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I want to search a bunch of files and list only those containing a minimum number of pattern matches. So if I want to identify files containing 3 (or more) instances of the pattern "said:" and I...

I'll try and explain. Machine A has 2 hard disks with a total of 4 partitions, I boot machine A with my thumbdrive, the O/S automatically writes an fstab reflecting the partitions on machine A. ...

I have created a thumbdrive with a bootable version of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, it uses Grub legacy.

One of the issues I have is that everytime I boot a new system from the thumbdrive, it writes entries...

Thanks Corona...it works very well

I have a large system housekeeping script, that I want to use with zenity.
One of the processes will be to conduct a virus scan, which I can easily do with something like:

clamscan -rv / |...

Thanks for the replies, so far.

The problem isn't manually mounting partitions, the problem is the O/S reading the fstab at boot. I need the system to either stop reading the fstab at boot or...

I have created a bootable thumbdrive containing Ubuntu 10.04. It works fine, but has one minor issue. When I boot a system, it writes a new fstab relevant to that system. That fstab persists, so...

Hi radoulov

Thanks very much for the help. I have no knowledge of perl, hence I went with bash. Your code was correct based on the information that I gave you.
I noticed some problems with...

I have a large csv file that looks like this:



The 3rd field is a unix time stamp that I want to convert to human readable.
I wrote a bash script with this code:


IFS=$','
cat $1 | while...

Thanks Scott, that works great, but why don't you have to escape the closing sqaure bracket? The opening bracket is escaped...so why not the closing square bracket?

I have a text file that contains ascii text. Each line contains square brackets with text inside. I want to remove the square brackets AND the text inside them. So the lines of text look like...

I have a text file, a sample of which is as follows:

r/- * 0: WINDOWS/Microsoft.NET/Framework/v2.0.50727/ASP.NETWebAdminFiles/Images/headerGRADIENT_Tall.gif
r/- * 0: ...

Thanks squire! No amount of googling and book reading would have lead me to coming up with that solution any time soon.

Thanks again

Thanks for the reply. I was thinking that the file name would stay the same but just increment by [1], [2] etc. So if 3 files called 10.jpg were found on the filesystem, they would be called...

I want to find graphic files on an external disk then create soft links to those files in a folder on my machine. I have a problem with file names: if there are two graphic files in different...

I am trying to figure out how to write a bash script to process a file in order to make it more user readable. The file to be processed is quite uniform, every line starts with a 32 bit Unix...

As part of an audit at work I need to review a lot of Windows workstations. One thing I need to do is review all of the .doc files. My problem is that I guessed a number of these files would be...

It works great...thanks very much!

Thanks again, Shell_Life

When executed, the script prints a number of lines similar to:

New file = /home/usr/photos/00000021_254.jpg

However, when I go to the /home/usr/photos directory,...

Thanks for the reply Shell_Life. It seems that your solution re-names each file in each directory, however, it still creates duplicate file names across directories. For instance, my first...

I am trying to write a housekeeping bash script. Part of it involves searching all of my attached storage media for photographs and moving them into a single directory. The problem occurs when...