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How can I remove all files by pattern from bash with except for specific files? [duplicate]
I try to automatically remove all files from directory but exclude the specific files
The syntax $ rm *.!(vmx*|vmd*) works good if I run it from terminal, but if I create some bash script file (for ...
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script to find the Position of Substring in Given String bin/bash
we have to write a shell program that will tell the position (index) of the substring in a given string.
sample input:-
Code Quotient - Get Better at Programming
at
sample output :-
28
i have ...
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How can i copy the data from subdirectories to one level above using Linux
I have the directory and file structures like below.
path/A/1/a/11.txt
path/A/1/a/12.txt
path/A/2/a/21.txt
path/A/3/a/31.txt
I want to copy these files to another path but one level above. Please ...
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Close terminal window once application is opened
Is it possible to close the parent terminal window once an application has been loaded?
I have a program I need to run using root privileges to work properly and currently I have made a script file ...
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keying in password through a bash file
I have written a bash script that downloads several movies from different directories in a remote cluster. My problem is that the bash file asks me my password in the remote cluster for downloading &...
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I need to bruteforce a 4-digit-pin locked executable program in Linux terminal. Help? I am new to Linux
I have a program called program-5.exe that takes one 4-digit argument. If it is correct, I get access and complete the challenge but otherwise it just denies access. What I think I mainly need to know ...
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How to pass a date-like argument [closed]
I want to,pass a j argument where j= date +%d%m%Y in my shell script, so how to pass that inside for loop
#!/bin/sh
for ((i=1;i<=25;i++))
do
wget --output-document=$i.jpg http://sambadepaper.com/...
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Terminal unable to recognise shell script commands
I've a shell script that updates the proxy settings on my system.
I tried running the command chmod +x filename.sh which ran successfully. And then I ran ./filename.sh on the terminal that also ran ...
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Want the terminal output (stderr and stdout) of the previous command executed in terminal
I'm trying to store both stdout and stderr from the terminal (and if possible stdin given by user) in a file for every command.
So I started creating a trap function to execute every command in an ...
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How to count number of files in a directory that are over a certain file size [duplicate]
Is there a way to count how many files in a specific directory are over some file size? Say, 100 MB?
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How can I generate random answer string like "yes,no,maybe maybe not?
I dont know how can I generate random answer.
exemple result:
user:~$ ./question.sh do you love me ?
user:~$ yes
or
user:~$ ./question.sh do you hate me ?
user:~$ maybe
I try to put all the String ...
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open a new terminal, let it stay, and switch back to original terminal, run command [duplicate]
I want implement like this
at terminal A, open a new terminal B, run command in B, leave B runing, and back to terminal A, run other command.
I have following script, but not what I expected
#!/bin/...
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Terminal commands not working
I moved all files starting with lib from /../ to some folder as,
mv /../lib* /to/some/folder
after which I can't move it back.It comes as
-bash: /bin/mv: /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2: bad ELF ...
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Why do Linux command line scripts use '-' and '--' as a parameter prefix? [duplicate]
Why do scripts in Linux use - and -- as parameter prefixes?
What I mean is why do they use - (for example $ git --help) instead of something like >, (so it would be $ git >>help) or even ...
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strange characters in the log file from bash + how to avoid them ?
I am not understand why we got the following strange characters in out log
example -
^[[1m
or
^[(B^
or
^[[1m
or
^[(B^[[
or
^[[1m
from the log: ( example )
STATUS OF SERVICES
^[(B^...
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