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Copy array of multiple files with globbed extensions, in bash 3.2
I've found bits and pieces of each of the things I want to do across the Web, but nothing exactly fits my use case.
I'm trying to write a script that copies multiple specific files to a directory on ...
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grep .* returns results from .bash_history and complains about
I'm new to Linux and so far I've been playing around with some utilities, specifically the grep utility. I decided to create a new file (aptly called 'newfile') with the following content:
Lady of ...
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Bash substitution with variable defined from a glob pattern
The below example explains the issue. Why is the FILENAME printed correctly when echoed and perceived as a pattern when using substitution?
#!/bin/bash
FILEPATH_WITH_GLOB="/home/user/file_*"
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tar exclude files *.zip
Why don't *.zip patterns work in tar :
tar cfjv backup.tar.bz2 --exclude mydir/files/*.zip mydir
Is there another syntax?
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scp command behaves differently when used with expect utility
expect -c 'spawn scp -C -o CompressionLevel=9 ~/partFiles/* [email protected]:/export/home/abc/; sleep 10; expect password; send "secretPassword\n";interact'
throws - ~/partFiles/*: No such file or ...
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how to locate a name-not-specified file in bash? [closed]
I have a bash like this to easily upload a file to my server:
FILE=../"$1"/1.txt
scp 1.txt remoteserver #upload the file to a remote server.
The $1 is for input directory and I have a lot of ...
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Passing wildcard * to a (bash?) script [duplicate]
I want to to remove all color codes which look like '@n', '@R' etc, from a moderately large size collection of text files.
So in a file called 'remove_cc', I wrote the following:
sed -ie 's/@r//g' $...
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Bash script error with strings with paths that have spaces and wildcards
I am having trouble getting the basics of Bash scripting down. Here's what I have so far:
#!/bin/bash
FILES="/home/john/my directory/*.txt"
for f in "${FILES}"
do
echo "${f}"
done
All I want to ...
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Problems with basename in a loop
I am new at shell script programming and I'm trying to execute a software that reads a text and perform it's POS tagging. It requires an input and an output, as can be seen in the execute example:
$ ...
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ImageMagick on multiple files
I have converted a single file from BMP to PNG with ImageMagick's convert using the command below
convert CD\ Front.bmp CD\ Front.png
I have many such files, thus I tried:
for f in */*.bmp ; do ...
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Why does copying from a script screw with my files?
I am at a loss here, trying to find out the reason why a shell script that is basically copying a couple of files and directories from one place to another will result in the content of two of the ...
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Delete all files starting with a question mark
I have a folder in which I have around 4k files. Some of these files start with a a ? or ! character. I need to delete them but can't find an expression that would do so:
rm -f ./?*
just deletes ...
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What is the difference between "*.pl" and *.pl in grep? Why does quoting change the result?
What is the difference between:
grep "string" . -r --include *.pl
and
grep "string" . -r --include "*.pl"
The latter includes files in subdirectoried while the former not. Why?
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Very strange behavior with grep and IFS
I'm having trouble using grep, the returned results are "n-empty", I mean without the 'n' character...
This is the script sample :
OLDIFS=$IFS
IFS="\\n"
i=$(grep -ril $1 *)
echo $i
IFS=$OLDIFS
I ...
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Wildcards inside quotes
This will be an easy one, but in my memories, when shell scripting, using double quotes would allow expanding globbing and variables.
But in the following code:
#!/bin/sh
echo *.sh
echo "*.sh"
echo ...
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