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1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi Everybody! First post! Totally noobie.
I'm using the terminal to read a poorly formatted book.
The text file contains, in the middle of paragraphs, hyphenation to split words that are supposed to be on multiple pages. It looks ve -- ry much like this.
I was hoping to use grep -v " -- "... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: AxeHandle
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
I want to know how can I remove all the tabs (\t) from a tab delimited file. In my file some of the rows only contain one column and rest are unoccupied but the tabs are there. When I performed some regular expressions to do substitutions like:
%s/\t/\/\/ /ig
all the hidden tabs are converted... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: Lucky Ali
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3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I am trying to get this to display vertically like in a table but it keeps jumping to a new line
dev=$(df -h | grep ^/dev | cut -d " " -f1)
dev1=$(df -h | grep ^/dev | cut -f 2 -d "%")
dev2=$(df -h | grep ^/dev | cut -f 14-16 -d " ")
dev3=$(df -h | grep ^/dev | cut -f 18-20 -d " ")... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: gjanisse
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4. Linux
Hi Guys
i current use Kcosole i have this liitle code that changes the tilte to the current directory that i am in
# Set the terminal title to pwd
case $TERM in
xterm*)
precmd() {print -Pn "\e]0;%~ \a"}
;;
esac
in Kconsole you can have... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: ab52
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have a file that has too many tabs between columns. I cannot get the tabs out. Basically the tab between column 1 and 2 are fine but between 2/3, 3/4 etc are like 5 tabs. How do I get rid of these 5 tabs so its just 1 tab.
thanks (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: phil_heath
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6. UNIX and Linux Applications
Hi People,
Does gvim latest versions support tabs. I would like to open different files in tabs rather than new windows or split windows. I would like to whether the current version supports it, if it doesn't then how to add such feature.
Thanks,
:) (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: rimser9
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
When formatting a script let's say for instance the following:
case ${choice} in
1)
vi ${tmp1}.tmp
# overwrite the tmp1 var with any user changes
cp ${tmp1}.tmp ${tmp1}
;;
... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: llsmr777
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi Everyone,
Im trying to write a shell script that removes a "newline character followed by a tab" throughout a file. basically it should get rid of it. Here's an example
File Before
The cat sat on the
mat
File After
The cat sat on the mat
This message writing screen has... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: nbvcxzdz
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I am on AIX 5.1
If I have a crontab that looks like this
01 1 * * 6
What does the 6 mean ? if the * means that everyday it should run then why would the 6th day be signified ? Shouldn't it be a * also?
Thanks (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: rocker40
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