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How to add a newline to the end of a file?
Using version control systems I get annoyed at the noise when the diff says No newline at end of file.
So I was wondering: How to add a newline at the end of a file to get rid off those messages?
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array[@] output all messed up?
I've got this code:
Unix+=("Stock List")
while read line; do
result=$(wget -O - -o /dev/null "http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=$line&f=sl1&e=.csv" | tr ',' ' ' | tr '"' ' ')
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concatenate two files without adding a newline
If I nano two files, one of which reads 'this' without me entering a newline, and one of which reads 'is' without me entering a newline, I want to be able to then cat the two files together into ...
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Removing all spaces, tabs, newlines, etc from a variable?
This is the error I am getting and it's failing because of a variable whose value is supposed to be 2 (I am getting this using a select * from tabel).
I am getting spaces in that variable.
+ 0 !=
...
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Collapsing a stream of multiple lines into one line
I have a file containing a a large number of lines, each of which contains a bunch of numbers which are separated by spaces. I process this data in a pipe in some way, and then I want to collapse the ...
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Finding all “Non-Binary” files
Is it possible to use the find command to find all the "non-binary" files in a directory? Here's the problem I'm trying to solve.
I've getting an archive of files from a windows user. This archive ...
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Character count in Unix wc command
When I give wc command on a file with contents given below, it gives the number of characters as 30. Does it include the end of file character? Since including the space and newline there are only 29 ...
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Does input redirection (<) append a newline character?
I was originally of the impression that
$ ./myprog
moo[CTRL-D]
is exactly the same as
$ echo moo > cow
$ ./myprog < cow
But I found that myprog always counts one more \n in the second ...
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How to skip file in sed if it contains regex?
I currently use the following simplified command to remove trailing whitespace and add a newline at end of file where needed:
find . -type f -exec sed -i -e 's/[ \t]\+\(\r\?\)$/\1/;$a\' {} \+
As ...
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view file containing ISO-8859 text, CRLF line terminators, and escape sequences
I have stumbled upon a strange text file in an archive of an old dos game downloaded from some abandonware site.
The text file is named WHY_NOT.TXT. I assume the file is some sort of .NFO file from ...
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2answers
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Removing consecutive newlines with ed
Input file:
1 line1\
2 line2\
3 line3\
4 \
5 line4\
6 \
7 \
8 line5\
Desired output:
1 line1
2 line2
3 line3
4
5 line4
6
7 line5
Is it possible with POSIX ed?
Removing the trailing backslashes ...
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Insert newlines with vim
How to insert newlines in vim?
For example in a file containing
test-classes; classes; xmlunit-1.3.jar
I am looking for the vim equivalent of sed command
sed -i 's/; /\n/g' classpath
to obtain
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2
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1answer
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How to `tee` dropping all CR lines only in the file but not stdout?
When using e.g. rsync, I'd like to tee its output such that I can both view the current progress live, and have a log for later. Using just piping | tee logfile the logfile will contain many lines à ...
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Carriage return issue
I have this in a bash script
DAY2="20130605"<Cr>
echo "This is yesterday date:"$DAY2"end"
Why is the output the following? It seems as though there is a carriage return in DAY2 but where is ...
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How to read '\n' into variable with Bash's built-in command?
Somehow I'm not able to read the trailing \n sign into the REPLY variable. Under any circumstances I want to avoid a blank line that results from the \n being echoed by read but echo one in case of ...
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Why is it that , to newline is working but newline to , is not working sed?
I have got a text file with a list of first names, and I am trying to replace newline with ,.
Here is the command I am using
sed 's/\
/,/g' file
while the reverse is working
sed 's/,/\
/g' file
...
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How to bulk convert all the file in a file system branch between Unix and Windows line break format?
Everybody knows :-) that in Windows plain text files lines are terminated with CR+LF, and in Unix&Linux - with LF only. How can I quickly convert all my source code files from one format to ...
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Directories are listed twice
I have something odd.
I creates some directories using a very simple script :
... create all directories ( running under a user that has the correct rights )
e.g :
mkdir -p ...
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1answer
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How can I preserve new lines coming from a command's output during variable assignment?
Consider:
$ getfacl somefile.dat # The output is formatted and contains several new lines..
# file: somefile.dat
# owner: user1
# group: group1
user::rw-
group::r-- #effective:r--
...
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How to detect dos format files in git bash
Git Bash is a nice bash shell you get in Windows as part of the installation of Git. It comes with other typical unix tools bundled inside, such as grep, sed, awk, perl. It doesn't have the file ...
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Script failing with “command not found: ^M”
When I try to run the following script in zsh, via the command /bin/zsh ~/.set_color_scheme.sh I get the following error:
command not found: ^M
The script has u+x permissions and it used to work on ...
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Make VIM act as Notepad++ on mixed line endings
I've googled all around and found tons of weird solutions to ^M problem, but couldn't find one and simple: how could I just open any file, like in Notepad++ and work on it? I don't want to mess with ...
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what is the best way to convert CRLF to LF and the viceversa for C++ files in my project [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to bulk convert all the file in a file system branch between Unix and Windows line break format?
which is the best tool to convert the CRLF to LF for my project in ...
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What does this “matching lines means”?
The grep manual says "By default, grep prints the matching lines.". What does this matching lines says. When I tried its prints the whole paragraph containing the pattern.
