Linked Questions

I would like to use sort to sort by ASCII value, or at least by not disregarding punctuation, i.e: sort <<DATA a.01 a.04 a2 a.3 a.2 DATA Should produce a.01 a.04 a.2 a.3 a2 Especially these ...

From manpage pm-action(8): /etc/pm/sleep.d, /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d Programs in these directories (called hooks) are combined and executed in C sort order before suspend and hibernate ...

I have temp file with some lower-case and upper-case contents. Input Contents of my temp file: hi Jigar GANDHI jiga I want to convert all upper to lower. Command I tried the following command: ...

ɛ ("Latin epsilon") is a letter used in certain African languages, usually to represent the vowel sound in English "bed". In Unicode it's encoded as U+025B, very distinct from everyday e. However, if ...

I have 3 directories at current path. $ls a_0db_data a_clean_0db_data a_clean_data $ls a_*_data a_0db_data: a_clean_0db_data: a_clean_data: $ls a_[a-z]*_data a_clean_0db_data: a_clean_data: I ...

I'm trying to find all files for which there name starts with a capital letter. I have tried using the following command: find . -type f -regex '.*\/[A-Z][^/]*' It's finding paths with only lowercase ...

I am French and use my Debian system in French. However, I would like to have error messages in terminal in English. It allows me to post them on English speaking websites. How can I change my ...

In Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS 64-bit bash I am declearing floating point variables by multiplying floating point bash variables in bc with scale set to 3; however, I cannot get the number of digits after the ...

I am using the ls command in bash, trying to find all files or directory of length n. Let's say n=5 My command is: ls ????? But this would also include characters that are non letters such as period....

I have the following path: /dir1/dir2/ In this path I have the following directories containing various (not relevant) application detrius: follower1234 1-Dec-2018 follower3456 2-Dec-2018 ...

I need to replace some non-printable characters with spaces in file. Specifically, all characters from 0x00 up to 0x1F, except 0x09 (TAB), 0x0A (new line), 0x0D (CR) Up until now, I just needed to ...

I'm using bash on Linux. I am getting a success from the following if statement, but shouldn't this return a fail code? if [[ ■ = [⅕⅖⅗] ]] ; then echo yes ; fi The square does NOT equal any of the ...

I am trying to find all 6 letter words using grep. I currently have this: grep "^.\{6\}$" myfile.txt However, I am finding that I am also getting results such as: étuis, étude. I suspect it has ...

I have a list of names like so: dog_bone dog_collar dragon cool_dragon lion lion_trainer dog I need to extract out names that appear in other names like so: dragon lion dog I looked through the uniq ...

I have a file like this: ID A56 DS /A56 DS AGE 56 And I'd like to print the whole line only if the second column starts with a capital letter. Expected output: ID A56 DS AGE 56 What I've ...