General :: Difference Between Find Name With And W/o Quotes?
Feb 17, 2011
I was going to file a bug to findutils on gnu.org when I saw a notice that asked me whether I knew the difference between these two commands:find -name *.c and find -name "*.c".I use find command quite often but I don't think these two have any difference.
I am not sure If anybody has faced this issue, my keyboard is less responsive when pressing the double quote/single quote key, I have to press it twice for it to print the quote( and that too it prints some other data and not exactly a double-quotes). Initially I thought it was issue with my keyboard, but later I see that it is working fine in Windows XP. It looks some kind of setting issue. If you check the below two examples, example a) is the double quote printed in Ubuntu, it doesnt exactly looks like a double-quotes and b) is the one printed in Windows.
So I think I almost have gnucash figured out. One problem though. When I try to import my stock quotes for my portfolios, It won't get any quotes for my OTC BB Stocks. Under the security editor, there is no option for OTC as an exchange. For example: CNEX. How would I set GnuCash up to import this quote?
What is the difference between *.xml and *.xml in find command in Linux/macThe results of:find . -name *.xml and find . -name *.xml are different. But why?Also, is locate '*.xml' better than find? Which one is the most commonly used?
For searching a file or directory i normally use grep command. kindly can you guide me the difference between grep and find command. I have used both but that are the difference between them ? are the same or grep is new as comapird to find command.
In bash I need to use some equivalent of double quotes inside double quotes (or the other way around.)I need to run the following statement to get the output of foo and store it in a variable while passing foo the $file which probably contains spaces.
Code: variable=$(foo "$file") The problem is that foo might return an empty string and if it does I need to catch it
I have the following command, which works fine:ll /backup/PROD |grep PROD_ |awk -F" " '{print "catalog backuppiece /backup/PROD/"$9";"}'The output is:catalog backuppiece /backup/PROD/PROD_29mi42vn_1_1;BUT... I want single quotes in the result. One before /back.. and one before the ;Like this:catalog backuppiece '/backup/PROD/PROD_29mi42vn_1_1';How do I do that? I tried using ' but it does not work.The following command works, but I get an error message, which prevents me from using the command in a bash file:ll /backup/PROD |grep PROD_ |awk -F" " '{print "catalog backuppiece '''/backup/PROD/"$9"''';"}'awk: warning: escape sequence `'' treated as plain `''
I want to grep for $_POST['whatever']. I've done enough googling and trying different things (and failing) to where I felt it appropriate to post here. How do I identify the single quotes as literals? slashes don't seem to do it.
When I run for i in $(find -name '*.ogg'); do echo '$i'; done I don't get one line per file as I expected. Instead, when a file name has a space in it, each word comes out in a separate line, so I can't run commands on the files.
I am trying to synchronize the content of the directory my_dir/ from /home to /backup. This directory contains a file which name has a double quote in it, such as to"to. Here is my rsync command: rsync -Cazh /home/my_dir/ /backup/my_dir/
And I get the following message: rsync: mkstemp "/backup/my_dir/.to"to.d93PZr" failed: Invalid argument (22) For info, rsync works well when the synchronized filenames contain single quote, parenthesis and space. Thus, why is it bugging with a double quote?
The following script will work when I type the path to the file I want to checksum, but not when I drag the file to the terminal because the linux terminal (unlike the Mac) automatically puts quotes around the file path, which causes an error. I did not find anything in gconf-editor or anywhere else to alter this behaviour, and my post in Launchpad is unanswered so far. (the script in itself is not very useful, I just stumbled upon this error when experimenting with bash).
So, is there a workaround for stripping the quotes from the input, or can I configure the terminal to not quote the input when I drag a file into it (which I would prefer?)I am currently logged in from Mac OS, but the question refers to ubuntu karmic with which I dual boot.ADMINISTRATORS: Thanks for the quick reply to my newbie question about posting new threads. Actually I don't see now what the difficulty was; I guess I was tired from trying to debug the above script (not funny).
Can anyone offer a code snippet to recursively go through directories and replace any single or double quotes quotes found in a filename with another character (e.g. "_").If any of the filenames contain a single quote or double quote, then replace it with an underscore.
I have 3 pc's on home network. All dual boot Windows and Ubuntu. All have Samba installed, plus personal file sharing. When all 3 are booted into linux, all 3 show the public folders on all 3 pc's, but only 2 can access the other pc's folders.
