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Filter a list of strings using math

I have a directory with files listed like so: abc201303130110.txt abc201303140511.txt abc201303150112.txt As you can see, the filename contains a datetime stamp. I want to return all files with the ...
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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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Reading a directory in shell script

I want to read a numbered directory which is under a path, into a variable in shell script. The paths are something like this: .../releases/R1/... .../releases/R2/... .../releases/R3/... Each time ...
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What is the significance of the dot in bash commands and how is it different from an asterisk?

I'm trying to understand the significance of the dot in bash and how it differs from an asterisk. Can someone please elaborate? For example, what's the difference between cp -ar /foo/. /foo2/ and cp ...
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How to put the specific files from a directory in an array in bash?

Suppose I have a directory under which there are 3 files named: file1.txt,file2.txt and file3.txt. Now how can I fill an array with those file names(I just know that all the files have certain ...
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Glob with Numerical Order

I have this list of pdf files in a directory: c0.pdf c12.pdf c15.pdf c18.pdf c20.pdf c4.pdf c7.pdf c10.pdf c13.pdf c16.pdf c19.pdf c2.pdf c5.pdf c8.pdf c11.pdf c14.pdf c17.pdf c1.pdf ...
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How do I extract all .htaccess files from a tarball?

I want to extract all .htaccess files from a tarball, how can I do so? I see only one mention of "include" in the manual page of tar which is not related with an option for including only certain ...
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Selecting latest files and grouping by name

I have a directory containing files of the following name structure. <device>.<yyyy-mm-dd-hh-mm-ss> I am working on a script that will retain the the last X copies of these ...
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Find files without a number

I am trying to write a simple script that will iterate through all drives except sda. Right now I have this for i in $(find /dev/ -name "sd*" ! -name "sda*") do echo $i done However this ...
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shopt -s nocaseglob is not working on Ubuntu

Case insensitive file name globbing is not working in bash on Ubuntu 11.04 64bit. The shell options specified in .bashrc are as follows: shopt -s nocaseglob shopt -s nocasematch shopt also shows ...
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returning strings corresponding to shell glob matching

Suppose I have a subdirectory called sub. Then I want to operate on all files in that directory with the extension "txt". I want something like for f in sub/*.txt do enscript -b "" -o {$f ...