General :: Process Multi-line Regular Expressions?
Feb 23, 2010How to make tools like sed operate on the whole file, instead of line-by-line?
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General :: Delete Files On The Command Line With Regular Expressions?
May 6, 2010Lets say I have 20 files named FOOXX, where XX is the number of the file, eg 01, 02 etc. At the moment, if I want to delete all files lower than the number 10, this is easy and I just use a wildcard, eg rm FOO0* However, if I want to delete specific files ina range, eg 13-15, this becomes more difficult. rm FPP[13-15] does not work, and asks me if I wish to delete all files. Likewse rm FOO1[3-5] wishes to delete all files that begin with FOO1 So, what is the best way to delete ranges of files like this? I have tried with both bash and zsh, and I don't think they differ so much for such a basic task?
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Apr 16, 2010I'm writing a program that works with text files, and I'm trying to create some filters with grep. I have various questions here, so I'll number them for clarity.
1) First of all, I'd like to know what wc -w is actually returning. The word count is less than what gedit is counting in Document Statistics, so obviously gedit is counting something (like newlines) that wc -w is not
2) Secondly, I was wondering if there was a way to grep x number of words. I'm looking for something like the -m option, but returning a certain number of words instead of lines. For example, to find the first 2000 words, do something like grep -someoption 2000 ".*" or using {1,2000}.
3) Finally, I'm trying to filter out headers and footers of a text file but having no luck. The text files are Project Gutenberg files, so they have standardized headers and footers. Here's an example: [URL]...
The header starts with "The Project Gutenberg EBook of" and ends with the line containing "START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK" The footers begin with: "End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of" My problem is, grep can find:
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General :: Terminal - Using Regular Expressions With Grep
Aug 3, 2011I can't get this simple regular expression to work for matching emails: 'w*(?:.w*)*@w*(?:.w*)*w{2,5}'
It should be working as I have tested it with regex pal and it works just fine. I think there's a problem with optional character class but I'm not sure.
General :: Regular Expressions In Batch Script?
May 5, 2010I am pretty new at this topic but I would like to learn it from example. The first thing I am working on is to modify the command date to be shown as DD/MM/YY only using regular expression but I dont know how to combine what there is in the regexp tutorials online and the syntax for batch scripting. Any help?
Here is what I what.
run a file test: ~# ./test
Where file test is:
#!/bin/bash
#
DATE=$( date )
[Code]..
Also if you can point me to good regexp tutorials (directed towards batch scripting), that will be great.
General :: Difference Between Regular Expressions And Globbing?
Aug 26, 2010As the subject says, can anyone explain to me what is the difference between Regular Expressions and Globbing?
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Nov 20, 2010How can we do a simple match by regular expressions on two filenames. I plan to use it in the command 'find -regex'
Code:
hosts.txt
ipaddress.txt
Ubuntu :: How Do I Use Regular Expressions
Aug 15, 2010I want to use regular expressions and sed to remove html tags from a text file.
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Mar 29, 2010how a way that I can edit the metadata tags on some MP3s using regex?
I've got almost 100 MP3, all named "01 - <song title>," "02 - <song title>," etc., and I, understandably, don't want to edit them all by hand.
Running "s/d{2} - //g" would be so much easier.
Software :: Library For Regular Expressions In C++?
Mar 26, 2011I've began to develop with C++ (Eclipse+Qt) and the first problem I see is that there is not good functions for manipulating strings. if there is a library for manipulating strings with regular expressions?
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May 31, 2011i am trying to create an exclude regular expression for my build.xml. The problem is, that i am trying to find some info on which REs are acceptable/valid for ant... Is ant using standard regular expressions? POSIX ones? Since it is a java-based tool, the "Java REs" are probably valid. I am a little bit confused. If somebody can help me out with the different RE standards, i would be most obliged.
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Mar 17, 2010Gidday, I'm puzzled as to why this works:
Code:
find /Data/ -type f -iname "*7pm*"
But this doesn't:
Code:
find /Data/ -type f -regex *7[Pp][Mm]*
I've tried MANY variations, but I'm getting no error messages, just no returns, and yet the first find, will find the sorts of files I'm looking for. I realise a win is a win, but I'm of the understanding that the -regex switch allows for some really complex use of regular expressions - but I can't even get a very simple one to work,
Fedora :: Regular Expressions And E-mail Validation?
