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Bash [[ test =~ regex ]] vs perl command result

Is the bash operator =~ equivalent to a perl invocation? filename="test-33.csv" regex="([^.]+)(-\d{1,5})(\.csv)" With bash test: if [[ "$filename" =~ $regex ]]; then ...
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How to find the "pattern" in FASTA file and record the cordinates along with header

I am looking for a solution to search for a string of 17 base pairs in the FASTA file that is the human reference genome. To clarify, in simple words and put the resources, i have tried grep function ...
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Perl RexEx Replace locks Apache access_log

I wanted to clean up my apache server logs, remove all the 301, 404, and so on, and after trying and failing with sed, I used Perl, which worked wonderfully, except... Then Apache no longer logs ...
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Remove the file name from a messy path in a text file awk or sed

I have an xml file with many lines containing something like this: Save="C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\my files\1020\A54f\Drawing965.DWG" Module="0" Save="C:\Users\...
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Need to autoincrement directory names but by avoiding some letters in the name

My script creates a set of directories aa, ab, ac, and so on This script autoincrement directory names but I want to avoid the letters: I, O, P, Q, R, W while creating directories. The script which I ...
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Sending args from bash to perl

I eally need help I would like to send args from bash file to perl file. I dont know why it is not working for me. My code foe testing is bellow *******bash code ********* #!/usr/bin/env bash chmod +...
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How to make fork() fail?

For a script I'm writing, it's important to properly handle a failed fork() (see https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2014/08/19/fork/ for the Why). But how, without bringing my system down with processes, ...
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Perl/Bash Solution to Test if a Folder Has Changed, Then Create Copy of It

I'd like to put together a script for a very rudimentary backup system that checks a directory recursively for any changes since the date another directory (the backup) was created and, if it finds ...
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Regex to substitute character with numbers around it in filenames with rename utility (perl based)

I would like to rename files that have the following format: somethingblabla15T06:58_31+0000somethingblabla.bla THe new name should be somethingblabla15T06:58:31+0000somethingblabla.bla So the _ ...
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sed + how to replace numbers with parenthesis with sed/awk/other

we want to relapse the [1023,1024,1022] as described in the following file , with [1022] more file.exm {"topic":"nj_hgf_dfgef","partition":0,"replicas":[1023,1024,1022]}, {"topic":"nj_hgf_dfgef","...
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awk + print lines only if second field match hours:min:sec

log file is like this 34.3.23.58 07:20:01 AM all 0.02 0.00 0.02 0.00 0.00 99.97 34.3.23.58 07:30:01 AM all 0.02 ...
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perl: warning: Setting locale failed. Centos 6.9

I am receiving the following error message on my Centos linux server for past 15 days. perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = "...
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How to globally replace programming code using literal input files?

I will use HTML as an example. But it could be any programming code for any language. This comes up often enough, it would be useful to deal with the literal text code to search and replace. This is ...
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Named capture groups from command line

I've come up with the following regular expression: \[release(\s+(?<release_type>.*))?\]\n+(?<release_notes>.*) The idea is to parse a commit message for several params: [release minor] ...
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Missing site_perl and vendor_perl in bash shell

Whenever I use the terminal in Manjaro KDE, I get a message: bash: /bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin/site_perl:/usr/bin/vendor_perl:/usr/bin/core_perl: No such file or directory ...
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