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Effect of slash (/) suffixes on symlink names for `ls` with the `-F` option
By way of example, I have a directory structure like this:
$ \ls -F
dir/ lnk@
$ \ls -F dir
FILE
$ \ls -l lnk
lrwxrwxrwx 1 user group d Mon hh:mm lnk -> dir
My ls command is aliased. I am using \...
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/bin/sort appears to ignore forward slashes in its input
I'm running Ubuntu 20.0.4.
Consider these contents of the following file (suppose the file is named input) ...
/zzzzz foo bar
/hij zzz
xyz abc
/abc
ijk lmnop
qwer tyuiop
abc def
If I run /bin/sort ...
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How to pass a string containing slashes to sed without treating it as a file? (No such directory or file)
I need to pass a string containing slashes to sed to extract some values from it, but when I try to do so it treats it as a directory/file and throws a "No such directory or file" error instead. I'm ...
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What is a "path name component"? [duplicate]
I am not sure I correctly understood what is a path name component (or perhaps better written; path name-component) which I understand to be commonly abbreviated simply as "component" in the Unix &...
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Where can I find a definitive answer for what `*/` means in Bash or Zsh?
I was trying to look into some reference from O'Reilly about Unix and Bash about the meaning of */ but couldn't find any. We can echo */ and see all the directories.
It seems like it means all "...
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Escape a mm/dd/YY backup date in a file name
I have been trying to:
cp file.csv file.$(date +%D).csv
But it fails because the filenames is: file.03/27/19.csv with the slash of separate directories.
And I have been trying again to:
cp file....
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What does the slash do in 'case $1/$2' in shell script (/bin/sh)
Found this example on the arch wiki
#!/bin/sh
case $1/$2 in
pre/*)
echo "Going to $2..."
;;
post/*)
echo "Waking up from $2..."
;;
esac
and can't make out if it's a logical ...
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How to remove the trailing slash from a variable which defines a directory from a time test output
Ubuntu 16.04
Even thou the output of for client in */; do doesn't produce a trailing slash, the trailing slash appears if I echo the variable $client while performing a time test on the file, within ...
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How does the shell interpret ././command-name?
I have a binary file named hello2 in my current working directory.
To execute it I need to press ./hello2 and it shows the output.
But when I use the following command ././hello2 it still works.
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Is there any difference w/ v/s w/o "./" in a relative path?
Is there any subtle difference between:
file
and
./file
as a relative path?
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Why can a softlink to a directory be created with or without the trailing slash?
I have found that when creating a symbolic link to a folder it is produced with or without the trailing slash based on your input. for example:
$ ln -sfv /ln-test/FOLDER/ test-tail
test-tail -> /...
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Forward slash not detected in "grep" command
I have a sql query in a text file and it has a line that looks like:
PARTITION BY (date_key // 100000000);
Now, I want to replace the two forward slashes with the word "DIV".
For that, I did the ...
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Kernighan and Pike challenge: how to put a slash in a filename?
I've just encounter the following question in Unix Programming Environment, the Kernighan and Pike's classic book on Unix (I found the below text on p. 79 of year 1984 edition, ISBN:0-13-937699-2):
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How to delete a file named "filen/ame" (with slash) on an ext4 filesystem in debugfs?
Playing with e2fsprogs debugfs, by change/accident, a file named filen/ame was created. Obviously the forward slash character / serves as the special separator character in pathnames.
Still using ...
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Bash script error trying to write to file: no such file or directory
I'm getting an error with a very simple script. The script should run pg_dumpall and write the output to a file but I'm getting an error that the resulting file doesn't exist. I know it doesn't exist, ...
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Any reason why find does not merge multiple slashes into one?
Is it true that find is not supposed to be doing even the most simple path unification/simplifications operations, such as coalescing multiple successive slashes together (which would be equivalent to ...
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How to create a directory with '/' in unix?
I want to create a directory with name as below
A3456/90876/IN AS%90876 JI KOL
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Is it ok that find displays double forward-slash?
Is it a bug that, when I find ./path/here/ I get:
./path/here//foo
./path/here//bar
I know find wants me to specify the path without the trailing slash, but surely it can detect the path that tab-...
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What does dot forward slash forward slash mean (.//)?
I was querrying a server using a command like this:
find ./ -type f -name 'filename"
I got many files starting with
.//library
or
.//user
What do these things mean?