Jan 12, 2010The * would not have to be because it means everything [az] [0-9 ][$%&!"/()=?'=) but not how to solve[URL]..
ls [0-9a-zA-Z]*[@]*[gmail | yahoo | hotmail]*[.]*[com]
ls [0-9a-zA-Z][.-_][0-9a-zA-Z]*[@]*[gmail | yahoo | hotmail]*[.]*[com]
Software :: Make Vim Use Extended Regular Expressions?
Jun 8, 2010How do I make Vim use extended regular expressions?
I really wish I wouldn't have to use all these ugly backslashes to do backreferences.
Ubuntu :: Point To A Two-digit Interval With Regular Expressions?
Sep 9, 2010Is it possible to point to a two-digit interval with regular expressions?
Background:
I'm using mplayer to watch tv shows, that often have episode numbers in their names. I know how to easily add several files to the playlist by using brackets, by typing something like
$ mplayer tv/South.Park.S1.E0[1-5]*avi
Is there a way to point to files 06-13 in a single expression?
Server :: Case Statement With Regular Expressions - Date Manipulation Script
Aug 19, 2010Here's my need:
If Calendar Day= Then FCPeriod= And FCYear=
Jan 11 to Feb 1002Current Year of Feb 10
Feb 11 to Mar 1003Current Year of Mar 10
Mar 11 to Apr 1004Current Year of Apr 10
Apr 11 to May 1005Current Year of May 10
May 11 to June 1006Current Year of June 10
June 11 to July 1007Current Year of July 10
July 11 to Aug 1008Current Year of Aug 10
Aug 11 to Sept 1009Current Year of Sept 10
Sept 11 to Oct 1010Current Year of Oct 10
Oct 11 to Nov 1011Current Year of Nov 10
Nov 11 to Dec 1012Current Year of Dec 10
Dec 11 to Jan 1001* Current Year of Jan 10
* Note for Dec 11 - Dec 31,
The Next Year to be used
IE: Current date is Dec 28th, 2010. Year = 2011
IE: Current date is Jan 8th, 2011, Year = 2011.
Looks like I'll need a case statement with some regular expressions...
Programming :: Java Regex - Use Regular Expressions Find Out What The First Two Characters Of The String Are
Feb 2, 2011What I am doing is reading the text from a text document and storing all of the text inside of a ArrayList. I then set one of the values of the Arraylist as a string. I want to use regular expressions find out what the first two characters of the String are. if first two characters = "//" then function(); I only care about the first two characters though. If you need any more information, just ask.
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Jan 28, 2011I'm having trouble getting a sed command to work. I need to filter a printed line to get characters between 2 expressions. "<job>" and "<url>".
Code:
echo "<job>TEST<url>http://www.project.com/?code=001" | sed 's/^[<job>]*//' | sed 's/[<url>]*$//'
Produces:
Code:
TEST<url>http://www.project.com/?code=001
It takes off the first part but why is that not deleting the "<url>" and all the parts after that?
Software :: Use Command Line To Split A Single-lined XML Into A Multi-line XML?
Dec 9, 2010I have a many text files that have XML tags all shoved into 1 line. I want to create a new file that splits each XML tag onto a new line. code...
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Feb 20, 2010Write a script that will take a list of filenames as arguments and output a count of how many of them are regular files, and how many of them are scripts (if the file is executable, it will be assumed to be a script file)
Counts always come back as 0
General :: Get Parent PID Of A Given Process In GNU From Command Line?
Jun 8, 2010Resolved before asked: cat /proc/1111/status | grep PPid
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May 20, 2011I have created three child process from one parent. And different child has different functions. Child 2 has got function to load file called "wc" to count file1 and and its required to get their files by command line arguments. I can get the files through command line but couldn't get the files when child 2 process start.
