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Hello,

Thanks SO much! It does work!
Unfortunately, I don't understand every step. May I ask for explanations?
In particular: IAm=${0##*/}
I have never seen this. If I echo $IAm the output is...

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If you've got Umlaute from a windows machine, they won't be Umlaute on a *nix machine any more, esp. if that machine uses the unicode encoding.


I thought so too but I could not rename...

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I am a bit shocked. It's been a while since I have programmed but usually my programs worked in the end. Have I really forgotten everything?

Anyways, here is what I wanna do:
I have...

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I want to rename folders and the respective files in those folders. Problem: both, folders and files, contain funny characters: umlauts and spaces and special characters.



Yes, I do...

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I have trouble using the find command (I am working on Mac OSX).


for i in *.pdf
do
if find . -name "EV"
then
mv "$i" E-test.pdf
elif find . -name "GV"
then
mv "$i"...

Thanks a lot. I was close:

echo "Name_Firstname" | cut -d _ 1


tempestas

Hello,

I do have folders containing having funny strings in their names and one space.
First, I do remove the funny strings and replace the space by an underscore.

find . -name '* *' | while...

Hi ctsgnb,

I just tried your code on the entire input file: it doesn't work. For some reason it only works if I use the short example lines that you used. As soon as I add some more lines in the...

Hi ctsgnb,

thanks a lot for your effort!
But at which point can I insert the condition that the next line has to start with textb? Sorry for that question, but your code seems so complex to me...

Hi ctsgnb,

thanks a lot for your effort! The code seems quite complicated. Actually, I do not understand what is done. Can you explain it a little bit so that I learn something?
And one question:...

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sorry, I thought the longer examples help to better understand the structure, because the input files are a mess, but they are given to me like that.
I shortened the examples in my former...

Hi birei,

thanks a lot for your comments! Sorry, if it's not really clear what I meant. I'll try to improve that:


Sorry, my mistake: it should be called "insert.txt". I changed that in my...

Hello,

I need to insert varying lines (i.e. these lines are an output of another script) between lines starting with certain fields.
An example to make it more clear.

This is the file where I...

Well, what I actually wanna do is a little more complex:

I have many files like the example file.

First, I wanna call specific files, i.e. they contain a certain string in their file names....

Thanks vgersh99!
What a stupid mistake that I made :o

But, still, i f I try to implement that in variable it does not work:
findpicline=`awk 'NR >= awkv1 && NR <= awkv2'...

Hi all,

I'll try to get a result from a search with "awk" into a variable.
It works for those examples:

findfirstline=`awk 'BEGIN{ mycount = 1 } { if(mycount == 1 && /^Video/){ row=NR; print...

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sorry for the late reply. I had to install nawk in order to run the script.

Thanks vgersh99 for the script! It works (as you probably know). But actually, I do not fully understand how it...

Hello,

I spent all day trying to write a script and cannot find the solution :(

I have plenty files looking like this:

several hundred
lines precede
the following interesting
Bla xxx:...