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I am surprised no one has pointed this out, but you might already know it:

1 - combine several log files into one file when it happens:
tail -f filename filename2 filename3 > logfile
This will...

Greetings.

I desperately need help to get my sendmail configuration working again.

I followed this guide:
Unmemorable Memories » Blog Archive » Enabling SMTP-AUTH for Sendmail on Debian Linux...

Completely valid mr. Cragun. I agree, too often I forget that the find command has a built in exec possibility and in this example it is valid, however it's not always valid if you for instance need...

So, I need to find a bunch of files and delete them (this example, but sometimes I need it for something else) and my trusty go-to command has always been:

find . -type f -name '*file*' | xargs...

Woohoo!! It works! You rock! Thanks a gazillion Scrutinizer!

+goodie points from Sweden!

I apologize Scrutinizer, I didn't know that.
But it still dosn't work?!?
find . -type f -regex '.*-[0-9]\{1,3\}\..*'
gives me zero results :( I am running this in /bin/bash under cygwin.
I also...

Neither of the above is working.

find . -type f -regex '.*[0-9]\{1,3\}}\..*'
Escapes the {-parentheses and thus makes them part of the name. I want to use them to specify how many of the numbers...

I am so frustrated!!!

I want a nice command that clears away duplicate files:

find . -type f -regex '.*[0-9]{1,3}\..*' | xargs -I## rm -v '##'

should work in my opinion. But it finds nothing...

Impressive!

It worked! :D

... but I got another problem :D

So, now it works with the primary copying, but the secondary copying has * in it, and that doesn't work now...
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Greetings.

I am trying to do a script that will do some file copying for me. Unfortunately I have spaces in the directory names (which I cannot change) and the result is someone hard to achieve in...