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Get `scp path/` behave like `rsync path/`
I have local file structure:
/tmp/24
/dir1
/file1
/file2
/dir2
/file3
/file4
and I want to upload it to remote compute. When I use
rsync /tmp/24 host:/target
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cd with double slash hangs forever on Mac OS X Terminal
If I type cd // on the Mac OS X Terminal (Version 2.6.1 (361.1)), the prompt hangs forever. Why?
Curiously that doesn't happen if I do cd / or cd ///.
I am using El Captain with the bash that comes ...
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difference between /dir and /dir/ [duplicate]
Consider a symlink I am making to my Music directory named music.
ln -s Music music
now consider following sequence of commands:
edward@ArchLinux:~$ readlink music
Music
edward@ArchLinux:~$ ...
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On what systems is //foo/bar different from /foo/bar?
Throughout the POSIX specification, there's provision (1, 2, 3...) to allow implementations to treat a path starting with two / specially.
A POSIX application (an application written to the POSIX ...
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What is the difference between a directory name that ends with a slash and one that does not? [duplicate]
Is there any difference between a directory name such as
mydirectory
and
mydirectory/
I noticed this happens when I execute ls in some directories - some of the directory names have a slash and ...
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Why ./home/Desktop is incorrect and ./Desktop is correct?
I'm learning about Linux, started yesterday. I have a question which I couldn't answer from my book or Google. What is the difference between ./ and / in the shell?
I'm asking this because when I ...
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Why do I have double slash here?
$ which mycommand
/home/t/program_files/document/other edits//mycommand
Why do I have double slash // here?
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Difference between including / at the end of a directory path and and omitting it [duplicate]
I am just wondering is there a difference in what happens when I leave / at the end of a file path for example:
root /var/www/website.com/
And omitting it like:
root /var/www/website.com
How is ...
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Shebang starting with `//`?
I'm confused about following script (hello.go).
//usr/bin/env go run $0 $@ ; exit
package main
import "fmt"
func main() {
fmt.Printf("hello, world\n")
}
It can execute. (on MacOS X 10.9.5)
$ ...
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When is a symlink treated as the thing it links to, and as a symlink?
When is a symlink treated as the thing it links to, and as a symlink?
A symlink can links to a file of different types. For example, let mylk be a symlink which links to a dir.
The following two ...
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Test for link with trailing slash?
I created in /tmp/test/
mkdir somedir
ln -s somedir/ somelink
I want to loop through only directories:
for file in */ ; do
if [[ -d "$file" && ! -L "$file" ]]; then
echo "$file is a ...
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When should I use a trailing slash on a directory? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How linux handles multiple path separators (/home////username///file)
Most commands I use in linux behave exactly the same whether I include the trailing slash / character on ...
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What causes ln: //: Is a directory?
When linking a directory to root, I get this error:
$ ln -s ~/inbox/ /
$ ln: //: Is a directory
Bash autocompletes the directory path by adding a /. I've tried escaping without success.
$ ln -s ~/...
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What does '//' mean in return from `which`
I have an executable script test under the full path /home/sawa/foo/bar/test. The directory /home/sawa/foo/bar is within $PATH, and has priority over the default ones including /usr/bin. When I do
`...
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unix, difference between path starting with '/' and '//' [duplicate]
In unix/linux, any number of consecutive forwardslashes in a path is generally equivalent to a single forwardslash. eg.
$ cd /home/shum
$ pwd
/home/shum
$ cd /home//shum
$ pwd
/home/shum
$ cd /home///...
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What do double slashes mean in UNIX path? Is `cd dir/subdir//` valid? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How linux handles multiple path separators (/home////username///file)
Do cd dir/subdir/ and cd dir/subdir// mean the same thing in UNIX?
Will the latter work out? Does the ...
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Inconsistency in behavior of 'rm' when a mounted volume is involved?
If I run the following sequence of commands:
mkdir dir
ln -s dir link
rm -r link/
I get this output:
rm: cannot remove `link': Not a directory
I get the warning because I could simply have issued ...
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How does Linux handle multiple consecutive path separators (/home////username///file)?
I'm working on a python script that passes file locations to an scp subprocess. That's all fine, but I'm in a situation where I may end up concatenating a path with a filename such that there's a ...
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the slash (/) after a directory name on shell commands
I have a little question here.
If I have two files, say filea and fileb, mv filea fileb would
delete fileb
rename filea to fileb
Then if I have two directories, say dira and dirb, mv dira dirb ...
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