Iam reading a file using C-sh script after manipulating the variables I need to dump into a new file. This in working fine but I couldn't retain the multiple spaces and tabs in a same line. For readability I want to print it back as I read. Now script treating multiple tabs as onl tab or space.
View 3 RepliesKernel 2.6.21.5, slack 12.0 I have a file beginning with <?xml version=1.0?>. May I replace tabs by spaces in it?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI want to back up an entire Linux system on a 3Tb external Western DIgital USB3 drive.
I do not want to reformat it from what it is, apparemtly NTFS.
Is there a utility that can act like a file manager like mc, that will permit me to create an ever expanding (to 320Gb) TAR file that will retain all the original file permissions. I have had nothing but disappointment with Linux backup utils with a FAT32 external drive, and I am concerned if I just try an tar the entire drive at once, with around 3 million files, I might run out of memory.
Is it possible, in Linux, to rename a file from something without spaces to something containing spaces? I know I can create directories and files with spaces by doing:
mkdir "new dir" and:
touch "new file.txt"
I want to rename files from:
imgp0882.jpg to something like:
20091231 1243 some topic.jpg
And how would it look in a shell script that uses parameters like:
for i in *.jpg do
rename "$i" "$somepath/$mydate $mytime $mytopic$extension"
?
I'm new to Linux (using PCLinuxOS 2009.2), coming from Windows, and I've written myself a little shell script to download files from my camera and then automatically rename them according to a date-and-topic pattern. As you can guess by now, I'm stuck on the bit about renaming. If you want to see my script, here's a copy. I'm not using jhead for this renaming because that only works with JPEG files but I want a single solution for any media format including videos.
i am trying to make a script in which i can drag a file (with spaces in file name ) and it will scp the file to another computermy code is
Code:
echo "--------------------------------------------"
echo "drag file now"
[code]....
I wonder how to arithmetic operation of our data file using any script program/command (like sed, cut,awk)for example my data.file is:
45 65 42
12 23 61
43 34 21
I want to multiply first column with 2 and add second column with 3 then it become
90 68 42
24 26 61
86 37 21
Which do you prefer and why? Also, I remember someone telling me once that while using space indentation use either 4 spaces or 2 spaces. Don't use 3 spaces. Anyone know why they would say not to use 3 spaces?
View 14 Replies View RelatedI have a lot of files with tabs littered throughout, and I'd like to convert them all into spaces. I know about the expand command, but unfortunately I would have to type out every single file using it. Is there any easier way to do this on Linux?
View 2 Replies View RelatedHow do you convert tabs to spaces?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI writing a script to go through multiple reports. I want to grep daemon.debug @10.10.10.10 on all reports to make sure it is pointing to the right IP address. the problems is the space between debug and @10 are different on all the reports, some have one space some have two and some have tabs how do I ignore the tabs or spaces and grep daemon.debug @10.10.10.10
daemon.debug /var/log/ftp rotate size 20m files 4 compress
daemon.debug @10.10.10.10
authpriv.* /var/log/secure rotate size 20m files 4 compress
authpriv.* @10.10.10.10
How to make mcedit not replace tabs with 8 spaces?
View 2 Replies View RelatedThis is not a big deal in the grand scheme, but more an annoyance. I allowed Ubuntu (Karmic) to do some updates today. now, in the File Browser, there is no longer a tab bar. Before, there was the bar located beneath the address bar that was similar to Firefox, that had the + to open new tabs. Now it is gone and I do not see an option for a tab bar anywhere. I realize i can right-click on the tree on the left to open a new tab, but I REALLY liked the original feature. Anyone know how to get it back?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have an old Brooktrout ISDN fax card on BRI used mostly for receiving faxes. It works with windows fax server software which sends faxes to different e-mail boxes according to telephone number on which fax was send.
Since card is getting rather old and I don particulary like server software I wonder has anyone got any practice with linux fax servers. What I need is ISDN fax card and software which is able to save fax as a picture to file and somehow retain telephone number (filename or directory name). Sending picture by email is than trivial task.
I tried Suse five or six years ago and ran into an issue that was not comfortable to work with so I went back to windows. The problem was open spaces between words was not permitted with my music files. I have transferred all of my CDs and LPs to MP3 and have a tremendous number of them and the Suse of five years ago required I convert a title like Foggy Mountain Special.mp3 into something resembling Foggy_Mountain_Special.mp3
I don't care to convert literally a hundred thousand titles to fit the latter format. Does the current version of Suse allow the use of spaces between the words or is the 'no open space' convention still required?
I have a laptop that I am in through SSH. The laptop does not have an Xwindow system so I am using the program fbi to open an image on my laptop screen from my SSH connection:
fbi -T 8 picture.jpg #this opens the image on the laptops tty8 terminal
I've found that making a for loop does not work with files that contain a space in the name. Something to due with a bug that they call a "feature" that stops the first variable at the first whitespace.
Using a "while" loop is not exactly what i require either seeing as I want to be able to view each image in the directory on screen and tag it accordingly, before it jumps off to the next image, and I'm not sure how to add a pause to a while loop.
