Ubuntu :: Want To Replace File With New Name?
Mar 19, 2010
ive been trying to move 170gb of music from my computer to my new archos 500gbwindows isnt an option as ubuntu is my only os from now onanyway my problem is some songs are same names and theres so many of them itd be a complete bitch to change the namesso when i go to add them they say replace or skip... is there anyway i can get the option like on windows where you add but it adds a (2) to it? or am i gonna go the hard way?
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Jul 28, 2009
I have script that I'm working on that updates a username in all the files that are called blah.inc for my framework. since i host a bunch of these web apps i need to do it to all of them. so I need to figure out how to update these files automagically with out me watching it to call vim every time. heres what I have so far
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This finds the files but now i need to figure out how to do s/bob/fred/g on those files.
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Nov 2, 2010
I currently have Ubuntu Desktop 10.10 installed and have a great setup. However, I'm trying to install another OS on the hard drive and need to remove a partition. I've read online that I can remove the Swap partition and use a "Swap file". My question is this: Is it possible to replace the Swap partition with a "swap file" without having to re-install linux?
Dual-booting: Mac OS X 10.6.3 / Ubuntu Desktop 10.10
Macbook Pro 6,1
2.8 GHz Intel Core i7, 4 GB RAM
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Mar 1, 2011
I have a file, "outfile" what I wish to insert into a file called template where it finds "OVERRIDES". I am getting an error.
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However I can do something like this and it works fine
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I am guessing its because of the file size or multiple lines.
A sample of the outfile text is below
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Oct 18, 2010
I have a jar, and I need to replace a class in it, at this moment, I can only open it with "archive manager" and then drag and drop the new compiled class into the jar, but I think this is really boring, if I can do with with just a command ?
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May 18, 2011
How can I make vi and nano such that when I press the tab key, it automatically replaces the tab with 4 spaces?
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Jun 30, 2011
I have an odd request, lets say I have a text file like this:
Quote:
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__##___##___IIIIII
__##___##_____II__
__##___##_____II__
__#######_____II__
__##___##_____II__
__##___##_____II__
__##___##___IIIIII
I want a script that will replace all of the hash tabs with random characters.I found this command will generate a random character
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apg -a1 -n1 -m1 -x1 -d
how to script a search and replace using that random character upon each successive find until the end of file occurs.
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Dec 1, 2010
I trying to change a file with hundreds of entries, replacing line with "IP Address Number" for "Host Name", one for another.
this is the original: [IP Address Configuration : "172_17_27_161.SUBNET_U"] IP Address Number = 172.17.27.161Assignment Type = 8Host Name = CAST124Last Used = 1290499294000MAC Address = 1 00 16 35 74 4C 59Client Identifier = 01 00 16 35 74 4C 59and the result desired is: [IP Address Configuration : "172_17_27_161.SUBNET_U"]Host Name = CAST124Assignment Type = 8IP Address Number = 172.17.27.161Last Used = 1290499294000MAC Address = 1 00 16 35 74 4C 59Client Identifier = 01 00 16 35 74 4C 59I know how to change one character by another with sed, but not to change a line for another, because I don't know in which line number it is.
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Jun 11, 2010
I want to replace a pattern in a file.The file format is given below.
111111
path=/home/fun/
222222
path=/home/fun/
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I want to replace "path=/home/fun" with another pattern, but only under "111111", all the others should be the same.
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Nov 7, 2010
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/$/,/g" filename) but somehow I can't seem to remove new line character from each line.
sed 's/[
]*$//' doesn't seem to work.
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May 14, 2010
I have the following values in my log file:
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2010-05-13 11:00:00 k_TRANSFER OK (11)
2010-05-13 11:30:01 m_TRANSFER OK (21)
2010-05-13 12:00:00 k_TRANSFER OK (12)
2010-05-13 12:30:00 m_TRANSFER OK (32)
2010-05-13 13:00:00 m_TRANSFER OK (13)
...
I want to replace every number with it's decrement. For example, the above values should be:
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2010-05-13 11:00:00 k_TRANSFER OK (10)
2010-05-13 11:30:01 m_TRANSFER OK (20)
2010-05-13 12:00:00 k_TRANSFER OK (11)
2010-05-13 12:30:00 m_TRANSFER OK (31)
2010-05-13 13:00:00 m_TRANSFER OK (12)
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Feb 28, 2009
I've found some scripts that replaces a string in a file but it's not quite working for me.
And I'm trying to replace a tag in an xml file that looks like this
So I ran a command line like this perl -w -i -p -e "s/xmlns="'http://mydomain.org/replacethese.xsd'">/>/g" testfile.xml
And I get a error output
Search pattern not terminated at -e line 1.
Found the script from this blog [url]
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Jan 8, 2010
There are a few things I was wondering about (using tools available in bash):How to insert a file at at the specified location of another.How to copy a portion of a file between two lines matching a regex to another file (and/or making sed only work between two lines matching a regex)How would you do this?
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Apr 1, 2010
Normally in my music collection, I have some songs that are the same song, just in a different album. When transferring files onto my MP3 player, if it detects the same name for the song, even though they are on different albums, it says that I have to either replace the file, retry, or cancel.
