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What is the difference between the printf function in bash and the echo function? Specifically, running: echo "blah" >/dev/udp/localhost/8125 did not send the "blah" command to the server ...

New to shell scripting, I wanted to learn how the echo command works. I started with the following code. echo -n "What is your name -- " read i echo "Your name is $i" I do not understand why I ...

I have seen -- used in the compgen command. For example: compgen -W "foo bar baz" -- b What is the meaning of the -- in there?

I was wondering how to count the number of a specific character in each line by some text processing utilities? For example, to count " in each line of the following text "hello!" Thank you! The ...

I know that I could delete the last three chars with: echo -ne '\b\b\b' But how can I delete a full line? I mean I don't want to use: echo -ne '\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\...

ls -1 lists my elements like so: foo.png bar.png foobar.png ... I want it listed without the .png like so: foo bar foobar ... (the dir only contains .png files) Can somebody tell me how to use ...

I need to concatenate two variables to create a filename that has an underscore. Lets call my variables $FILENAME and $EXTENSION where filename is read from a file. FILENAME=Hello EXTENSION=WORLD.txt ...

Why does the following command not insert new lines in the generated file and what's the solution? $ echo "Line 1\r\nLine2" >> readme.txt $ cat readme.txt Line 1\r\nLine2

Is there an issue with sed and new line character? I have a file test.txt with the following contents aaaaa bbbbb ccccc ddddd The following does not work: sed -r -i 's/\n/,/g' test.txt ...

I have a file named my_file.txt whose content is just the string Hello. How could I redirect its content to the command echo? I know I have the commands less, cat, more... but I need to do it with ...

Recently I'm echoing short sentences to a tree_hole file. I was using echo 'something' >> tree_hole to do this job. But I was always worried of what if I mis-input of > instead of >>, ...

I want to remove a line from a file which contains a particular character only once, if it is present more than once or is not present then keep the line in file. For example: DTHGTY FGTHDC HYTRHD ...

Sometimes, I'd like to know the name of a glyph. For example, if I see −, I may want to know if it's a hyphen -, an en-dash –, an em-dash —, or a minus symbol −. Is there a way that I can copy-paste ...

Suppose I have a file (call it sample.txt) that looks like this: Row1,10 Row2,20 Row3,30 Row4,40 I want to be able to work on a stream from this file that is essentially the pairwise combination of ...

Answering this question caused me to ask another question: I thought the following scripts do the same thing and the second one should be much faster, because the first one uses cat that needs to open ...