How to exclude some files from filename expansion mechanism in bash?
I have ubuntu file system directories in the root directory and I accidentally copied hundreds of files into root directory.
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Padding trailing whitespaces in a string with another character
I’d like to output hello world over 20 characters.
How to create an array of unique elements from a string/array in bash?
If I have a string “1 2 3 2 1” – or an array [1,2,3,2,1] – how can I select the unique values, i.e.
tmux status-bar corrupted after catting a binary file, how to reset?
I accidentally screw up my tmux terminal after cating a binary file. Now my tmux is messed up. Detaching and re-attaching doesn’t help, nor does a redraw (C-b r). Running reset only redraws the active pane, not the rest. Running ssty sane either in- or outside tmux doesn’t help either.
Is there any way to exit “less” follow mode without stopping other processes in pipe?
Often times I find myself in need to have the output in a buffer with all the features (scrolling, searching, shortcuts, …) and I have grown accustomed to less.
Trouble in script with spaces in filename
I’ve got a script that scp’s a file from remote host back to local. Sometimes the file names contain spaces. scp does not like spaces in its file names. For some reason my attempts at handling the spaces have not resulted in the correct scp path.
Pipelined Sed does not work on found filename inside Bash command substitution when invoked from Find “-exec”
./sample.txt Specimen_before.TXT ./sample.TXT Specimen_after.TXT
Unable to simulate Ctrl+Shift+Fn+F10 Key press
I have an ubuntustudio 16.10 64 bit on an IBM Thinkpad E431. I am able to launch an app from a shell script, but the next step involves pressing Ctrl+Shift+F10 On my notebook I need to press the button Fn before F10 . I use xfce Desktop. I am unable to simulate this in a shell script. I had also disabled my touchpad but did not help.
Can command substitution be nested in variable substitution?
I would like to use variable substitution on a particular string that I access via a command. For example, if I copy something into my clipboard, I can access it like this.
Output of which command used for input to cd
I would like to take the output of a which command, and cd to the parent directory. For example, say I have the following: