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May 21, 2010
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:
Code:
bob@smith:~/notes$ n bob's script sucks?
>
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Feb 20, 2010
I am running gentoo openbox(rox file manager and desktop) I installed Digikam and Amarok. But I have problems with files which include special character in their names(such as �,�, �,ğ... ) The files are shown with strange and weird characters in the file dialogs of Digikam and Amarok.
I don't have this problem in other applications. I can create files with special character included. I think some settings do not agree with KDE4. How can I solve this problem? Does anyone have an idea? I also installed KDE systemsettings program but could not find a relevant config option for character encoding.
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Apr 29, 2011
I am having difficulty getting sed to replace a string of text in an XML file, despite the fact that I have no trouble using grep to find that same string. Since the new string and old string to be replaced contain a lot of special characters, I thought it best to store them in variables as opposed to using a slew of backslashes:
OLD_STRING='<property name="webServiceHost">${jboss.bind.address}</property>'
NEW_STRING='<!--<property name="webServiceHost">${jboss.bind.address}</property>-->'
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Sep 2, 2010
We're in the process of implementing an offsite backup of all our servers to a remote Linux server. We're using rsync over ssh.What I've found is that characters such as ±, ¶,´ and £ are replaced on the Linux server with underscores.I don't mind if it changes these characters in the filenames of documents, but when it renames a language pack from Espa±ol.clx to Espa_ol.clx, it could cause issues for us further down the line.
What do I need to do differently to make the special characters copy over correctly? For the initial sync which will take place locally, before the machine is moved offsite, I have SAMBA enabled. I am able to copy files from Windows to the Samba share, retaining the original filename, though it looks different in the Linux directory listing, i.e. t̻st becomes ĻstThese files get deleted by rsync when it runs, as it does not match the filenames.
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Mar 24, 2011
I have a file with special characters that need to be replaced. I've been working on this for a day and have run out of time.
Example: FILE='/var/tmp/S0000000.LOG.March-24-2011:10:51.tar'
Need to replace the ' with a " on all lines in the file.
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Jan 26, 2011
I'm having issue when trying to change a line in a file
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May 25, 2011
I want to be able to enter special characters into OOWriter and gedit. Ubuntu supports UTF-8, and I've no idea how to use it.
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Jan 21, 2011
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.
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Jun 1, 2010
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?
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Apr 15, 2009
I've always been connecting to linux machine from windows computer, using putty.
Now the situation changed and I have a question:
How the hell can I write special characters (like | ~ Alt + 124 in Windows)?
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Apr 13, 2011
We are creating PDFs from different sources using PHP, Zend_PDF class and Zend server (based on apache2). Developping on windows the PDFs are OK. If we deploy the application on testing server running SuseLinux the special characters ( ) don't show. We use 1 of the standard fonts, HELVETICA and have tested without success COURIER.
The system
Do you have an idea what to do or try?
OK - it turned out to be a coding question. I had thought that some system variable might cause the problem but we simply had to clean the input data and got it working.
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Feb 10, 2010
I need to search for the following pattern with GREP in a text file:
So I tried already:
But none of those works...I think probably because GREP doens't like the special character > in the middle of the serach pattern.
At the end I just need to now if GREP found the pattern in the file or not, so it should give me a 0 or a 1 back, once I check the value of the variable "?" after using the grep command.
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Jun 5, 2011
The command tar -xvf wpa_tables.tar gives this error
tar: ./xai-0/334Regency: Cannot open: Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
Obviously the backslash is giving tar some problem, but I've been all over the docs and can't figure out how to either make it skip this file or interpret the character literally. Here's my command history to show some of the options I've tried which don't work.
tar --no-wildcards -xkvf wpa_tables.tar
tar --exclude ./xai-0/\334Regency -xkvf wpa_tables.tar
tar --exclude "./xai-0/\334Regency" -xkvf wpa_tables.tar
tar --ignore-command-error -xkvf wpa_tables.tar
tar --ignore-failed-read -xkvf wpa_tables.tar
tar --transform 's/\/slash/g' -xvf wpa_tables.tar ./xai-0/\334Regency
I'm totally out of ideas at this point and would welcome some input from more experienced members.
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Feb 6, 2011
I wish to replace a new line with br (html) but it doesn't seem to work
Code:
message=$(echo ${FORM_message} | tr '
' '<br />' )
what it gives me seems to be ... b...? I am also having problem escaping hash sign in cut command:
Code:
list=$(echo "$line" | cut -d'#;#' -f1) ;
my intention is to split the line with "#;#"
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Aug 26, 2009
Below is extract of my file:
What I need is to replace "--destination-path=" with "--destination-path=/home/dest"
i.e. desired output is ----destination-path=/home/dest
I could achieve it with below command
$cat outgoing-xfer|grep destination-path|perl -pi -e "s/destination-path=/destination-path=/home/dest/g"
But the problem is that in this case i just wanted to append "/home/dest" for which I could easily escape "/" with just two "", but I wonder if i have a long path like "/a/b/c/d/e/f/g/h/i/j" I will have to escape so many /. Is there any other way by which I can avoid escaping forward slash.
