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1 Day Ago

Vaphell replied to a thread [bash] Grep strange behaviour in General Help

it puts formatting sequences in the output. When you print to terminal, it interprets these special sequences to change color to highlight matches,...

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2 Days Ago

Vaphell replied to a thread Getting creative with SED - removing string and x digits after in Programming Talk

read about regexes, if you need to manipulate text from time to time, few hours you put into reading is about the best long term investment you can...

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2 Days Ago

Vaphell replied to a thread Admin page of old D-Link Router ignores when we press Apply button (opera, fx, chrome in General Help

i'd probably install xp in virtualbox for it or drop 20 bucks to buy new router, life is too short to tear hair out because of unsupported devices :)

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3 Days Ago

Vaphell replied to a thread parameter expansion & substitution errors in Programming Talk

sh is used mostly for system stuff that is supposed to be light on resources and distros apparently symlink all kinds of stardards compatible shells...

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4 Days Ago

sisco311 replied to a thread wants to delete all the folders in my home directory which ends with ".files" in Programming Talk

Also the -name test should come before the -type test in order to avoid having to test every file if it's a directory or not. ;)

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6 Days Ago

Vaphell replied to a thread More BASH scripting help in General Help

something like this should do while read -r server do mb=$( echo "$server" | sed -r 's/.*(er|ys)(.+)+$/\2/' ) echo " ...

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6 Days Ago

Vaphell replied to a thread More BASH scripting help in General Help

given that you pretty much want to cut the read line to pieces to extract chunks of it, is there any rule to it? is width of $type fixed or variable?...

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6 Days Ago

Vaphell replied to a thread More BASH scripting help in General Help

is mb in the header a literal fixed 'mb' ? example says yes but initial code not so much. also, seeing your comments about possible values, you...

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6 Days Ago

Vaphell replied to a thread More BASH scripting help in General Help

what's in file.txt and what is this cat file.txt | while read LINE do echo >> /home/user/dir/${1}.conf done supposed to do? $1 is 1st...

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1 Week Ago

Vaphell replied to a thread Bash script help - appending lines to files in General Help

what was your script supposed to do exactly? find sub files and do something based on their name? either way if you want to find files 2 levels...

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1 Week Ago

Vaphell replied to a thread Bash script help - appending lines to files in General Help

You can't depend on filenames not having any crappy characters because they are impossible to create via GUI. A script with a subtle typo or wrong...

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1 Week Ago

Vaphell replied to a thread Bash script help - appending lines to files in General Help

ugly non-kosher shortcuts reinforce bad, potentially dangerous habits and not always you have processed filenames under full control. Let's you run...

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1 Week Ago

Vaphell replied to a thread Bash script help - appending lines to files in General Help

http://mywiki.wooledge.org/ParsingLs

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1 Week Ago

Vaphell replied to a thread Bash script help - appending lines to files in General Help

why would you want to use unreliable ls "$d" | while read f when you can use the same trick as with d - for f in "$d"/* ? how about for f in...

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