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.
View 7 RepliesI 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?
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.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI 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 `''
View 3 Replies View RelatedHaving problems displaying French chars. They are dumped into an nfs share by a Windows/cifs configuration which has been blamed for this unwanted behavior but when I transfer a file continaing � via WinSCP to the RedHat, instead of getting the filename Response.txt I see R?sponse.txt. When I refresh WinSCP to view the file it views it ok.
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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.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI need to replace a value in a file. For example the content of data.txt file is:
1 1 23
2 1 42
3 2 52
4 2 62
5 1 77
6 1 88
7 2 99
8 1 100
Could I substitute 2 in second column with 3 using awk and or sed or other command so that the data will be change as follow?
1 1 23
2 1 42
3 3 52
4 3 62
5 1 77
6 1 88
7 3 99
8 1 100
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
View 8 Replies View RelatedI 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?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI'm experimenting with old linux Distributions again, and while trying tostart an x server, I get the following error message:X: unable to open display ''That makes me think that the config file is incomplete, but I would have no idea how to make it. If there is an auto configuration utility that I do not know about for X, it would be great to hear about. Here are some other specifications that might help:*Host: VMWare Workstation on Windows XP Home*Distribution: Debian 2.2 (potato) (Yes, I know it's old.)*Connection: Local. I've heard of people having difficulties like this on remote connections, but I am on the physical computer
View 7 Replies View RelatedAfter I assign a string to a variable, I know that the print function will remove the single quotes around the value, but is there a way to assign a variable without the quotes around the value? for example:
a = open('/usr/lib', 'r+')
b = f.read()
c = x.replace('.xx','yy')
d = ?
c returns the value with quotes around it print c returns the value without the quotes Is there a way to assign a new variable (d) which will equal c without the quotes? I need a new variable which has the quotes omitted because from there the script will take the value of the last variable (which is a path to a file), and tar up that file. It won't recognize the path to the file if the value has quotes around it.
I have some code written in VHDL that looks as follows:
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foo = "bar";
foo <= 'bar',
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I increase my knowledge in vim in two ways. Little hints about doing this or that and scattered studies using the vim help files. Please do not believe I always rely on the first one.
View 12 Replies View Related1.What character instructd the shell to interpret a special character as an ordinary character?
2.What directory contains some of the utilities available on the system in the form of binary files?
3. What command is used to search the location of a utility?
4. What command is used to instruct the editor to write the file and quit the editor?
5. What key quits the more utility and displays the shell prompt?
6. What command starts a child shell as the super user, taking on root's identity and environment?
7. Which wildcard characters can be used for searching all the files in the system that start with "A"?
8. The user name or login name of the super user is????
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I am running RHEL 5 and when I get the backspace key it deletes a section to the left (such as /usr/localbin) instead of just a single character to the left. How do I change that?So it deletes the section instead of just the single character n.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI'm having a small issue with regex matching in Perl. I'm pretty certain it's a simple fix, but it all looks correct to me...
If I run the following:
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It prints out all the lines containing a 'P', as one would expect. But when the regex is
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I get zero lines printed. It seems to match only single-character patterns.
The file I'm reading is: (It has the same effect whether I leave it with Windows linebreaks or convert them to unix).
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I have a large text file that's formatted sort of like this:
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foo bar
blah
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The lines beginning with greater-than symbols are the sequence descriptors and the lines immediately after each descriptor with A-Z characters, dashes, and question marks are the aligned DNA sequences. The sequences are always the same length within a file and never span/wrap across more than one line.I am trying to write a script to remove positions in the sequences that are only represented by a -, X, ?, or N (these represent gaps or missing data). Also, if there is exactly one non-gap/missing character in a position it is also useless (there is nothing to compare it to) so I would like to remove those positions as well.
Position 5 (from the left) was removed because it was all gap/missing characters. Position 9 was removed because only one character was a non-gap/missing character. Position 10 was retained because there were 2 non-gap/missing characters.I'm really not sure where to start here. My first concern is I can't figure out how to tell awk to treat each character in lines not containing a greater-than symbol as a separate field. After that, I'm thinking I should use set up a counter to count the number of lines with gap/missing characters comparing that to the total number of lines not containing greater-than signs?
I got a filename called like this:
beach---------20090808-110000.ogg
beach---------20090808-120000.ogg
It's like this:
name----------YYYYMMDD-hhmmss.ogg
Now Im splitting these hourly files into 1 minute files. I get then this output sofar properly:
beach---------20090808-110000_00.mp3
beach---------20090808-110000_01.mp3
beach---------20090808-110000_02.mp3
and so on....
the 00, 01, 02 and up are the minutes it has splitted it. Now I need a script, after it did this, to rename the file names into this:
beach---------20090808-110000.mp3
beach---------20090808-110100.mp3
beach---------20090808-110200.mp3
beach---------20090808-110300.mp3
Usually if I have to replace a character in a string I used the sed /s/ command. However, I am having some difficulty in doing the same thing when I have the following string in a variable in my shell script and I need to replace all the forward slashes ("/") to backslashes ("").
For example, this is what I am doing:
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Not sure how to escape the slashes in this case.
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 $file which probably contains spaces.
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variable=$(foo "$file")
The problem is that foo might return an empty string and if it does I need to catch it
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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.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI exported a spreadsheet file into cvs format.
The cvs file is formatted this way
field1,field2,field3,..etc
I want it to be in a Quote delimited format like so
"field1","field2","field3",..etc
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.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI know it is pretty trivial but anyway...I have php file that I am trying to read it looks like this
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add_item_tabulky("Klaun-PF 2011","klaun_pf2011.jpg","","","");
add_item_tabulky("Pras�tko-�ťastn�
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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).
list filenames one-per-line, in BASH without including directories. I think he was either wrong or making that up. There is a way to list just the names and one per line but there aren't any arguments I can find that can be used to exclude directories.
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IFS=', '; files=`ls -m`; for i in $files; do if [ -f $i ]; then echo $i; fi; done That does only use ls as a command, however he said his GSI thought he could do it without all that...
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ricky@ricky-desktop:~$ ls -l
total 1376
drwxr-xr-x 2 ricky ricky 4096 2010-10-02 22:17 Azureus Downloads
drwxr-xr-x 4 ricky ricky 4096 2010-10-02 22:16 Desktop
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I am using Red hat linux .. i just wanted to know, is it possible to arrange or sort filenames numerically?i have saved several files with the follwing names : 1.png, 2.png, 3.png, 4.png ...... 11.png 12.png. and so on.... but the containing folder sorts this alphabetically in the following manner 11,12,13...... 1, 2, 3, and so on...
View 6 Replies View Relatedif i have a dir with several mp3's files:
example:
[root@xxx]ls -l
-rwxr-xr-x 1 web2 client1 6222573 Nov 26 17:34 01 Artist1 - Song1.mp3
-rwxr-xr-x 1 web2 client1 4989384 Nov 26 17:34 02 Artist2 - Song2.mp3
-rwxr-xr-x 1 web2 client1 6987438 Nov 26 17:36 03 Artist3 - Song3.mp3
and i need to update the id3 tag of all files with the command:
/usr/bin/id3v2 -a "Artist1" -t "Song1" Artist1 - Song1.mp3
how i do a loop to read the filename and execute the id3v2 command for each file, as i have filenames with spaces and special chars ex:"".
What would be the best way to verify files in a folder are all lower case and if a file is not lower case, output the filename to the screen.
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