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Possible Duplicate: How can I make iconv replace the input file with the converted output? I frequently connect to amazon ec2 using their public DNS names (ec2-12-34-56-78.compute-1.amazonaws.com) ...
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Possible Duplicate: How can I make iconv replace the input file with the converted output? Can I read and write to the same file in Linux without overwriting it? $ cat test.txt This is a test ...
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I wanted to tail the last 100 lines of a file to the same file, but the command tail -n 100 file > file doesn't work, I assume because the stdout gets written to the file 'live', before everything ...
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I have a website where I'm formatting sass (.scss) files with the sass-convert command. Its syntax is this: $> sass-convert original.scss formatted.scss Since I'm in a git repo, having a separate ...
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cat package.yaml > package.yaml The above will truncate package.yaml, and hence the file will be empty - cat will have empty output. How can I avoid truncating the file? Is there an alternative to ...
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Possible Duplicate: How can I make iconv replace the input file with the converted output? I'm writing a script to change the content of my hosts file but I got stuck on the head output ...
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I often see tutorials online that connect various commands with different symbols. For example: command1 | command2 command1 & command2 command1 || command2 command1 && command2 ...
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I have a fairly large file (35Gb), and I would like to filter this file in situ (i.e. I don't have enough disk space for another file), specifically I want to grep and ignore some patterns — is there ...
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Is there no option like --in-place for sort? In order to save results to the input file, sed uses -i (--in-place). Redirecting the output of sort to the input file sort < f > f results in ...
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Is there a way to only execute a command after another is done without a temp file? I have one longer running command and another command that formats the output and sends it to a HTTP server using ...
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I know this is sort of a duplicate of another question (Why this sort command gives me an empty file?) but I wanted to expand on the question in response to the answers given. The command shuf ...
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I was trying to quickly edit an .hgignore file from the Cygwin bash shell today, and I added a line that was a mistake. I'm not sure if this was the best way to do it, but I quickly thought of using ...
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This is my linux box: CentOS Linux release 6.0 (Final) x86_64 Using a text editor (vi, or pico...) I see strange characters for accented letters (è, ì, à, ù) This is my locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 ...
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I was running a little bash script on some text files: find . -name "*.dat" -exec iconv --from-code='UTF-8' --to-code='ASCII//TRANSLIT' {} --output={} \; My machine is a Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. After a ...
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I have many txt files in a folder. Each file contains one line in this format; 8852 0.53451 0.55959 0.65494 0.36047 I would like to add, in the next line, a fixed number and the rest 4 columns ...
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