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How to create a user account on a Linux desktop machine with restrictions on connecting to the LAN, WAN, PCMCIA ports, Firewire, CDROM and generally any user controllable output options?

I have...

works like a charm!

very subtle! it replaces the dashes with underscore and renames the files with the number supplied in the right column.
many, many thanks!!!

may I ask you what the "system"...

Anyway if your file looks like that second example, then this should work: awk '{f=$1;sub("-.*\\.","."$2".",$1);system("mv "f" "$1)}' file-with-filenames[/QUOTE]

1/ thanks!

2/ yes, the file...

I have to rename a large number of files so that the name of each file corresponds to a code number that is given side by side in a list (textfile).
The list contains in column A the filename of the...

I also tried

awk ' /[[:digit:]]/ { print $1 } ' repfile

but $1 or $2 only map to "words", whichmeans those digit squences that have some separator or blank, therefore only some or the desired...

Hello and thank you both for the answers.
I apologise for the delay in my answer but been overwhelmed with tasks lately. It is now time to turn to this project and finish off.

I have tried both...

Ken, many thanks for that.

I did try the command, and it removes most characters trailing AFTER the number, except "_" underscore; however the characters BEFORE the digit pattern are still there,...

Hi guys,

I have a text file report generated from egrepping multiple files.
The text files themselves are obtianed after many succesive refinements, so they contain already the desired number,...