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Generate upper-case in a udev rule?
I have a use case with cross-platform context which makes me want to generate symlinks under a /dev/disk/by-X directory that have an uppercase version of data returned by blkid. Is there a built-in ...
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Writing bash arguments with trunctation
I want to print the first two arguments of a bash function, with the unicode character \u2263 on each side using a two space separation. The thing is that the final unicode must display at column 70. ...
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Merge multiple files and format output into columns with line wrap
I'm trying to show multiple files to a user within less. These files have relatively long lines and contain the same text but in different languages (differences in line length to be expected). ...
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Sed change a tag and keep part of the contents
I have a large text file with multiple occurrences of a tag containing a URL: [tag]https://example.com/222389/link/11835457224168404[/tag] I need to reformat the tags as follows: [new-tag]...
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format the shell script output as a table
I am running a script in a loop which creates some data as per some logic and then displays output in some combination but the output I am getting is in new line Roll number : 187437366 ...
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Indent output even for partial lines
I'm trying to indent the output of 'subcommands' in a script, like this: Turning off image... Unmounting...done. Detaching loop device...done where the indented items are individual steps ...
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3answers
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Parsing csv file to filter rows based on a matching set of characters from a column value
Consider the following csv file: A,3300 B,8440 B,8443 B,8444 C,304 C,404 M,5502 M,5511 The actual csv file is big (around 60,000 rows). I have only included a small version to describe ...
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How to restructure a date variable in bash
I have a bash script that takes user-inputed dates in this format: dd.mm.yyyy and saves it as a variable $date Now I need to modify this variable to be in this format: yyyymmdd for further use. So ...
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1answer
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Adjust columns in a table
I have this table which is messed up DB Size_in_MB foobar 11011.2 barfoo 4582.9 donkey 4220.8 shoryuken 555.9 hadouken 220.0 kong 214.8 super_mario_bros_p 211.1 there are unnecessary ...
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2answers
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Display grep output in table columns
I need to display grep output in table columns. I have a script that grab info from whois to display the creation, expiry date and ns server of specific domain names. #!/bin/sh cat domain-file.txt |...
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3answers
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How to left pad a column in Bash
I have a bash script that prints the following results: 120,900 1160,001 80,730 600,165 6,310 1111,203 I would like to left pad that so the result will be: 120,900 1160,001 80,730 600,165 6,...
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Bash - changing fileconfig format
I would like to change: THIS: client 192.168.100.1 { secret = ThisIStheSECRET shortname = HOSTNAME } client 192.168.100.2 { secret = ThisIStheSECRET2 shortname = HOSTNAME2 } THAT: ...
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Bash shell script output alignment
My script: date echo -e "${YELLOW}Network check${NC}\n\n" while read hostname do ping -c 1 "$hostname" > /dev/null 2>&1 && echo -e "Network $hostname : ${GREEN}Online${NC}" || ...
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1answer
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BASH | CSV formatted report
I need to create a report of all files renamed with the ff fields in the CSV formatted report (Output.rpt).I need an output that displays a. Column1 = Original Filename b. Column2 = Original ...
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4answers
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Print two files in two columns side-by-side
I want to output two text files in two columns — one on the left side and other one on the right. paste doesn't solve the problem, because it only insert a character as delimiter, so if the first file ...
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