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May 12, 2011i got basic knowledge about creating a single child from a parent using fork(). But when it comes into creating multiple children, i am simply stuck. I am trying to create two processes from a parent and it would wait for both two processes to finish. my attempt is as below
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Slackware :: Suspend - Hibernate At Command Line As Regular User In 13.37 - Use ConsoleKit?
Apr 18, 2011Using the most recent -current/13.37, I'm curious if there is a New Right Way to suspend as a regular user from the command line, now that we've got PolicyKit/ConsoleKit running the show. I've seen some things (e.g., on the Archlinux wiki) that seem to come close, but require UPower. For some reason I can't wrap my head around the PolicyKit documentation well enough to figure this out.
My old solution was to add a line to /etc/sudoers giving anyone in the power group access to pm-suspend, pm-hibernate, and shutdown, and this is probably what I'll end up doing with 13.37.
Ubuntu :: Empathy - Multi-line Pastes Don't Appear In Msn Chat
May 22, 2010When an msn contact pastes a multiple line piece of text(couple of lines or more) into their client and sends it, the message fails to display in my empathy chat window. If the window is not focused there is a notification for the message, consisting of '...' in the notification bubble, but no text appears in the window. The same thing happens(or rather doesn't happen) if the window is focused but without the notification.
However, if I look in the chat history for that conversation the pasted text shows up where it should. I noticed this 'problem' in Empathy in karmic previously, so I'm not sure whether it is a bug or a feature, which is why I ask here rather than making a bug report. Using Lucid updated earlier today. This doesn't happen in pidgin, and it's quite annoying, but I would like to keep using empathy.
Programming :: Multi-line Find - Replace With GnuWin32 Sed?
Apr 26, 2009I would like to have a script that will do a search in an XML file for a specific block of XML code and replace it with a different block of XML code using the Windows build of GNU Sed 4.1.5.
Here's the text I want to find:
Code:
And here's what I want to replace it with:
Code:
There is however a lot of stuff in there that would mess up sed, and the one example from the sed FAQ (from the Sourceforge site) that looked promising and easy enough to figure out (4.23.3. Try to use a block of "literal strings") fails with this error message: sed: file blockrep.sed line 18: unterminated `s' command
Anyone got any ideas, or even an alternate program that can do this? (Preferably one that I can automate.)
Programming :: Going Through A Multi-step Process To Produce Output Files, Which Involves 25,000 Greps At One Stage?
Nov 8, 2010I am going through a multi-step process to produce output files, which involves 25,000 greps at one stage. While I do achieve the desired result I am wondering whether the process could be improved (sped up and/or decluttered).input 1set of dated files called ids<yyyy><mm> containing numeric id's, one per line, 280,000 lines in total:
Code:
123456
999996
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Software :: Escape Single Quotes In Sed For Multi Line Pattern?
Jul 18, 2011I have some code written in VHDL that looks as follows:
Code:
foo = "bar";
foo <= 'bar',
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Programming :: Split Multi Line Record Into Multiple Files With Awk?
Nov 11, 2009I have a large file 'NS0923.csv' with data like the following. There are two records in this multi-record sample.
Code:
E60898,4578910,03/06/09,BEN BOYD RD,61,82,,,127,3,,52000.3046.001,3155,4.00,,PLT,1356,1.00,05/06/09,Y,Y,0551
,,,,,,,,,,,,4057,1.00,CLEAN CAR SHARE SIGN,LAB,0551,1.00,,,,
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2. I still have to create a file 'transaction.csv' that should retrieve data from $13 - $15 with the identifying column $1. Required output:
Code:
E60898,4057,1.00,CLEAN CAR SHARE SIGN
3. And finally another file 'quantity.csv'. Retrieving data from $16 - $18 with identifier $1. Required output:
Code:
E60898,PLT,1356,1.00
E60898,LAB,0551,1.00
E60898,LAB,3065,1.00
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General :: Using Grep And Expressions?
Mar 28, 2010How can I use grep expressions so that i can find strings like the ones bellow:
New York, NY
Virginia, VA
Oregon, OR
As you can see each city starts with capital letter then it follows up with a comma, and then with the Abbreviation of the city. I used :
Code: grep -w '[A-Z].*[a-z][,][' '][A-Z][A-Z]' filename But i get no results.