removing the extension from each (this is $SAMPLE)? Thank you :).
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