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I found a solution in here.

The problem is somehow related to the Ubuntu's Head-Up Display (HUD). Using the keyboard settings I set the Windows key (Super L) as the key that launches HUD.

In...

When trying to write a recipient's email address, let us say "anna.markka@bank.com", my favourite email software Evolution interrupts me and shows

anna.markka, @

In my language "@" is produced...

Vaphell,

thank you for joining the effort! You are right:



That line seems to produce a full list of all of my directories. I obtained considerable improvement by using


find ~/ \( !...

steeldriver,

thank you very much! This talk of associative arrays makes my palms sweat - is it fear, is it eager anticipation? It will take days for me to apply this idea, but I shall try.
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schragge,

thank you very much! I shall test these ideas. I suppose at least the idea of using the case statement would make the code a little bit more efficient.

You are right about the huge...

I use PDF printing to collect news items and other articles. Consequently I have saved about 1500 files in my ‘PDF’ folder. At times I move some of these files to directories that are organized by...

Thank you - it is so clear
(when somebody explains it).

For me the best solution was


while read -r dir; do rm "${dir%_files}".html && rm -rf "$dir"; done < folders.txt

So with this piece of code I was able to purge 900+ folders & files on the...

schragge,

thanks for joining the effort.

Some years ago I used to save interesting Internet pages by the menu route File->Save as ...
This produced both the folders and htm files of the type
...

Thank you both! It is amazing what you can do when you have about 100 times the beans I have. I'll have to take a weekend break here.

When running

while read -r -d $'\0' dir; do echo rm "${dir%_files}".html && echo rmdir "$dir"; done < <(find . -type d -name '*_files' -print0)

I discovered that the folders were left intact...

I tried

while read -r dir; do echo rm "${dir%_files}".html && echo rmdir "$dir"; done < folders.txt

Very nice! I am impressed! The code removes htm/html files alright - if there is only one...

Thanks for the words of wardning. I have taken precautions - there is an up to date safety copy of my home folder.

I think we are close now. The htm/html names contain empty spaces. The code...

Thank you - I am new to this so I do not understand what makes this command to delete the htm or html files as well. I must be reading your suggestion somehow incorrectly. To me it seems it deletes...

Yes that is right, I want to get rid of both the htm/html file and its associated folder.

On my computer there are about 900 redundant internet folders with the extension
"_files". In addition there are the corresponding .htm or .html files. These files
are not within the folders...

LibreOffice 4.0 has a new regular expressions engine based on ICU. Does anyone know where to find a user-friendly user guide for the new engine with examples?

Available 'metacharacters' are listed...

I found that these instructions make it possible to install parallel versions of LibreOffice - i.e., there is no need to remove the old version:
...

My hope is that sooner or later there will be a Ubuntu tablet availabe for us who like what real computers can do.

My fear is that Ubuntu will lose its identity when squeezed into a Ubuntu phone....

Ubuntu Phone is a fantastic project, and I hope it will succeed brilliantly.

I have also high hopes for Ubuntu Tablet. I am annoyed with my iPad, because I cannot do normal computer-like things...

Actually Google is not replacing iGoogle. They are bringing the service to an end. There is no replacement. Not by Google, not by any other company.

It is like Canonical making it impossible for...

It is a responsibility of persons downloading stuff to try to do security checks. However, a much greater responsibility is due to the company that provides downloading services.

What the...

Obviously Google Android elicits our support as Linux users. However, could it be that eventually Android will turn out to be a security threat to Linux itself?

Android and Google Play are...

Since Google announced it will we dropping its iGoogle service, I have lost faith in the company.

When using Google Play, beware of malware. I am sure their music service is not affected but it...

Maybe some of it is FUD. However, today it was reported here that



Moreover,



Google is heading for trouble! These security issues may have become intractable by now.