Thanks, all!
>From a private post (sorry about my breach of etiquette...) Bob Proulx
suggested:
> for i in *.gif?; do echo mv --verbose -- "$i" ${i%?}; done
Which echoed the response I wanted. I had tried one of the previous
suggestions and I got some puzzling output:
>> mv: `img.bc05.101.3.
On 2008-08-29, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Tony Zanella wrote:
>> I have a directory listing of files like:
>> img.bc03.547.1.gif?
>> I need to trim the last character off for each file in the dir.
>> I know I can use:
>> mv img.bc03.547.1.gif? img.bc03.547.1.gif
>> to rename each by hand, but I want to do
Tony Zanella wrote:
> I have a directory listing of files like:
> img.bc03.547.1.gif?
> I need to trim the last character off for each file in the dir.
> I know I can use:
> mv img.bc03.547.1.gif? img.bc03.547.1.gif
> to rename each by hand, but I want to do this as a batch.
> I know it would start
Hello all,
I have a directory listing of files like:
img.bc03.547.1.gif?
I need to trim the last character off for each file in the dir.
I know I can use:
mv img.bc03.547.1.gif? img.bc03.547.1.gif
to rename each by hand, but I want to do this as a batch.
I know it would start with:
for files in *;
Hector Chu wrote:
input-line.sh is:
bash ./input-line.sub
this line for input-line.sub
with input-line.sub being:
read line
echo line read by $0 was \`$line\'
The test is run by executing: bash < input-line.sh.
How does input-line.sub manage to read from the correct point in the
input file?
input-line.sh is:
bash ./input-line.sub
this line for input-line.sub
with input-line.sub being:
read line
echo line read by $0 was \`$line\'
The test is run by executing: bash < input-line.sh.
How does input-line.sub manage to read from the correct point in the
input file? Doesn't the parent b
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 8:25 PM, juliodm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I'm writing a bash script to that will execute commands from a database.
> What I mean is that the MySQL database contains commands that bash will pull
> and then run itself.
>
> My problem is that some of the commands contain
I'm writing a bash script to that will execute commands from a database.
What I mean is that the MySQL database contains commands that bash will pull
and then run itself.
My problem is that some of the commands contain single quotes, as needed by
the shell app it plans to run.
When I write a line
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Jon Seymour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Forgive me if there is a more appropriate forum for discussing this
> topic, but it wasn't obvious from a cursory glance at the web pages
> that there was one.
>
> I was wondering if anyone has ever developed a module system
Dear Jon,
I seem to remember that bash does have a path that it checks for function
definitions but a quick search didn't turn it up. Google is not the best way
to go because it returns far too many hits. Looking at the bash source code is
probably quickest. I can't remember how it works -
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