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Hi,

Am performing a find based on filename and result can contain multiple files being found
Let's say my find command is
find /Archive -f -name 12345.pdf

and result of find command is...

each line contains several tab-separated fields that determine what action script will perform. provided string is just one of these :)
am not overly concern about performance as whole processign is...

am parsing a tab delimited text file, one line at the time, your solution works fine, thank you for your help!

shell please

i have a string that am looking to extract all characters following 3 consecutiv numbers.
Example my string is J1705PEAN038TDMN, i need to get TDMN

My string can have multiple 3 consecutive...

thank you both for your help!

thank you for your reply, that does work nicely.
after runnign your command i realized that some of my lines start with a space before ", some with ", can you please update the command so it...

Hi there,

i do get some text files that i'd lile to clean them up based on following rule: if a line starts with " then remove return (new line, carriage return) before ".

Example, my input...

jim,

your suggestion does work but it's not quite i had in mind....
I'll provide additional details: let's assume that i want to change the behaviour of built-in ls command, where by typing:
ls...

Hi there,

i was presented with a challenge that is beyond my current shell knowledge: how can you have a script that executed interactive will change your current working directory?

Example...

i believe that i found the solution:
sed 's/^0*//'

thanks for your reply

Hi there,

i need some help to remove all occurrences of a certain character at the beginning of a string.
Example: my string is 00102030 and i want to remove all zeros from beginning of string so...

binlib,

thank you for your reply, your solution also works fine!

thank you! works perfect

Hi all

let's say i have a file named 1234_v2_abcd
i need to find the position of the character located after _v, in above case this would be character number 2
the count of the characters before...

thank you all, i'll take a look at that link.

date -d'MAY 01 2011' '+%A' appears to be an incorrect usage of date command... at least under macos 10.6

Hi all,

i am looking for a method of determining the weekday when date is know (bash, if possible).
Let's say that i am looking to get the weekday for MAY 01 2011, how can i convert this into...

sorry for the confusion

alister,

that's the difference between an amateur like me and a pro like you :) you need only 2 lines to complete a script

Corona688,

thank you but that didn't solve the issue with weird names within paths. files with names containing spaces (as an example) will be omitted from being joined, all other ones will be...

and how can i pass the correct paths if i have weird characters?

my bash script currently end like this:
/Scripts/Combine_PDFs_python.py -o /TEST`date +%H-%M-%S`.pdf "$all_PDFs"
and it this will output:
"/my_files/1.pdf" "/my_files/2.pdf"

if i add two lines...

Franklin52,

i tried that with same undesired result

my script is:

source_folder=/my_files
cd "$source_folder"
if [ "$(ls -A)" ]; then
for PDF_file in *
do
quoted_filename=\"$source_folder/$PDF_file\"
all_PDFs="$all_PDFs $quoted_filename"...

Hi!

I have a python script that requires arguments and these arguments are file paths. This script works fine when executed like this:
/my_python_script "file_path1" "file_path2"
(i added quotes...