Recursively rename e-mail files from .txt to .eml
Directory “$d” contains a few thousand e-mail files with the .txt extension. To open them in my e-mail client, I need to rename them to .eml
Unix & Linux
Is it safe to use & and output redirection instead of nohup?
There’s a wealth of stack exchange answers regarding nohup, here’s a couple for reference:
When do you need ‘nohup’ if you’re already forking using ‘&’?
Why use “nohup &” rather than “exec &”
limit find output AND avoid signal 13
I have a directory with ~1M files and need to search for particular patterns. I know how to do it for all the files:
clear full-screen in script and get the previous prompts after exiting script
Today I was using glance tool in my office to monitor CPU utilization.When I run glance from terminal ,the command clears the screen and after all the work when I quit back to the terminal,the previous prompts are still there on my screen.I mean that I can see all the previous lines.My question is how is this effect of clearing screen achieved.If they had used command like clear,It should have cleared the whole screen,how did they manage to get back all the previous prompts ? I want to implement the same feature for some of my scripts.
Using a reference to a bash string variable in sed
I’m a relative Linux novice. Suppose that I have a text file a.txt that contains the following text:
Delete all files in a directory whose name do not match a line in a file list
I have a directory with 1000+ files. In a text file, I have about 50 filenames, one per line. I’d like to delete all the files in the directory whose filenames don’t correspond with an entry on the list. What’s the best way to do this? I started a shell script, but couldn’t determine the proper command to determine in the filename is on the list. Thanks.
Renaming files to have lower case extensions with ‘rename’
I’m trying to currently rename a large set of files and have been using quite kludgy methods to do so, such as:
Find pattern and move
I’m wondering if anybody knows how to find a pattern and then move it to a different location.
Daemontools multilog loses log line time information. How to fix it?
I am using daemontools to monitor a process and its output log. I am using multilog to write the logs to disk.
Why do multiple instances of Mate-terminal have the same PID?
I’ve noticed, that all mate-terminal instances I start, be it inside a mate-terminal or via a link button, have the same PID.