# echo "foobar" > /tmp/word
# cat /tmp/word | wc -m
7
I want to print the number of characters in the file. Why does it output 7? Am I missing something obvious?
manpage:
-m, --chars
print the character counts
Is the maximum number of letters a database table column can contain 255?and is it a bad idea to build a table with about 15 columns?
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grep <span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> filename.html but once I attempt to tell it to match any number of characters up until the next '>' symbol, it tells me I'm using an invalid regex: grep <span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>[^>]+> filename.html
I've been nose-deep in regex tutorials for the past day or so, and I'm still not understanding why this doesn't work. If I put the pattern (without backslashes) into a separate file and use `grep -f patternfile filename.html`, I get no error but no matches either. So far as I can figure, the above regex boils down to:
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I configured cups and I managed to print successfully with generic text only but my problem is that the printout always comes out as 80 columns. anything more than 80 colums wraps on the next page. I tried changing the pagesize at the textonly.ppd but it didn't work.my textonly.ppd is
*PPD-Adobe: "4.3"
*%
*% Text-only printer definition
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I'm trying to get the end result to have the same format as this as well:
1 bin
2 daemon
67 erozner
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Where the numbers are the number of processes being run by the user (the name right next to it).if I input the command egrep myFile into the terminal, it should look for every line with the letter x in myFile, right?
I want to sort a number of lines based on their size:
data:
-------
12345678
87654321
1234
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Should output as:
-----------------
1
2
12
21
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But i'm gettings this with sort
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1
12
123
1234
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Can we sort the above "data" text, based on "number of characters" instead of "character order"?
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 want to print all ASCII characters kind of like a table, but i really don't have an idea of how to do it, i don't know if there is a built-in method or something to accomplish this, if not
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- The total number of lines and characters in file pwd and grp
Probably an easy question but my googlefu is weak. How do I change the number of characters per line for konsole?
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How do I count the number of occurrence characters in a string in an efficeint way ?
How do I reverse the words in a string with out using temp variables if possible . (if not possible use temp variables ?
Why do I specify dependedcies for header files in the Makefile ?
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View 8 Replies View RelatedI want to print the line number with the pattern of the line on a same line using multi-patterns in sed. But i don't know how to do it. For example, I have a file
abc
def
ghi
I want to print
1 abc
2 def
3 ghi
I'm looking for a way to insert the number of lines in a file to the start of the aformentioned file. This should be simple but as I am not used to scripts in Linux, I am finding it tough going. I can find the number of lines in a file easily enough via
filesize=$(awk 'END {print NR}' $1)
but as for inserting this into the first line, i'm failing to do so. I've tried some of the other approaches on these forums but none so far have been able to do so.
I've tried:
sed '1i$filesize' $1
but sed i requires a string, not a variable so no go I've also tried:
mv "$1" "${1}.bak" 2>/dev/null || touch "${1}.bak"
cat $filesize "${1}.bak" >"$1"
but again with no luck as cat seems to need an input stream Just to recap, i want to insert a line at the start of a given file that holds the number of lines the original file has.
ie the file:
a
b
c
d
e
should become:
5
a
b
c
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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 $7, for each line.
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Code:
bob@smith:~/notes$ n bob's script sucks?
>
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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.
sed 's/[
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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.
Anybody know and command to count any characters in file? I would like to know the total number of character " (quote) in file. My idea is to check if in a script the total number of this character is pair.
View 4 Replies View RelatedWhile 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?
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Sometimes I just run a quick tr -d '' < file.log > file.log.correct and open the correct file. This is a big nuisance. I would like to have maybe an external tool in GEdit that would execute the above command. I tried writing an external tool action (GEdit plugin) using just:
#!/bin/bash
tr -d ''
Input is "current document", output action is "replace current document". But this isn't working. When I open the file, GEdit shows the familiar red warning; activating the external tool with the warning showing apparently has no effect (I think the script is being called but its input/output are not set).
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:
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NEW_STRING='<!--<property name="webServiceHost">${jboss.bind.address}</property>-->'
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I want to configure file printer (print to file) on my rhel-5 machine in such a way that if users fire print command from windows xp it should create an individual computer wise txt file on my linux machine. File name should be different for each printer.
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View 1 Replies View RelatedI need to get the max number from the name of a file
Formant of the file name:
[a-zA-Z]*_[0-9][0-9]_[A-Z][A-Z].log
Delimiter as underscore '_'
[code]....
known part in the above file name will be GA.log A give directory may or may not contain files in the above format or may contain file other then the above format if so then ignore it.
Eg:-
1) Directory=/tmp/log having below listed files
ant_01_EG.log ant_02_GA.log ant_04_EG.log cvs_01_EG.log cvs_02_GA.log cvs_04_EG.log master_01_GA.log master_03_EG.log master_04_GA.log
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output=> 06
2) Directory=/tmp/log no files
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", $1+1}'
output=> 01
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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.
I have a log file that contains information like this:
----------------------------
r11141 | prasath-palani | 2010-12-23 16:21:24 +0530 (Thu, 23 Dec 2010) | 1 line
Changed paths:
M /projects/
M /projects/
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what i need is, i need to copy the data given between the "---" to seperate files, for, e.g. the first set of data between the "---" should be in one file and another set of data in another file.