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Very strange behavior with grep and IFS
I'm having trouble using grep, the returned results are "n-empty", I mean without the 'n' character...
This is the script sample :
OLDIFS=$IFS
IFS="\\n"
i=$(grep -ril $1 *)
echo $i
IFS=$OLDIFS
...
6
votes
1answer
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Wildcards inside quotes
This will be an easy one, but in my memories, when shell scripting, using double quotes would allow expanding globbing and variables.
But in the following code:
#!/bin/sh
echo *.sh
echo "*.sh"
echo ...
1
vote
1answer
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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 ...
17
votes
1answer
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Why doesn't 'find' show this file?
Using find with grep, one can locate files that match a pattern:
# find | grep error
./solr-modifiedSolr4/SolrPhpClient/phpdocs/errors.html
./error_log
./includes/classes/error_log
However, using ...
1
vote
3answers
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How can we rename a file with semi-colon as part of the filename?
I tried to rename all file with extension "XLS;1" to "XLS" but it just didn't work.
I tried the following in cygwin in windows xp and they don't work:
mv *.XLS;1 *.XLS
mv *.XLS\;1 *.XLS
mv ...
