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hi i know this is irrelevant to the question above but i was wondering how to pt a restriction in the filename in linux. I want that it is impossible to add numbers into the filename, help will be rely great , thanx!
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All!
Please can someone help, I have a dir with the following files:
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi, I need a bit of help.
I've used awk to get the first 7 characters of a file -
awk '{print substr($0,0,7)}' test.csv
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have following script to 'archive' some logfiles:
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
i need to replace the any special characters with escape characters like below.
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!@#$%^&*()-= to be replaced by
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
hi, I have quite a bunch of files with annoyingly long filenames. I wanted to cut the range of characters from 9-18 and just retain the first 8 characters and the .extension. any suggestion how to do it. thanks much.
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
It's my first time here... anyways, I have a simple problem with these filenames. This is probably too easy for you guys:
ABC_20101.2A.2010_01
ABD_20103.2E.2010_04
ABE_20107.2R.2010_08
Expected Output:
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The only pattern available are the ff:
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
I've got a file (numbers.txt) filled with numbers and I want to replace each one of those numbers with a new random number between 0 and 9. This is my script so far:
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
I am facing a weird problem. I have got a directory structure copied from windows to Linux. Some of the folders are named like
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi folks. None of the conventional methods are working for my dilemma:
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&
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