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How to do `head` and `tail` on null-delimited input in bash?
find command can output names of files as a null-delimited strings (if -print0 is provided), and xargs can consume them with -0 option turned on. But in between, it's hard to manipulate that ...
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Why doesn't this xargs command work?
I wanted to delete all .sh extensions so did this:
ls *.sh | xargs -I {} mv {} `basename {} .sh`
However it doesn't work, it behaves like basename returns unchanged file name.
Why is it behaving ...
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How to delete commands in history matching a given string?
I need to delete all commands in my history matching a string. I've tried:
$ history | grep searchstring | cut -d" " -f2 | history -d
-bash: history: -d: option requires an argument
$ history | grep ...
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Why does xargs strip quotes from input?
Why does xargs strip quotes from input text?
Here is a simplified example:
echo "/Place/='http://www.google.com'" | xargs echo
outputs
/Place/=http://www.google.com
Is there any way to ...
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Remove files, which provided by pipe
I have this command chain:
find . -print | grep php | xargs grep 'eval' -sl | xargs wc -l | grep ' [1-2][0-9] '
This provide me this output:
14 ./includes/js/calendar/lang/vgju.php
18 ...
