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Regex command line argument is expanded [duplicate]
I am trying to pass a regex pattern as an argument to my script as follows:
bash script.sh '[a-z]*[0-9]*'
in my script I am assigning it to a variable
FIRST_ARG=$1
using echo $FIRST_ARG results in ...
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How to introduce support for command line options in a script that is written to use positional arguments?
I have a script that is currently used with positional arguments, like this:
./script.sh fname lname address
I want to also support ordinary command line options when I call this script, so that I ...
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How to grep command line argument on which RegEx has been applied?
I'm trying to write a script that takes as input a set of integers representing certain /dev/sda's. For example, if the command line arguments are 3 & 5, the output will show the UUID for /dev/...
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Selecting non-existent files with wildcard/regex
I'm trying to convert hundreds of *.jpg files to *.webp files with libwebp on macOS. Particularly, I want to use the command line tool cwebp to perform the conversion. It works like this:
cwebp <...
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Find files with extensions given in arguments using regex
Let's say a have a following command
search /home/user proc .h .c .txt ...
I am building a script with find command to get all files that start with given name and end with one of given extensions.
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