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1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I am a TA for a computer science course and we have a program that flags code that appears to the same as other code that is supplied. In order for the program to check all of the student's programs, the programs all need to be named exactly the same. However, students don't like to follow... (12 Replies)
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2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I want to rename several files like this:
example:
A0805120817.BHN
A0805120818.BHN
.....
to:
20120817.0805.N
20120818.0805.N
......
How can i do this via terminal or in shell bash script ?
thanks, (6 Replies)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
I am using following command:
perl program.pl input.txt output.txt CUTOFF 3 > groups_3.txt
containing program.pl, two files (input.txt, output.txt) and getting output in groups_3.txt:
But, I wish to have 30 files corresponding to each CUTOFF ranging from 0 to 30 using the same... (1 Reply)
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4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I'm currently only able to perform some very basic functions, so hope this makes sense...
I have a set of about 27 files that need to be renamed from something like this:
000012ABCDEFGHIJ.XXX.YYY.ZZZ
000078KLMNO.XXX.YYY.ZZZ
000099PQ.XXX.YYY.ZZZ
to something like this:
newa012.abc... (11 Replies)
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hey guys. I know pratically 0 about Linux, so could anyone please give me instructions on how to accomplish this ?
The distro is RedHat 4.1.2 and i need to find and replace a multiple lines string in several php files across subdirectories.
So lets say im at root/dir1/dir2/ , when i execute... (12 Replies)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hey all,
I'm running a BASH shell and I was wondering if anyone knows a code to rename all the files in a directory. All I need to do is change the first character in the file from uppercase to lowercase and some of the files are already lowercase so they don't need to change.
-Thanks (4 Replies)
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello friends,
I have find a paticular string from the files present in my user
for example:
a username and password is hardcoded in multiple files which present in the my user.so I have to search about username in which files it is available.there are several dirctories are there,so... (5 Replies)
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Being new to this area .I have been assigned a task which i am unable to do . Can any one please help me .
Hi I have requirement where i have input file XYZ_111_999_YYYYMMDD_1.TXT and with header and series of Numbers and Footer.
I want to create a mutiple output files with each file having a... (2 Replies)
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
filenames:
contains name of list of files to search in.
placelist
contains the names of places to be searched in all files in "filenames"
for i in $(<filenames)
do
egrep -f placelist $i
if ]
then
echo $i
fi
done >> outputfile
Output i am getting: (0 Replies)
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I copied some files to another folder, and I want to change them from .doc extensions to .txt extensions. I tried using the cp and mv commands, but it didn't work. Is it possible to change file extensions with these commands, and if so how do I do it? I tried using the * wildcard (say cp *.doc... (1 Reply)
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