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FISH CLI What do the error numbers at the prompt mean?

I am just trying out the FISH - (the FriendlyInteractiveSHell) - CLI & whenever I type in an erroneous Command, a new Prompt appears under the faulty Command prompt with a number in square ...
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Would it be feasible to create a script that can right click the mouse at a very specific location when an even more specific number gets generated?

I'm aware of a program that can simulate a right-click at specific coordinates on my display at any given interval. However, I'm wondering if it's possible to write a script that can perform a right-...
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How can numbered files be moved and renamed to subsequent numbered files to correct directory?

In ~/wrongdir there are mpv-shot0001.jpg, mpv-shot0002.jpg, mpv-shot0003.jpg, mpv-shot0004.jpg, mpv-shot0005.jpg where the screenshot key was pressed when a mpv was initiated in ~/wrongdir. The ...
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How Can I Find Five Numbers Between Two Numbers

Suppose I have these two numbers: 800000 and 3200000. I want to find five numbers with an even difference in between these two numbers. Therefore, I want the output to be: 800000 1200000 1600000 ...
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match number range with non significative zeros in zsh

I have in a directory files like this : booklet-001.pdf booklet-002.pdf booklet-003.pdf … booklet-997.pdf booklet-998.pdf booklet-999.pdf Then, I whant to match the files numbered from 079 to 256. ...
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Restarting poem line numbering any 4 lines after a blank space

This is related to very interesting answer given here: Any text utility or hack to numbering poems lines omitting certain numbers? awk 'FNR % 4 == 0 { printf "%6i %s\n", FNR, $0 ; next }; {...
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Change number written in scientific notation in filenames

I'm going to make a video of image files, but the filenames contain numbers in scientific notation, so the ordering of the name will not be correct. The filenames are in this format: ABC_1.000000E-01....
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Numbering poems stanzas using roman numerals

I would be able to numbering, sequentially, any stanza of a certain poem using roman numerals like this: Injurious love, why still to mar accord Between desires has been thy ...
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Any text utility or hack to numbering poems lines omitting certain numbers?

My goal is try to see if there are common text utilities in linux that can be used to number lines of poems like this: OF Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal ...
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Numbering a bunch of files according to the date modified timestamp?

So I downloaded a bunch of documents in chronological order, but I have to copy and edit them, which would change the date modified. I would like to prefix them with a number (001_, 002_...) in the ...
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Collapsing a series of comma separated numbers in a sequence to Beginning-End [duplicate]

Problem I am trying to solve/enhance a BASH script that provides a number sequence: I am using a topologically aware tool (lstopo-no-graphics) to extract physical processor numbers to use for input to ...
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How to show a line number in bash TUI?

I'm trying to add support for line number on a bash project i like (mainly as a fun exercise). To start, i looked into the function that was setting up the status line (since i thought of inspiring ...
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Count occurrences with a BEGIN/END statement

I have a list of numbers: 2 1 3 2 2 2 1 First I had a filelog. I extracted all the ID. Now, how do I count the occurrences of each number and display it like this? (the first one is the number, the ...
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Placing matching occurrence number to the left side of the occurrence itself

I have a file with multiple occurrences of the expression ".mp3". I want the first occurrence to become "1.mp3", the second occurrence to become "2.mp3", and so on. It would be something like awk '/ ...
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Bash: I have a variable in bash script; [duplicate]

I have a variable in bash script dirs= "4"; I want to get this number from another file so I am using a command dirs= sed -n '1p' < test.txt; It gets me the number, I see it in the terminal. But ...
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Wish to add numbers to word/url

What i want; as of example- Youtube.com/1 i wish to have an automated script that counts up to a 1000 URL EXAMPLE: https://www.youtube.com/1 https://www.youtube.com/2 Edit: --- [Fetching ...
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How to replace & generate line number

I have an input file with below data, how can I convert it to below mentioned output file. Input file 00001abc 00002def 00003ghi 00001jkl 00002mno 00003pqr 00001stu 00002vwx 00003yza 00004bcd ...
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Use first available number from a file

