WebClient.DownloadString() returns string with peculiar characters
I have an issue with some content that we are downloading from the web for a screen scraping tool that I am building.
special-characters
Regex for removing only specific special characters from string
I’d like to write a regex that would remove the special characters on following basis:
removing emojis from a string in Python
I found this code in Python for removing emojis but it is not working. Can you help with other codes or fix to this?
How do I remove a file I accidentally created named $file?
I was working on a shell script and I accidentally created a file with the variable as its name. Now I have $file in my ls output, and cannot remove it. What can I do?
Grep: unexpected results when searching for words in heading from man page
I’m running into weird behavior when trying to grep a man page on macOS. For example, the Bash man page clearly has an occurrence of the string NAME:
Understanding Unix file name encoding
I have a hard time understanding how the file name encoding works. On unix.SE
I find contradicting explanations.
How safe is it to cat an arbitrary file?
Sometimes when I cat a binary file by mistake, my terminal gets garbled up. Nothing a quick reset can’t fix, but couldn’t an attacker theoretically create a file that, when displayed on a terminal, would execute some arbitrary code? Through an exploit in the terminal emulator or otherwise.
How to display control characters (^C, ^D, ^[, …) differently in the shell
When you type control characters in the shell they get displayed using what is called “caret notation”. Escape for example gets written as ^[ in caret notation.
What does the tilde (~) mean at the end of a filename?
What is the file with the ~ at the end of the filename for? $ ls # aliased to add flags -rwxrwxr-x 1 durrantm 2741 May 16 09:28 strip_out_rspec_prep_cmds.sh~* drwxrwxr-x 13 durrantm 4096 May 16 14:21 ../ -rwxrwxr-x 1 durrantm 2221 May 16 14:58 strip_out_rspec_prep_cmds.sh* This is not the same as .swp files which are … Read more
Match with grep when pattern contains hyphen “-“
I wrote the following command in order to match $a with $b, but when the value includes “-“, then I get an error. How can I avoid that?