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wget recursive with files without extension
I'm not very good with Linux so I have maybe a basic question. I've search around for the "how to" and I couldn't find anything.
I'm trying to get a site with wget. The problem is that it:
Have ...
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Modifying zsh globbing patterns to use with cp
I'm trying to write a script to copy files recursively from a particular folder except files A.extn, B/*.extn and C/* where B and C are directories and extn is just some generic extension. This is ...
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How to find files ending with ~ and pyc? [duplicate]
I want to find all files (in current and all subdirectory) which end in'~' or 'pyc'. To do so I have tried the following find pattern:
find . -name '*{~,pyc}'
find . -name '{*~,*.pyc}'
but neither ...
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Pattern matching on path names in bash
I want to act on a list of subdirectories in a directory. Consider:
for x in x86-headers/*/C/populate.sh; do echo $x; done
This gives
x86-headers/elf/C/populate.sh
x86-headers/gl/C/populate.sh
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Counting the number of files with in a diectory with a pattern but pattern dosen't know [closed]
To count the files in a directory having some pattern for some files, but we don't know the pattern, then How to count than particular pattern files?
For Example
If a directory has xx_1.txt, ...
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Pattern matching exception for shell script
So I have the following shell script for batch renaming the episodes of some given TV series:
#!/bin/bash
#script for renaming files of form "*01*.ext" to "Episode 01.ext";
counter=0
for all_files in ...
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How do we specify multiple ignore patterns for `tree` command?
I need to print the directory structure of our production system and I would like to remove some specific directories from the tree?
How do we specify multiple ignore patterns for tree command?
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awk extended pattern matching (embedding pattern matching in actions for already matched strings) [closed]
I want handle strings of the form:
PREFIX_TYPE_N,DATA
So, does the *awk (gawk, mawk, nawk) support including pattern matching in the action for already matched string? Something like this (of ...
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What is the .gitignore pattern equivalent of the regex (Big|Small)(State|City)-[0-9]*\.csv
I have a regex I stuck in my .gitignore similar to:
(Big|Small)(State|City)-[0-9]*\.csv
It didn't work so I tested it against RegexLab.NET.
I then found the gitignore man page which led me to ...
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Pattern Matching Exclude Duplicate Characters
Is there a regular expression for the following that matches characters in a character set but only once? In other words, once a character is found, remove it from the set.
If grep cannot do this, ...
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Is there some kind of “patterns” when coding bash scripts?
In Java, we have Javadoc and some different styles when programming. In Python, there's pep8.
I'm creating some bash scripts for my own use, and would like to know from you, experienced bash users, ...
