Tagged Questions
11
votes
6answers
6k views
Looping through files with spaces in the names?
I wrote the following script to diff the outputs of two directores with all the same files in them as such:
#!/bin/bash
for file in `find . -name "*.csv"`
do
echo "file = $file";
diff ...
9
votes
6answers
341 views
Text Manipulation Across multiple lines
I Have a file that has text like this:
AAAA
BBBB
CCCC
DDDD
1234
5678
9012
3456
EEEE
7890
etc...
And i want to match up the Alphabetic lines with the Numeric lines so they are like this:
...
3
votes
1answer
106 views
Help improving my AWK skills
This program works as I intended but I feel like I used some clumsy methods to get the out put I desired(especially with my use of print commands and variable declarations)
Could some one improve ...
3
votes
4answers
159 views
Replacing text from a list of replacements. Added complication: backslashes
I have a file A that contains pairs of strings, one per line:
\old1 \new1
\old2 \new2
.....
I would like to iterate over file A, and for each line perform the replacement (e.g. "\old1 -> \new1") ...
2
votes
3answers
65 views
dynamic display of a running process?
I am writing a script and acording to that when i run it certain info will be displayed on the output screen.
for example say the constant data displayed is:
my name is mukesh.
i am 27 years old
...
2
votes
2answers
108 views
Comparing files and their properties
I get information of a certain set of files in my mail every day, which looks like this:
58623208 Sep 14 20:08 blbn_blfbe_drv
57904920 Sep 14 19:54 blbn_cycmn
55814208 Sep 14 06:02 clsa_Upd
38912000 ...
2
votes
2answers
281 views
How to do a text replacement in a big folder hierarchy?
I want to search and replace some text in a large set of files excluding some instances. For each line, I want a prompt asking me if I need to replace that line or not.
Something similar to vim's ...
2
votes
6answers
683 views
get numeric ASCII value for a character
I'm trying to write a shell script which asks for an ASCII character in the range A-Z or a-z and returns its equivalent numerical value. For example, the output might look like the following:
...
1
vote
3answers
159 views
To list out duplicate filenames in a listing?
bash-3.00$ cat f.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 mukesh other 102 Nov 5 18:32 f1.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 mukesh other 19 Nov 5 18:32 f2.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 mukesh other 204 Nov 5 18:32 ...
0
votes
1answer
81 views
Making a simple PHP script process text in a pipe
Last week I wanted to convert some simplified Chinese characters into traditional ones. I found a deceptively nice looking shell one-liner, which today I found out was 20% error prone.
So I did some ...