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Apr 3, 2010
I'm having problems with Tomboy. I have a few hundred note files and I need to go through all of them and replace all instances of "<link:broken>a</link:broken>" with "a". Is there a bash command I can use to do this?
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May 18, 2011
I have been searching for a few hours now trying to figure out the best way to have Ubuntu Server 8.10 copy and replace a file every week.
So for example:
File A (original file)
File B (replacement file)
I would want to copy File B from its location and replace File A each week automatically with out removing or destroying File B.
I've thought of doing a cron since I already have a job set for email piping. but I'm unsure of the best way to complete this task.
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Jun 22, 2010
the last filed of /etc/passwd file is the login_shell;how if I replace it to /usr/bin/date
what would it happen.by the way I try to use $ subut do't know the password.what s the default root passworf for ubuntu
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Nov 26, 2009
I want to replace a certain line of a file, my bash script looks like:
#!/bin/sh
sentence="if [ -e /home/inf/Download/$playlist ]"
sed '4c
$sentence' oldfile > newfile
mv -f newfile oldfile
But the variable $sentence can not be identified in ' ' . And also you can see I just want to update the old file. But the sed command can not save the file for me ,so I need to write them to a new file and over write the new file .
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Aug 11, 2010
i need to change a binary file, let's say to find and replace username:
find string: "/home/name/bla-bla-bla/ "
new string: "/home/anewname/bla-bla-bla/ "
i can do it, for example, in emacs (hexl-mode), but interesting in writing a script instead. it will be much more better for me if i could do it automatically. is there an analog of: sed 's/string1/string2/g' ? P.S. the best way is to recompile the binary files i have, but there are no sources available.
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May 30, 2010
i got the slackware folder with my builds of my favorites packages, in /tmp i create the new versions of that packages. theres is a way in bash to replace the new ones in /tmp with the old ones in /home/user/slackware??
something like..... in /tmp: mv -i package1.tgz /home/user/slackware | and somethin to replace the old version of the app with the new one
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Dec 9, 2009
how to use a variable in a sed command, but I can't get the output into a variable.
FILE=readme.txt
now i want to remove the extension of filename
so file woud be:
FILE=readme
my script:
NFILE=`echo $FILE | sed 's/.txt//'`
mv ../out/$FILE ../out/$NFILE
FILE=$NFILE
now when i run my script. i get this unknown character extensions in my new file(NFILE).
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Mar 24, 2011
I have a file with special characters that need to be replaced. I've been working on this for a day and have run out of time.
Example: FILE='/var/tmp/S0000000.LOG.March-24-2011:10:51.tar'
Need to replace the ' with a " on all lines in the file.
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Apr 5, 2010
I know how to replace a particular instance (say 3rd one) of a word in a line using sed based on the sed one-liners. However I would like to replace a particular instance of a word in the entire file.
For example, here is a file:
Code:
John
Betty
Jack
Ron
Jack
Paul
So now I would like to replace the second instance of Jack (in red color) with "Rob" (for example). Not quite sure how to do that? I tried couple of things from here but they did not work.
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Jun 30, 2011
I have question about replacing a string in a file.
How can I replace the printerb's 10.1.1.1 to something else(10.1.1.2, for example) without replace printera's 10.1.1.1 accidentally?
I have tried perl -e -pi "s/10.1.1.1/10.1.1.2/g" /etc/hosts. but, perl replace both 10.1.1.1 to 10.1.1.2.
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Mar 28, 2011
We receive this large file which is generated as a HTML page.So anybody can view it with a web brower.A few lines from this file ...
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<tr><td><font color="#555555" size="3" face="Tahoma, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica"> 1999 <font color="#cc6600" size="5">←</font> <font color="#0066ff" size="4">03</font>-27
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Apr 29, 2011
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:
OLD_STRING='<property name="webServiceHost">${jboss.bind.address}</property>'
NEW_STRING='<!--<property name="webServiceHost">${jboss.bind.address}</property>-->'
[Code]....
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Jul 28, 2011
I have a large number of log files, on a linux box, I need to cleanse sensitive data from before sending to a third party. I have used the below script on previous occasions to perform this task, and it has worked brilliantly (script was built with some help from here :-)
#!/bin/bash
help_text () {
cat <<EOF
Usage: $0 [log_directory] [client_name(s)]
EOF
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However, now one of our departments has sent me a CLIENT_FILE.txt with 425000+ variables! I think I may have hit some internal limit. I have tried splitting the client file into 4 with around 100000 variables in each, this still doesn't work. I'm loathe to keep splitting though as I have 20 directories with up to 190 files in each directory to run through. The more client files I make, the more passes I have to do.
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Jan 11, 2011
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?
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Feb 11, 2011
I have an SQL dump, file.sql that has many references to a particular domain, d1.com. I would like to run a command that can replace every occurrence of d1.com with d2.com. I've tried looking into sed before but the man pages are quite daunting.
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Aug 31, 2010
Need to replace the following string :
By
In multiple .exp files and in sub directories.
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