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C-Shell - stripping wildcards from user input
I am trying to strip wildcards from user input text in a c-shell script.
I realize that the shell automatically expands all wildcards prior to storing the data.
Is there a way to isolate the non-...
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In Bash, the `*` is no longer expanded before passing into a command? [duplicate]
Is it different from C-shell? I remember in C-shell, when we do
echo *
then the * is actually expanded by C-shell to all filenames in the current directory, so echo really doesn't need to do ...
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/bin/ls: Argument list too long
I am a biology person and running a program named autodock. I have some files from ZINC library in .mol2 format. As per requirement I need to split this files with the csplit command and I received ...
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Odd alias "find . -name '*\!{*}*' -ls" in Unix Power Tools
From Unix Power Tools 3rd Edition page 175:
Article 9.27 shows a way to match directories in the middle of a path. Here's a simpler "find file" alias that can come in very handy:
alias ff &...
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List files in hierarchy of directory
I need to list files in hierarchy of directory. For that I wrote script like
foreach file ( * )
ls ${file}/*/*/*/*/*.root > ${file}.txt
end
But for this I have to know that in the directory ${...
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C Shell: different actions depending on the file type
I very new to C Shell. I am trying to read a file from the command line, and determine whether it's a zip file, a .txt, a symbloic link, a pipe, or whatever ("unknown").
Then I'd like to execute a ...
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Will a '*' (star) in globbing match only characters (i.e , a-z and 0-9)?
I havie a simple question here: does a * (star wildcard) match only characters (letters and numbers) in glob style? Or will it also match special characters?
In bash, * matches everything, while in ...
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