How do I make a Bash script and loop Variables handle files like "files that contain spaces.jpg"
How can I make vi and nano such that when I press the tab key, it automatically replaces the tab with 4 spaces?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI am trying to read a file character wise and trying to write the same character to another file. In this process, I unable to read and write white spaces successfully to the new file. The script reads the white spaces but while writing the white space is lost. The section of the code, is given below. Please advice how can i read and retain the white space while writing to a new file.
Code:
if [ -s f_test.txt ] && [ -f f_test.txt ]; then
echo "File Exists !!"
while read -n1 char; do
[code]....
I often get files with many spaces as part of their names. I would like to automatically replace these spaces with underscores, but otherwise not change the file name. Is there a way to do this task with just the bash shell?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI'm hoping that someone can help me, I need to remove spaces (not replace with underscores) from several thousand files on a system with cygwin.
Can I do this from the shell using rename or mv somehow?
I'm using fedora 11. I want to do some operation like after saving a file (moving ,copying,..) the system need to ask that "DO you want to encrypt?" . If yes I am able to run the crypt module (which I already implemented..). Is it possible to invoke a encrypt module which I implemented in c language.
View 2 Replies View Relatedtrying to write my thesis in Lyx 1.6. It works fine on my windows laptop at home but Not on my work computer. The problem is, when i try to view it in pdflatex it comes with with: Lyx: file name error The directory path to the document cannot contain spaces
View 1 Replies View RelatedI wanted to copy one file to multiple new files. I have an idea to write a script and do the operation. But here i m looking for any particular command to do this operation.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have files a, b, c and d. They're all relatively large and are served up by a static web server optimized for this purpose. I can get requests that look like this:
/abcd
/ad
/bacdac
...
Each request is basically a request for a concatenation of the files in the order of the letters. The list of possible requests is finite, but large enough that disk space will run out very quickly and be very expensive if I create all possible files via concatenation.Is there a way to create a pointer file like abcd that is essentially a multi-file symlink that first points to a then to be then to c then to d? So if the contents of the files were as follows:
a: hello
b: there
c: whats
[code]....
I have a single file that contain multi-text something likes this:
Quote:
No. Time Source Destination Protocol Info
185 27712.068199 192.168.18.23 192.168.18.191 SMTP S: 250 2.1.5 Ok
No. Time Source Destination Protocol Info
186 27715.068293 192.168.0.50 192.168.5.2 TCP suncacao-jmxmp > 44693 [ACK] Seq=1 Ack=1 Win=64807 Len=1380
[Code].....
I got myself a .bashrc file off the net. I checked it beforehand, didn't detect anything bad about it. One thing that's odd about it, is that several spaces are added to the terminal command line.Screenshot:Those spaces are not put there by me. The file can be found here: [URL]..
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am trying to rename a lot of files but need to keep the extension :
the files are films names :
a.b.c.d.***.iso
the result should be replacing "." by spaces " "
this command :
for files in *.iso ; do mv "$files" `echo "$files" | tr '.' ' '`; done
put a space also before the extension iso ??
How can I rename files from
"a.b.c.d.iso" to "a b c d.iso"
I`ve been given a project to design a program that will interface with a hardware device through the parallel port.And so far it`s not going go. I managed to write the programe an compiled it, but when runing it the compiler says: 'changing ownership of'and then the file name then it continues to say, 'operation not permitted'.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have Ubuntu installed in a virtual machine (VirtualBox) with a separate virtual drive that receives rsync backups of some of my online servers.Itns a series of 4 rsync commands. The first two ran fine, not sure about the third and the fourth wrote nothing. The error in rsync said the file system was read only. I confirmed the whole drive was read only, but it did not start that way.I rebooted and the fourth rsync ran fine. I think this is a linux issue and not a VM issue, but it is clearly mounting in r-w and for some reason changed on it own to read only.Does anyone have any idea why this might occur?It is mounted through fstab with the line:UUID=84d4bc5c-7a68-4096-9725-214f2e8b713e /BackupDrive ext3 defaults 0 2
View 4 Replies View RelatedI'm having a problem where I'm unable to delete a file, even as root. Any attempts to remove or otherwise modify the file result in 'Operation not permitted'.
# rm d91c6a6e_2a2d7_out.xml
rm: remove regular file `d91c6a6e_2a2d7_out.xml'? y
rm: cannot remove `d91c6a6e_2a2d7_out.xml': Operation not permitted
Fedora 12 gcc 4.4.1 I am doing some programming, and my program gave me a stack dump. However, there is no core file for me to examine.
So I did:
Code:
ulimit -c unlimited
and got this error message:
Code:
bash: ulimit: core file size: cannot modify limit: Operation not permitted I also tried setting ulimit to 50000 and still got the same error. The results of ulimit -a:
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$ ulimit -a
core file size (blocks, -c) 0
data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited
scheduling priority (-e) 0
file size (blocks, -f) unlimited
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