I often use VNC to connect to my desktop upstairs using a laptop downstairs over my home network. I tunnel the VNC connection via SSH. The problem I keep running into is that I'll attempt to type a ! or a : or even a captial A and it will come across the wire as a 1, ;, or a respectively. Is this something I can fix? It's really REALLY annoying while one is programming to have to pop open character map and find a colon and copy/paste it in each time. Running Ubuntu 10.04 upstairs, Linux Mint 10 downstairs.
While modifying the definition of my PS1, I saw that "[" and "]" markers should be added to help bash to compute the right display lenght. Many exemples on the web do not use them or even mention them.I searched for a solution to add them automatically, like with sed, but I didn't find any example.Are they still needed and is there a recommandation not to use sed to define PS1?
What command could I use in terminal to delete all ASCII characters? That is, delete a-z, A-Z, 0-9, and all punctuation? I have a file containing Chinese characters, and I want to remove everything else and leave just the Chinese.
I can use grep to leave only the lines that have Chinese in them, but this still leaves a lot of non-Chinese stuff on those lines. Does anyone know how I could actually remove everything that isn't Chinese?
I have my OpenSuse 11.1 box set up with utf-8, however, every time I try to open a file with utf-8 characters with vi it can't handle those characters properly.
any tips from you guys on how to filter my awk output?I want to exclude last 5 characters using awk in my tcpdump result.I don't want to include ".443:" in my tcpdump using awk.
We have a list of cyclones in the world. Now i got to check whether or not the second field is more than 1000 mm. If so, than the line has to have a[*] at the end of the line. For exemple:
Australia:1411:55.55:Mackay Cyclone 1918:1918:Mackay to Australia:1411:55.55:Mackay Cyclone 1918:1918:Mackay[*]
I also have to use a substitute. So far i've got this but it fails, 6,$s/([0-9])111:1/.* [*]
The input file consists of several fields. The first field is always five or more characters long. I want to keep the last five characters of the first field.
Example: If the input file record is FEDERAL PACIFIC ELECTRIC PRODUCTS then I want to keep DERAL I can do this in four steps by using C, REV, C, and REV again but that seems like doing an easy thing the hard way. Is there a straightforward way to achieve this result with C or some other command?
I have a file with a random word on each line (3k+ lines). How can I get the lines with only five characters? I tried using grep file | more, but it returns all the words (even those less than 5 characters).
Edit: I also tried grep '.{5}' file | more but it doesn't show anything. And grep '.{5}' file | more returns all lines with four or more characters (I'm really confused about why it's doing this).
I would like to modify the content of a text file in Linux, in the following way:=> the file has several of these lines:./run_pest3 ./g134366.04080_0.062 x 2_d043 1 0.43 results_EC=> I want to modify all lines to be:./run_pest3 ./g134366.04080_0.062 x 2_d043 1 0.43 results_EC0.062i.e., the last number of $2 should be "attached" to the end of $7, for each line.
I am using a Swedish keyboard, and I want to be able to type braces easier.
I planned to map AltGr + to '}' and AltGr + to '{'. However, nothing really changes. I have some other stuff in my .Xmodmap so I know that it gets loaded allright. Here's what I have so far:
Any time the word The appears at the beginning of a line, I want to move it to the end of the line and capitalize the new first word in the line. For example, The heaven becomes Heaven the. I'm trying to test this out for my Library.
I have a problem with both genisoimage and mkisofs. Both of them are limited to 8 characters. There are very many options for them. Which one would remedy the issue?
When I upload a file usind the scp that contains the German characters these characters get changed to . For example, a sentence in an html file like this
Simple logging script that allows user to enter quick notes and questions, but I can not get it to pass punctuation '?. no matter what I type after 'n' i need that to be inserted at the end of the working project note file.Any help and working examples would be appreciated, but please also direct me to the proper reading material so I can learn something - not looking for someone to just do it for me.usage:
I'm trying to look at a file and find 6 or more consecutive consonants (everything except a vowel). However I have a hidden $ character at the end of each line in the file. For some reason I can't reference to it in any of the pattern searching commands.
For example: grep '[^aeiouAEIOU$]{6,}' file| more
This command returns words that contain 5 consonants at the end (because it interprets the hidden $ as not a vowel). How can I make it ignore the hidden character? Or more specifically how do I refer to the hidden character in my pattern searches?
I'm trying to change the password for an account using the passwd command in Linux. However I'm getting the error:
"BAD PASSWORD: it does not contain enough DIFFERENT characters"
Even though the passwords I'm trying seem pretty safe and complicated enough to me. I googled and think this is controlled by something called cracklib? Don't know for sure though. How can I change the settings for this, perhaps lowering the amount of different characters required, or disabling whatever security setting is causing this error?
I have txt file with list of ID's and I need to insert comma in every line and then remove new line character so it'll become one long string. So to clarify, I have txt file content that looks like this.
234 5466 2356 ... and so on.
but I would like this to change to 234,5466,2356,... I looked at sed and tried to wrap my head around the commands but I guess my brain isn't smart enough. its really confusing for me. I've managed to add commas to end of line (sed "s/$/,/g" filename) but somehow I can't seem to remove new line character from each line.
In Ubuntu 9.10 is there a way of setting the password to only three characters.If one goes to system, Preferences, About Me, the password can be reset, but it only lets you set it to eight characters, I would prefer three or less.
I am trying to make specifically Norwegian characters appear properly. Right now they look like this:
[URL]
Characters like turns the same. This is a font that I downloaded called PT Sans. The letters I want are included, they just don't appear right in the GNOME environment, it seems. They work just fine in other applications, such as OOo Writer. I'm using Ubuntu 10.04.
How can I use extended ascii characters, like ALT + 2 + 0 + 0 for instance? I'm using some of those characters for my passwords for online accounts made under MS Windows and it seams I'm unable to use them in Slackware 13. For instance: if I type ALT+2+0+0 in Pidgin there is no character displayed and if I type in the Terminal the same thing, it will replace my shell prompter (sasser@HOSTA:~$) with (arg: 200): sasser@HOSTA:~$ (arg: 200)
I would like to create a .ksh script which cuts certain data from a document. I have tried to use SED and AWK and piping but its been some time since i have operated on Linux and my memory is patchy.
I am working with bash scripting and running into a weird issue where the trailing newline characters are being truncated.The file contents are something like:
Code: # Catting the file shows the trailing characters cat /tmp/junk first line second line
[Code]...
Since I am working with config files, some of the applications/daemons fail to start if they fail to find trailing newline characters
I access a linux server shell via putty, but many of the keys I use do not translate across, up, down, left and right all are seen as ^[[A, ^[[B, ^[[D and ^[[C; But so is C-up, C-down, C-left and C-right. And enter is seen as C-j (which move down to the next line), and backspace is seen as C-h, which is backwards delete.
How can I stop these keys being translated into other keys (so I can, for example, configure C-h and backspace to perform two different functions) and what's doing this translation (Putty, the kernel, the shell)?
I want to archive all .ctl files in a folder, recursively.tar -cf ctlfiles.tar `find /home/db -name "*.ctl" -print`The error message :tar: Removing leading `/' from member namestar: /home/db/dunn/j: Cannot stat: No such file or directorytar: 74.ctl: Cannot stat:No such file or directoryI have these files: /home/db/dunn/j 74.ctl and j 75. Notice the extra space. What if the files have other special characters? How do I archive these files recursively?
After writing a new prompt for Bash, I noticed that one character of my commands were being lost when it wrapped to the new line. Here is an image of the example (I typed 1234567890 over and over):
