I've got this line find . -type d -name 'elements' -exec rm -rf {} ; put together to find and delete all directories named elements and their contents.
It does work but whenever I run it I get the error/warning
Code: find: `./dir3/elements': No such file or directory
find: `./dir6/elements': No such file or directory
[code]....
I am trying to edit a print file.
For every occurence of the ^L form feed character I need to remove 5 blank lines after it but still keep the ^L.
I am a rare user of sed and am ok with the basics but am struggling with this.
I have a file with a number of strings like the ones below
string1#m1asdfe23easdf23wefas
string2#mfaaeb2vr1rhserh
anotherstring#ji89ensrsegr
anotherone#m1ynmdt324nsdt
I'm trying to delete everything after #** so that
string1#maasdfeaveasdfawefas
string2#mfaaebvrserhserh
becomes
string1#ma
string2#mf
tried sed 's/#..*//g' but as you all will know it returns string1, string2 etc.
I have a program that creates and uses a shared memory segment. I am trying to find out how to detach and delete this shared memory segment when I hit crtl-C, and I still need the process to terminate.shmdt() and shmctl() have variables that are local to the main passed to them(shared and shmid)
Code:
//Prototype
void leave(int sig);
//part of code trying to use signal handling
if(signal(SIGINT, leave))
[Code]...
I recently started shell programming and my task now is to do a menu display.Currently i am stuck whereby user will input both title and author and it will delete it.
Do i have to use sed command?
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Code:
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Quote:
-4.4.1-x86_64-1alien.txz
I just want a method to remove that version number from all the filenames so that I can then add all the packages without version numbers to a blacklist file.
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I recently moved to a new machine, and I copied my entire home folder across. This included lots of hidden (starting with '.') folders, and in many cases they are config folders for packages which I have not installed on the new machine. They are taking up space, so I would like to delete them, but to go through manually and figure out which ones I need would be very laborious. Is there a way to find, and perhaps delete, config folders for packages that are not installed?
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example:
filename = test.txt
contents:
[foo]
test>test
test>test
test>test
[Code]....
so, in this example. I'd like to search the file for string 'foo' and delete all lines from that line until [bar] (not deleting the line with [bar])
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Code:
tr -d '3456' file,
but it also deleted whichever ocurrence of 3,4,5,6 from my file. Should I use a regular expression?
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View 4 Replies View Relatedif the given pattern exists in the file with the very next line starting and endingwith the same pattern , delete the line that starts and ends with the given pattern.So upon running on this file
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<PATTERN>a lot of fun<PATTERN>
writing scripts
[code]....
My problem is like this I have to delete all lines between two pattern match example- suppose below is the content of the file then i have to delete all lines between text1 and text2
...
text1
abc
def
ghi
[Code]....
I have 50 files in the following format.
fileone.0001.txt
filetwo.0002.txt
filethree.0003.txt
[code]...
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Code: BEGIN { FS="|"
OFS="|"
SUBSEP="|"
[code]...
A sed mishap prior to a database import left me with a table name with, eh, well, this: Code: mysql> show tables;
+-------------------+
| Tables_in_someday |
+-------------------+
| day20101016 |
| day20101017); |
+-------------------+
I've corrected the sed mishap and imported the database the way it was intended Code: mysql> show tables;
+-------------------+
| Tables_in_someday |
+-------------------+
| day20101016 |
| day20101017); |
| day20101017 |
+-------------------+
But I can't seem to drop the table day20101017); because no matter how I seem to escape it it errors.
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Language C, Library openssl, IP4.
Compiler: gcc.
Delete this with maximum prejudice, mods.
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