I tried following:
But receiving follo error
Bareword found where operator expected at -e line 1, near "s/destination-path=/'destination-path=/home"
syntax error at -e line 1, near "s/destination-path=/'destination-path=/home"
Bad name after dest' at -e line 1. tried with enclosing in double quotes as well but in vain
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Jul 14, 2010
I've written myself a linux program "program" that does something with a regular expression. I want to call the program in the bash shell and pass that regular expression as a command line argument to the program(there are also other command line arguments). A typical regular expression looks like "[abc]_[x|y]".Unfortunately the characters [, ], and | are special characters in bash. Thus, calling "program [abc]_[x|y] anotheragument" doesn't work. Is there a way to pass the expression by using some sort of escape characters or quotation marks etc.?
(Calling program "[abc]_[x|y] anotheragument" isn't working either, because it interprets the two arguments as one.)
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Jun 24, 2011
I've written myself a linux program "program" that does something with a regular expression. I want to call the program in the bash shell and pass that regular expression as a command line argument to the program (there are also other command line arguments). A typical regular expression looks like "[abc]_[x|y]". Unfortunately the characters [, ], and | are special characters in bash. Thus, calling "program [abc]_[x|y] anotheragument" doesn't work. Is there a way to pass the expression by using some sort of escape characters or quotation marks etc.? (Calling program "[abc]_[x|y] anotheragument" isn't working either, because it interprets the two arguments as one.)
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Feb 15, 2010
I am dragging my files over to a new Fedora 12 installation and I just noticed that special characters are not taken into account when sorting files by name (I want '_js' to come before 'images').Is there a way to make the sorting process behave like Windows, where files starting with a special character are listed first?
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Feb 15, 2010
I am trying to type German Umlaut letters on an English keyboard using kde 4.4. For some reason I seem unable to figure out how to do that (I have just recently switched to kde, was using gnome before). I have looked through various threads and the kubuntu wiki [URL], but can't get the compose key to work. In gnome I used to type "AltGr" plus "[" followed by a vowel and thus get my Umlaut - before I fiddled with the system settings this worked in kde, but only in firefox & Open Office (I assume they are gtk apps).
Since it did not work in Kmail, I went to the system settings, set up a ComposeKey (AltGr, but also tried rightWin), but it doesn't change anything for the kde applications. It only means that the old key-combination now stopped working in firefox and OO. In the system setting of kde 4.4 I can't see the options to enable xkb-options, but I assume the advanced options of the keyboard layout are xkb-options of previous kde releases. I unticked the box 'reset old options', but nothing changed. I type a lot of German text, so using a character map is not an option.
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Apr 15, 2010
Just a small issue:I have a note in Tomboy called "Today's tasks".When I access the synchronised note on Ubuntu One, in the tabbed view it is called:"Today's tasks"Perhaps someone working on this would like to investigate it.
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Jan 4, 2011
here's my newbie question - I want to change the following string in text files
Code:
E:MP3
with the following string using sed:
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Jan 30, 2011
I am reading strings from a file using readline() function,the file contains some strings which has only special characters, I need to avoid the strings which has only special characters, the special characters are not similar. How to do it in python.??
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Oct 24, 2010
I'm running mythbuntu 0.21 on a hardy environment. I had a thread under mythbuntu but i think this was the wrong forum. So here it is again
<lameexcuse>
Currently i hesitate to upgrade to lucid because i fear problems coming up which i do not have the time to solve.
The machine works generally fine so why upgrade to lucid?
</lameexcuse>
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Feb 8, 2010
Now the messages in certain programs, like yast or in the console, are in spanish, but the special characters are written wrong:
felisa:~ # man ls
Man: find all matching manual pages
* ls (1)
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Dec 10, 2010
I have about 300 files that need renaming, because the file system does not display the French characters properly. The dodgy letter in question has been replaced by a "question mark in a black diamond" symbol.No way of renaming, other then using mv in the Konsole has worked. Is there any way, script or program out there, that will do a batch rename?
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Oct 11, 2010
1. Unable to find frequently used Special Characters and Symbols in Novell openoffice writer. 2. How to import more symbols for writer while using Special Characters in Writer.
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Jul 8, 2011
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?
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Oct 1, 2010
Device/Special file Clairification Requested.I'm reading a short article on Device/special files because it is related to VFS. This article has this paragraph that has to many pronouns in it to get an understanding of. URL..."In short, a device file (also called as a special file) is an interface for a device driver that appears in a file system as if it were an ordinary file. This allows software to interact with the device driver using standard input/output system calls, which simplifies many tasks."
What does a Device file have to do with the Application and the Driver communicating? Wouldn't the order of data transfer be , Application to driver and then to Device file?
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Mar 31, 2010
I would like to know, if there is a way in Ubuntu to access special characters like "�, �, �", etc with a keyboard shortcut.I know Windows has this "alt"+"the ASCII code on the number pad".Is there also something like this on ubuntu or do I have to use the character map?
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Apr 17, 2009
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.
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