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Invisible characters 3 37 (3/31/2012 7:51:09 PM) comp.unix.shell Hi guys, I'm sorry if this is a stupid question - are there any stupid questions, really? - but I've come across a weird problem. Here's how it goes... I have a series of video files, which I am cataloging ... Aragorn

"Ambiguous redirect" message 7 33 (9/1/2011 4:09:12 AM) comp.unix.shell Hi guys, A while ago, somebody in another group - alt.os.linux.mandriva - was asking for a way to have KWrite - an editor that ships with KDE - open a file after the last character in the line, so that he co... Aragorn

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find/xargs substiution 54 32 (2/14/2013 12:00:21 PM) comp.unix.shell If I want to remove all files starting with "foo" in my directory I can do: find . -name foo.* | xargs rm '{}' or use -exec. What if I want to rename them to bar.* instead of removing them? I would no... mortonspam (827)

simple question about .profile and env. vars 3 23 (2/22/2013 4:53:25 AM) comp.unix.shell I am on a system where my login shell is C shell but I have access to the B= ourne shell. I also have a Bourne shell script that calls many different C= shell scripts which I am now re-writing as Bourne she... jackshown (61)

Monitoring tool / script manager 3 12 (2/26/2013 1:36:40 PM) comp.unix.shell Hi, I work on the console with GNU screen (or rather tmux), and I am looking for a monitoring tool. I found several (glances, nmon, etc.), but I am mostly interested by a very customizable and scriptable on... kax (41)

Regarding man CHMOD command #2 2 12 (2/27/2013 6:22:43 AM) comp.unix.shell Can someone please patiently explain the following man file for CHMOD with appropriate examples? I changed the permissions for my pendrive files and folders and for this I ran into man CHMOD and got the fol... bkpsusmitaa (30)

Reading the file coreutils.info.gz in GUI 7 14 (2/27/2013 6:51:53 AM) comp.unix.shell Dear friends, How can I read this file using an application that runs in GUI with rich formatting and colour highlights? [For example, like we read an html file in gedit with colour coding] The file, core... bkpsusmitaa (30)

Killing process via script 24 23 (3/5/2013 12:24:52 PM) comp.unix.solaris Hi, i want to kill a process using a simple shell script. the process do not write the process id to any file where i could read it from. so i tried the following. /usr/bin/kill `ps -ef | grep "mail-d... lassmichinruhe2 (23)

Which SSL is links using? 17 10 (3/9/2013 7:49:48 PM) comp.os.linux.networking This is still about gmail:smtp TLS/SSL. `links gmail.com` shows me the traces while it's 'doing SSL'. So that means my system HAS a working SSL system. `apropos ssl | wc -l` == 290 Plenty stuff !! That... Avoid9Pdf (29)

removing repeating/duplicate control char 6 22 (3/15/2013 7:31:58 PM) comp.unix.shell Hello, I have a text file where I need to get rid of a repeating control character, I have tried sed and tr but not getting the results I expect. The text file is as an example: ^M text here text here ... peter_sands (55)

Extract prompt/after data before processing in terminal 2 8 (3/24/2013 7:35:50 AM) comp.unix.shell Hi , i want to get the prompt data in the terminal before its processes by the s= hell and the output after its processed by the shell. For example if the user types in the terminal ls then i want it inter... meetpiyush2006 (2)

Mental-model of multiprocessing? 9 6 (3/27/2013 11:13:30 AM) comp.os.linux.networking For someone who knows the stacked-subroutine-calling mechanism [down to the silicon level], and resists the little-men-in-the-box mental model, it's difficult to UNDERSTAND how to build a script that: call... Avoid9Pdf (29)