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How can I create a file named "\?$*'ChouMi'*$?\"?
I need to create a file with this exact name "\?$*'ChouMi'*$?\" so that ls would show it as:
$ ls | cat -e
"\?$*'ChouMi'*$?\"$
$
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Converting multiline to single line in a file looses double quotes
Here is my sample file
cat test.txt
"IND WEB",
"Speed Web (Internal webserver)",
"Web Bill",
I tried the below two solutions to convert multiline to single line however ...
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I can see but cannot delete a file [closed]
I am running Linux Mint.I tried to copy a file with the file manager. It looked like it hung.
I can see the file in the directory with ls -l:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mike domain^users 20 Mar 1 08:57 'output (...
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ls -l seems to give one concatenation of the filenames found in a directory
I want to write a shellscript to convert all .ogg files in a directory to .mp3 files.
The filenames contain spaces, so I use a lot of double quotes in the sequenco of commands. The command I use is
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Find size of file names with space and hyphen | pass file names containing space and hyphen to "du" [duplicate]
I have a file, which contains the name of some files. I want to find the total size of files in the list.
#cat filelist
/tmp-directory/connector_db_ connector_db
/tmp-directory/connector_db -...
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Trying to use awk and the date command at the same time
I'm trying to use ls -l and filter only the files that were lastly modified in the current month.
I'm running: ls -l | awk '{if($6 == date +%b) print$0; and get a syntax error.
I've been looking ...
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How do I rename files that have '|' in them?
I am using Fedora 24.
I have tried many different ways to do this. I've tried it under a Windows VM with the folder in question as a shared folder.
I've tried using the 'rename' command.
I've ...
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Remove file with pound signs around it [duplicate]
I am using SSH to another terminal with very limited disk space. upon typing ls I see a file called #korpus.txt#. I suspect this file is an emacs buffer, but upon running emacs and trying to kill it ...
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swap strings of text inside vim using regex
I am working with a file where I need to swap "string A" and "String B's" locations simultaneously with a regex inside the vim. Here is an example line of code:
succ_1st=`grep 'resulted in successful ...
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Duplicate a file with random probability
I have a directly full of images and I am trying to put together a script/command that will randomly copy (with some probability) the image to a location with a random name at that destination (...
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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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Creating an empty file having a variable name in a script
I need to create an empty file using a shell script. The filename will be determined by examining all the files in a directory matching a pattern, say TEST.*, and appending _END to it so that the new ...
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