I can't find any difference between the systems to explain why one pc (10.04) cannot mount either of the other two public folders: Unable to mount location. DBus error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)
even though their icons are shown in 'network'. The public folder on the troublesome pc can be accessed from the other two (10.04 & 10.10).
I'm searching for a script which finds changes/differences in two (s)ftp directories. Not 100% sure if this is possible with just FTP or do I have to transfer the files beforehand? Something like: ftpdiff user@host1/directory user@host2/directory.
I'm trying to find out what is the difference between wifi0 and ath0 (atheros wifi card) in terms of packet counters shown in proc/net/dev pseudofile. The fact is that wifi0 and ath0 packet counters are different. I've read that wifi0 refers to the physical device and ath0 refers to virtual device over wifi0, so, as far as I know, packets counters in both devices should be the same, isn't it? Another annoying question for me is that ath0 doesn't show any erroneous packets, while wifi0 does.
I converted my programming project over to autotools, which gives me a config.h file with all the cool definitions, like these ones:
Code:
/* Location of data files. */ #define DATADIR "/usr/local/share" /* Define to the full name of this package. */ #define PACKAGE_NAME "lusus"
And naturally I think this is cool because then I can hardcore these into the binary. To my dismay, however, I discovered that the pre-processor does not do the text-substitution if the macro name is inside another quoted string.
Code:
// Prints out "/usr/local/share/lusus" std::cout << DATADIR << "/" << PACKAGE_NAME << " ";
In Thunderbird, when composing a reply to an email that you have quoted, is there a way to cut only part of the quoted material? A typical situation is that you have exchanged a series of emails with someone and your reply has all the old emails from your and the otherperson quoted in it. The quotes are nested inside each other. Often I'd like to chop off all the very old messages and just leave the last few. But the Thunderbird editor seems to make it an all-or-nothing proposition. I can cut the whole quote, but can't highlight a few nested parts and cut them.
trying to edit a huge configuration filer graphviz that containsIP addresses.unfortunately, some of the IP addresses didn't get parsed right and have only 3 octets. I am trying to use sed to find these 3 octet lines and delete the line entirely.example lines in the file look like this.
I'm trying to write a bash script that has to extract values from a csv file. Problem is there are lines like this:a,b,c,"dd,dd,dd",e,f,gI'm using awk to extract the values but when I try it extract value 4 with awk I get:"ddinstead of:"dd,dd,dd"Does anyone know how to get awk to ignore commas within double quotes?
We have 'SNOWMAN' UTF-8 character in our files which i need to replace with doublequotes (").The UTF-8 hex value for 'SNOWMAN' is 0xE2 0x98 0x83 (e29883) , I have written the commands like this but it is not working .........sed -i 's/x0xE2 0x98 0x83/"/g' FileName
I am trying to get PvPGN working... I have installed all the files, the only thing now is that bntrackd wants to use 'logs/bntrackd.log' for it's logfile, but seeing as it's in /usr/sbin, I want it to use /var/log/bntrackd. This is done with 'bntrackd --logfile=/var/log/bntrackd.log' but when I put that in the script it won't process it as a command (instead splitting it and complaining that I don't have --logfile=/var/log/bntrackd.log installed)
/etc/rc.d/pvpgn:
Code: #!/bin/bash ... [ -z "$PVPGN_DAEMONS" ] && PVPGN_DAEMONS=(bnetd d2dbs d2cs) ... for d in ${PVPGN_DAEMONS[@]}; do
The following script will work when I type the path to the file I want to checksum, but not when I drag the file to the terminal because the linux terminal (unlike the Mac) automatically puts quotes around the file path, which causes an error. (Clarification: am referring to gnome-terminal. Thanks, GrapefruiTgirl.) I did not find anything in gconf-editor or anywhere else to alter this behaviour, and my post in Launchpad is unanswered so far. (the script in itself is not very useful, I just stumbled upon this error when experimenting with bash).
So, is there a workaround for stripping the quotes from the input, or can I configure the terminal to not quote the input when I drag a file into it (which I would prefer?)
I am currently logged in from Mac OS, but the question refers to ubuntu karmic with which I dual boot.
I have a problem with my keyboard. I�m unable to type single or double quotes, at least not the regular sort that you need to write code in almost any programming language ever invented -which makes it pretty useless.A demonstration.Single left and right tilted quotes:Double quotes: m not able to type a single straight quote at all.I just want my keyboard layout to be standard US like everyone elses so I can get on with my work so does anybody know how to just reset it to a normal layout?