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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
So I'm grepping for the following right now:
ls -la /somedirectory/*.log* | awk '{print $9}'
The problem with this is that I get the following output:
/somedirectory/errors_1_foo.log
/somedirectory/errors_1_foo.log.1
/somedirectory/errors_1_foo.log.2... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: LinuxRacr
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
I'm looking for some help in renaming data-timestamps stored within different calendar directories/files.
The calendar directory has hundreds of ICS files:
~/Library/Calendars/F494C908.calendar/Events/92B65E439AAC.ics
~/Library/Calendars/F494C908.calendar/Events/DE7867E61969.ics... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: Schubi
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
hello,
I'm trying to figure out which tool is best for recursively renaming and files or folders using the characters \/*?”<>| in their name. I've tried many examples that use Bash, Python and Perl, but I'm not much of a programmer I seem to have hit a roadblock.
Does anyone have any... (15 Replies)
Discussion started by: prometheon123
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4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hello,
I have records like below that I want to remove any five characters from the end of the string before the double quotes unless it is only an asterik.
3919,5020 ,04/17/2012,0000000000006601.43,,0000000000000000.00,, 132, 251219,"*"
1668,0125 ... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: jyoung
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5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I have a group of files in different directories with characters such as " ? : in the file names. How do I find these files and remove these characters on mass?
Thanks (19 Replies)
Discussion started by: barrydocks
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a perl find program that will find all files of window application stored on unix disks.
Ofcourse these files contain all the weird characters windows allows, but on *nix pukes out all kinds of unwanted effects when processing these.
Is their a utility that will escape all these... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: karelb
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
I want to create a temp file which is named based on a search string. The search string may contain spaces or characters that aren't supposed to be used in filenames so I want to strip those out.
My thought was to use 'tr' with but the result is the opposite of what I want:
$ echo "test... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: mglenney
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
I'm creating a file in a script :
cat > ${SOURCEFILEPATH}/${FILENAME} <<!
blahblahblah
!
The file that is created has funny characters at the end:
^[[K
What is that and how can I get rid of it? (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: achieve
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
I have a requirement to search a directory, which contains any number of other directories for file names that contain special characters.
directory structure
DIR__
|__>DIR1
|__>DIR2__
|__>DIR2.1
|__>DIR2.2
|__>DIR3
..
... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: jerardfjay
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am writing a script to search PCL output and append more PCL data to the end accordingly.
I need to remove the last 88 bytes from the string.
I have searched for a few hours now and am coming up with nothing. I can't use head or tail because the PCL output is all on one line. awk crashes on... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: craig2k
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