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How to prevent double escaping?
I'm trying to put a bunch of images together into a pdf. I ran gm convert *.jpg out.pdf and it worked, but the images were not in the right order.
I found that ls -v orders them correctly so then I ...
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Why doesn't 'find' show this file? [duplicate]
Using find with grep, one can locate files that match a pattern:
# find | grep error
./solr-modifiedSolr4/SolrPhpClient/phpdocs/errors.html
./error_log
./includes/classes/error_log
However, using ...
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How can we rename a file with semi-colon as part of the filename?
I tried to rename all file with extension "XLS;1" to "XLS" but it just didn't work.
I tried the following in cygwin in windows xp and they don't work:
mv *.XLS;1 *.XLS
mv *.XLS\;1 *.XLS
mv "*.XLS;...
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find not recursive when given a pattern on the command line
Imagine a source tree. There are xml files everywhere.
But since there is a XYZ.xml at the root of this tree it won't find my xml files.
find -iname *.xml
returns
./XYZ.xml
instead of
./XYZ.xml
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