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Automated partition selection in bash script
I'm trying to write a bash script to run from Linux on a CD or flashdrive that can mount Windows and change stuff, but I don't know how to go about detecting which partition/drive is Windows.
My best ...
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Using bash shell function inside AWK
Is it possible to use bash function inside AWK somehow?
Example file (string, int, int, int)
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Trying to convert values from decimal to hexadecimal.
Function defined ...
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Pass colors from ls through pipe to awk 'print' statement
This is a follow-up to my question from yesterday, Show sum of file sizes in directory listing.
Thanks to Zero Piraeus and a point in the right direction by Mauritz Hansen, I now have
function ...
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Show sum of file sizes in directory listing
The Windows dir directory listing command has a line at the end showing the total amount of space taken up by the files listed. For example, dir *.exe shows all the .exe files in the current ...
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Safely convert unicode strings to printable characters
I have many HTML files containing mixed unicode strings like \303\243 and printable characters like %s. What I'd like to do is converting the unicode strings into printable characters in a safe way.
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How do I get a field in bash's job list using awk?
I wanted to write a function to retrieve a field from the list of background jobs in bash. For example to get a specific argument.
Let's say I send vim to the background, so "jobs" displays this ...
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Bash commands/script to remove a line from CSV with duplicate in column
I have a lot CSV files that I have combined. However, there are duplicates, but the entire line is not duplicated. I do have a column that I want to use as the criteria to search for a duplicate. ...
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Processing shell script options with awk
I'm looking for way to process shell script arguments that is cleaner and more "self documenting" than getopt/getopts.
It would need to provide...
Full support of long options with or without a ...
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Conky - string formatting
I have conky the record:
${color lightblue} Down: ${downspeed wlan0} Up: ${upspeed wlan0}
Conky prints link speed, but the text moves:
Down: OB Up: OB
Down: 60B Up: 60B
Down: 148B Up: 148B
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Validate Unix Timestamp using BASH
My google-fu has failed me so I'm hoping someone here can point me in the right direction. I'm in the middle of doing some data validation efforts and I suspect the system is recording some invalid ...
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Bash variable in Awk script
I have this flat file database(ff_servers.db) with following contents:
192.168.154.2 Alaska hp
192.168.157.3 Colorado dell
192.168.156.3 hawaii hp
From command line, I could run:
awk ...
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how to add a description in footer
I enjoy learning how to modify files with awk, sed, and bash. However, I know it could cause issues down the road and I would like to be prepared with a log inside the file. I was thinking about how ...
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Awk to output read file
I havent stepped into awk yet but it is on my plate for learning this coming year. I asked a previous question that led me to awk and it works. However, I am unsure how to input all file types and ...
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Print lines where first field has only four characters using regex in awk?
John Goldenrod:(916) 348-4278:250:100:175
Chet Main:(510) 548-5258:50:95:135
Tom Savage:(408) 926-3456:250:168:200
Elizabeth Stachelin:(916) 440-1763:175:75:300
output should contain the lines ...
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renaming diverse files
I store files named like this: word-word2-word3-word4.txt . The number of "words" varies from file to file.
I want to replace certain of the dashes with pluses e.g word+word2-word3+word4.txt
I want ...