I have a config file prosody.config With the following data: VirtualHost "pubsub.subdomain.domain.com" admins = { "node1.subdomain.domain.com", "node2.subdomain.domain.com" } ...
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Number files based on modification time

I have a set of files that I need to rename based on the creation time, by appending two digits to the beginning indicating the sequence. Say, I have the following files: Filename Creation ...
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number lines in a file

So I have a file text.txt with lines of some characters example: abc abc yxz abc now I would like to number the lines like this and copy it to another file. End expected result: 1 abc 2 abc ...
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nl - numbering input in descending order

Is this possible to number file lines in descending order? That would be something like: nl -i -1 unfortunately this gives me: nl: invalid line number increment: ‘-1’: Numerical result out of ...
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How to number paragraphs

I know I have already asked this question, but I didn't get an answer that worked. So please could someone answer my question? I have a text file, containing paragraphs of text, each separated by a ...
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mv files into folders based on numbering in names

I have 30 folders: s-01 s-02 ... s-30 And, I have 30 files: txtFile-001 txtFile-002 ... txtFile-030 How can I perform the following operation in one shot mv txtFile-001 s-01/txtFile mv txtFile-...
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Override page numbers of a djvu document

I have a djvu scan of a book. Let's consider two cases: I'd like to number the pages 0, 1, 2, ... (usage case: the cover should get be page 0) I'd like to number some pages with Roman numbers and ...
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Increment Numbers in URL?

I want to create a list of URLs. The URLs have two sets of identical numbers which need to be incremented by 1: http://sample.com/poilus/cwrgshs/192/192.html http://sample.com/poilus/cwrgshs/193/193....
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sed: append line and number output

In Linux, say one wants to add the following line before line number five (thus line nuber 5 becomes line number 6) and wants to have all the lines in the output numbered throught the sed 'tool' = ...
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Delta of numbers in file

On our server a cronjob has logged a count of files in a shared directory. The log is of the form: 2003-07-03T16:05 279 2003-07-03T16:10 283 2003-07-03T16:15 282 By now this file has far over a ...
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Extract line number of a file which is having a non zero value before a specified string

I'm having a file which contains following data 1. verification: 10 passed 0 failed 2. verification: 10 passed 0 failed 3. verification: 10 passed 1 failed 4. verification: 10 passed 3 failed 5. ...
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Are the major, minor number unique

Are the major, minor number Unique? Do we have any citations and reference to it? NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO MOUNTPOINT sda 8:0 0 465.8G 0 ├─sda1 8:1 0 298.2M 0 ├─sda2 8:2 0 ...
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ffmpeg -pattern_type glob -- not loading files in correct order

I have a dilemma.. I've had a script for a while now that downloads pictures from a webcam every few minutes. The naming convention just does new_image((len(files(dir))+1) + '.jpg') and that's all ...
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emacs line wrapping and numbering

How can I tell emacs to wrap lines at the 80th character? I am looking for a solution I can put in /.emacs. I put this in /.emacs but it doesn't work. ;; ========== Enable Line Numbering ========== ...
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swapping fields in columns by fixed pattern (yes, no, no, yes)

I want to produce a following list of pages (for imposition work); (number of pages is variable, but I make a sample of my needs using a list of 16 pages, logic is the same for longer lists) 1,16 8,9 ...
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repeat twice each couple of strings in a for cycle

I need to pass to pdftk, a list of arguments constituted by strings repeated twice like: A1-2 B1-2 A3-4 B3-4 A5-6 B5-6... and so on... I managed to achieve this with this workaround for ((x=1, y=2;...
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List files sorted numerically

I have a bunch of files from log1 to log164. I'm trying to LIST the directory (sorted) in a UNIX terminal but the sort functions are only providing the format like this: home:logs Home$ ls -1 | sort ...
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Add consecutive numbers succintly and elegantly to index lines

I usually do this $ wc questions 33 36 3105 questions $ seq 1 33 > nums $ paste nums questions 1 Content 2 ... . . 33 End Content but I feel there could be faster way to do ...
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