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rsync certain files, excluding the rest, ignoring .svn/ directory, recursively

I'm using rsync to copy some files from a share to another. Recursively, I need to: Delete files at destination that were removed from the origin Only sync php and js files Exclude every other file ...
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bash - reading user variable into bash script grep

I've tried every possible combination to get this bash script working. It's part of a larger script, and it basically prompts for a username (to check if it exists) and returns the appropriate ...
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difference between .* and * in regular Expression

I've a file named "test" that contains linux Unixlinux Linuxunix it's linux l...x now when i use grep '\<l.*x\>' , it matches : linux it's linux l...x but when i use grep '\<l*x\>' ...
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Why is this Bash command using regex not replacing my brackets?

I have this command to go through all my files in my Music directory, and all subdirectories, and replace any square brackets in the file name with rounded brackets: find /home/Music/ -depth -name "* ...
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Regular Expression for finding double characters in Bash

I am looking for a regular expression that finds all occurences of double characters in a text, a listing, etc. on the command line (Bash). Main Question: Is there a simple way to look for sequences ...
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Regular expression problem(s) in Bash: [^negate] doesn't seem to work

When I execute ls /directory | grep '[^term]' in Bash I get a regular listing, as if the grep command is ignored somehow. I tried the same thing with egrep, I tried to use it with double and single ...
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Check some property for every line of a file

I have several (427 to be precise) text files with a million lines each containing 31 numbers separated be spaces (possible double spaces). However there might be some data corruption and there may be ...
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find command with regex {1,2}

I have been trying to create a find command string that will find all files that end with a number 1-99 but exclude all others. e.g. I want to find myfile1 myfile99 but not myfile456 and not ...
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regex, only the first occurence

I have a pipelined output from free -o -m | awk '{print $4}' I want take step by step two numbers the first and the second line. So i need two regexes. I tried with ^[0-9]{1,3}$ but this match all ...
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Find files in multiple folder names

I am trying to list all the files from dir1, dir2, dir3 and dir4 which might be anywhere in as a sub directory of my cwd using the find command. I tried the following with no success: find . -type f ...
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How can I find matches with sed (or similar) for configuration parameters?

I'm pretty good at using php's preg_match (and similar) commands, and I'm also pretty good with regular expressions, but I don't do very well with sed. I have two shell scripts I'm working on and I'd ...
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What is the difference between [[ $a == z* ]] and [ $a == z* ]?

Is there is any difference between these two. [[ $a == z* ]] and [ $a == z* ] Can I have an example where they would have different outputs? Furthermore, how does the working of [[ ]] differs ...
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Print lines where first field has only four characters using regex in awk?

John Goldenrod:(916) 348-4278:250:100:175 Chet Main:(510) 548-5258:50:95:135 Tom Savage:(408) 926-3456:250:168:200 Elizabeth Stachelin:(916) 440-1763:175:75:300 output should contain the lines ...
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Remove a block of lines between two patterns [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Show only text between 2 matching pattern In a bash script using sed how can I remove a block of lines beginning with -pattern a- and ending with -pattern b- where the ...
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find with user variables

I am trying to call find with a few variables. So far I had this: DIRECTORY="./ " FILENAME=-regex" .*test.*" find $DIRECTORY $FILENAME Which works fine. If I change the filename to : ...
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Stripping all vowels but the first from a set of strings

I have a string comprised of multiple substrings, separated by underscores. For example: AbcdAEfd_hEgdgE_AbAAAAA. I need to remove all vowels except the first from each substring. So: AbcdAEfd -> ...
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Why doesnt ctrl+d work with this?

I wanted a simple way to process text in my clipboard without having to create a file. I tried using the following line: awk '{print $1}' <(cat) but I couldn't send cat the EOF character using ...
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How do I grep for multiple patterns?

I want to find all lines in several files that match one of two patterns. I tried to find the patterns I'm looking for by typing grep (foo|bar) *.txt but the shell interprets the | as a pipe and ...
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Extracting text from a text file in bash

I have a large text file that is all one line. In the text are several sections that looks like foo=12345 and I need to extract them all as separate lines, ignoring the rest of the file. For ...
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Using regex inside if clause in bash

Look at this if block: #!/bin/bash str="m.m" if [[ "${str}" =~ "m\.m" ]]; then echo "matched" else echo "not matched" exit 1 fi exit 0 This should print "matched", but it doesn't. ...
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Match neither regex

I have a Bash script which installs a customised JBoss. The name of the JBoss instance is checked against a regular expression to make sure that the name is valid: if [[ ! $1 =~ $instanceNameRegex ...
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How do I choose specific files in a different directory using bash?

I want to list (or delete, or do some other operation) on certain files in a directory, like this: $ ls /opt/somedir/ aa bb cc aa.txt bb.txt cc.txt $ ls /opt/somedir/(aa|bb|cc) ## pseudo-bash ...
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How to cut the output to only gather the filename and get-parameter?

I have multiple files with multiple links that are formatted like this: <a href="http://example.com/fnord.layername.html?parameter=FOO-_-BAR-_-FNORD" class="poit"> <img ... /> ...
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perl regex replacing globally when global not selected

I'm using Ubuntu 11.04 and wrote a small script that searches within text files for certain "tokens" and replaces with some a prewritten snippet from a template file of the same name. The text files ...
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How does a shell (bash, for example) expand regular expressions?

Assume that a directory has 100 files starting with the letter 'a'. If I do a grep <some string> a* from the terminal, how will the shell handle this? Will it expand the regular expression, ...
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What regular expression engine type does bash use?

I use RegEx Buddy to prototype and debug my regular expressions. RegEx Buddy allows me to choose between a number of different regular expression engine types (.NET, Java, Perl, GNU BRE, GNU ERE, ...
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substrings and regexps

I have a string contained in a variable, and I want to extract substrings based on position relative to another substring. My solution seems to work unless the string is sent to a function as an arg. ...
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ANDed conditional using regexp and variables

I want to test whether a line, read in from a file, has a specific beginning AND an ending containing a word held in a variable. Here's some code: The input file is: line one #; line two #; line ...
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Print specific Exif image data values with exiv2

How do I print the image Exif date with a tool like exiv2? My goal is to write the image year and month into separate variables. Do I really have to parse the output with regex or is there a ...
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Bash regex matching not working in 4.1

Upgraded to Bash4 and found that it is not matching regexes: $ echo $BASH_VERSION 4.1.2(1)-release $ [[ "20110228" =~ "^[0-9]{8}$" ]] && echo matches But Bash 3.0 is: $ echo $BASH_VERSION ...
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Applying a regex to stdin

In programing we often see the use of Regular Expressions. One of the most common forms is: newText = text.replace( /regex/, 'replacementString' ) If stdin is text and stdout is newText, what ...