Ubuntu :: Return A List Of Files Without The Extensions?
Jan 3, 2011
I am writing a bash shell script and I am trying to use a select case to modify a few files with the same filename but different extensions (i.e. problem.tex problem.log problem .pdf etc.)
It goes something like this:
Select item in $list
do
compile $item.tex
open $item.pdf
delete $item.log
break
done
exit
Right now my list is list=$( find . -maxdepth 1 -name "*.tex" ) which returns a list only from the current directory of all files ending in .tex so when I try to open the resulting .pdf file I get the error:
error: file problem.tex.pdf doesn't exist
So I'm trying to find a way to use just the name in a select menu.
I have a directory of a load of files without extensions. I know what the filetype should be, so is there any way of batch renaming the files to append a given extension onto it. i.e. text would be renamed as text.txt?
I going through the Python course on Codeacademy. I have some trouble understanding what I'm doing wrong. This is my code below:
Code: Select alldef count(sequence, item):   total = 0   for x in sequence:     return x     if x in sequence:       total += 1   return total print count([1,2,1,1], 1 )
The code gives me an error: "Oops, try again. Your function fails on count([1],7). It returns 1 when it should return 0."
It should be outputting 3 because 1 occurs 3 times in the list.
I have some directories with a varying numbers of files and subdirectories. All files that have no extensions have to be tared. Their names may change, thus they can not be hardcoded. Subdirectories may also contain a unspecified number of files and subdirectories that are not relevant and should not be included in the archive.
I'd like to be able to do this with a single line, not using any .sh scripts, so that this process could be reproduced as portably as possible.
Sample directory structure:
$ ls -1F bar-dir/ bar.with.dots foo-directory/ foo-no-ext
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#!/bin/sh # Wget script to retrieve modules from slax.org modules # # ----Begin of user defined values ----- # Path to wget
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Code:
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Code:
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