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Text editor with indented word wrapping
I've been using Notepad++ in windows for a while and it has a cool feature for word wrapping so that the wrapped text is indented. That is the start of the sentence starts at column 1, but wrapped ...
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Selecting/highlighting Text Problem
I am using Backtrack 5. As it is based on Ubuntu 10.04 I decided to ask my question to here:
I'm having problems selecting text with my mouse. For example when I try to rename a folder, sometimes I ...
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Reduce redundant logfile
I often have longer redundant log files, redundant in the sense that blocks of text repeat with minor changes. The length of the files makes it difficult to spot the actual information. I had the idea ...
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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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Script to remove spaces and lowercase in file names
I am trying to write a script that will replace spaces with "-" and make all letters lower case for all files in the current directory.
for x in 'ls'
do
if [ ! -f $x ]; then
...
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Keyboard Shortcut To Send Text Strings To Program
How can I configure a shortcut key to send a text string to the current program?
The purpose is to type common entries quicker (email address, street address, phone number, username, favorite quote, ...
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Character count in Unix wc command
When I give wc command on a file with contents given below, it gives the number of characters as 30. Does it include the end of file character? Since including the space and newline there are only 29 ...
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view file containing ISO-8859 text, CRLF line terminators, and escape sequences
I have stumbled upon a strange text file in an archive of an old dos game downloaded from some abandonware site.
The text file is named WHY_NOT.TXT. I assume the file is some sort of .NFO file from ...
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Synonyms (from a thesaurus) in Emacs
I use Emacs 23 on Debian sid. I can check the spelling of a word in Emacs with M-$. How can I obtain synonyms (using a thesaurus?) for a word in Emacs?
None of the following were useful: one, two, ...
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Compare all text files in a directory, and sort by similarity
In Unix, is there any way to compare every text file in a directory to every other text file in the directory, and then sort each pair of files by similarity (using the diff utility)? There are ...
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How to remove all instances of a particular symbol from a text file?
I've got a huge (about half a GiB, impossible to use a usual text editor on) CSV file with fields enclosed in double quotes like "abc","def" but need a file without quotes (I am sure this is not going ...
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Unique lines with unique words
Help me to print unique lines in Linux. Word examples like
A B
B C
C D
A E
F G
H I
I J
the output should be
F G
H I
I.e., the line should be unique at first and the words in the line should ...
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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.
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How to replace all percent-encoded UTF-8 substrings with plain UTF-8 text?
I've got a html file with a lot of %-encoded UTF-8 text in URLs.
For example "%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%83%D1%80%D1%81%D1%8B" stands for "ресурсы" ("resources" in Russian).
The task is to replace all ...
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How to remove duplicate lines inside a text file?
A huge (up to 2 GiB) text file of mine contains about 100 exact duplicates of every line in it (useless in my case, as the file is a CSV-like data table).
What I need is to remove all the repetitions ...
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2answers
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How can I find and install pacman-color or cope?
I'm using Arch-Linux and I'm trying to install something that colors the text in the terminal (xterm), but not necessarily just for xterm. It would be nice to find something for text without ...
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how to word wrap, align text like the output of man?
what is the command that word wraps and justifies a text file so that the output looks like that of a man page:
All of these system calls are used to wait for state
changes in a child ...
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Look for English word in a file via terminal
How to find and print out English words contained in a file via linux command line?
Thanks
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How to fix xdg-mime for text formats
My xdg-mime makes mistakes. It recognizes an .html file containing Java code as a C++ file.
I don't quite know the internal mechanism of xdg (eg. how it determines filetype). And I want to know how ...
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Mint 13 bug that prevents right clicking on desktop icons and numerous other symptoms
I use Mint 13 with Gnome Shell 3.4. For the last month or two I have had an issue that randomly occurs, and once it does only logging out or rebooting fixes it.
I randomly have a problem that causes ...
