On 2010-09-27, at 12:42 PM, Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson wrote:
Hi, all.
The other day I was trying to execute a command on all subdirectories (recursively) and files, even though these files and directories contained non-alphanumeric characters and space. I found my answer on StackOverflow eventually, but there were a lot of different approaches to it, some utilizing commands like "awk", "gawk" (which I'm told is just a GNU version), but in my 13 years on Linux, I've never found the serenity to learn all those crazy text processing commands.
So perhaps, if someone is well versed in text/file/directory processing, a short lecture on the most powerful commands might be useful. Just an idea. :)
A quick response and test of a newly configured mail program... When dealing with filenames with "evil characters" you can always enclose the filename in single quotes ("'"). I use this when dealing with video files someone created under M$.
Kind regards, Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson helgi@binary.s
Later Mike
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Sean Cody sean@tinfoilhat.ca wrote: We are quickly powering through our current RTFM pool.
Since the point of the exercise is to educate the group it seems only reasonable to find out what commands/systems the group would like to hear about?
That being said, is there any command/system you were always curious about but haven't found time to investigate? What about a command you are using but you are unsure if you are getting the full potential out of it? Any particular command you enjoy using that you think other people could benefit from?
Let us know and we'll add it to the pool.
-- Sean P.S. While we would really like members to present RTFM, just giving us an idea of the things you want to learn about will help a lot.
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