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2answers
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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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Which extension to use for text files? (Unix/Linux)
I noticed that I can read text files without an extension .txt just fine. How come? Should I save these files with or without the .txt extension?
Also, what about .ini files? I usually use them like ...
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AWK-Find maximum value in a row & print with header
I need to read a file, find the maximum value in each row, and print the ID of the row, the column the maximum value came from (sno#), and the value from the associated lc# column. If the maximum ...
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extract fields from “tail -f” of a syslog stream
Example line from syslog file:
Aug 1 10:25:50 10.10.10.1 id=firewall sn=XXXX time="2012-08-01 14:35:18 UTC" fw=x.x.x.x pri=6 c=1024 m=537 msg="Connection Closed" f=11 n=195273698 ...
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Colorized `cat` for source and script files? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I display syntax highlighting on a file?
Is there any application like cat, but with color output?
I'd like to view my files with colors like in any IDE's ...
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2answers
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How can I turn ugly output into pretty, useful information?
How can I turn this ugly output into pretty, useful data?
The output:
/* ---------- TA#box#AbC_p ---------- */
insert_job: TA#box#AbC_p job_type: a
#owner: bob
permission: gx
date_conditions: 1
...
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1answer
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Remove first instance of lines with duplicate field value
I have sha1 summed all the image files on my storage server and put the results in a text file in the form of:
sha1sum filename
I've sorted the file and removed all all unique sha1sum entries. So ...
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1answer
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Get list of Linux files recursively and direct output to file
I'm configuring software on Ubuntu for i2b2, and trying to find all of the relevant files on a CentOS image that I downloaded (path below) and am now running on Windows VMWare Player (free for ...
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How can I get entries for a given time period from a 400MB+ log file?
I have a 400MB+ Tomcat log file (catalina.out). How can I pull out entries for a given time period?
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Does OS X have its own line format?
Obviously there are at least two newline types: DOS and Unix. But does OS X have its own plaintext 'format'?
I opened a text file in nano and was surprised to see: [ Read 26793 lines (Converted from ...
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Replace variable read from a text file (so they can be interpreted)
I tried several stuff with not luck so maybe one of you experts can help me (I hope!).
I want to store in a text file some select statement that contain variables like a date:
$ cat res.txt
select ...
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What is the purpose of -e in sed command?
I can't find any documentation about the sed -e switch, for simple replace, do I need it?
e.g.
sed 's/foo/bar/'
VS
sed -e 's/foo/bar/'
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Grep huge number of patterns from huge file
I have a file that's growing about 200,000 lines a day, and it is all formed with blocks of three lines as such:
1358726575123 # key
Joseph Brunner # name
carpenter # job
...
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1answer
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Expanding text format in VI
The following code is taken from the superfish module for websites:
(function($){$.fn.hoverIntent=function(f,g){var
...
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How can I find out how many lines a text file contains without viewing it?
How can I find how many lines a text file contains without opening the file in an editor or a viewer application? Is there a handy Unix console command to see the number?
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Testing C++ code with bash commands
I've read a programming problem and then I wrote code for it.
But I thought my algorithm was not working right, so I wrote another piece of code that it was not optimal but, I think, correct.
Now I ...
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Is there some sort of PDF to text -converter?
I need PDF files to text so I can search over them in bulk from commandline. Is there some converter for Ubuntu, OBSD or similar distro?
Perhaps related post, OCR with ubuntu here.
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creating a sequence of numbers, one per line in a file
Is there a way to create out of thin air, a file that is a sequence of numbers, starting at a given number, one per line?
something like
magic_command start 100 lines 5 > b.txt
and then, b.txt ...
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Why isn't there a djvu2text?
This has been bothering me for a while.
.djvu files are often searchable, in my experience. So somewhere in there, all the text is just one big string, right? But there's no djvu2text program. And ...
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Should I end my text/script files with a newline? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What's the point in adding a new line to the end of a file?
What is considered better behaviour: to leave the last letter of the last line to be the last byte of a ...
