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Braiam

1:05 AM

@Ramesh fixed it for ya

terdon

1:51 AM

@Braiam How?

@Ramesh just include the script and leave a comment explaining to the OP. 89 linesis not that long. Otherwise, flag it.

Whatever you do, don't just silently downvote when it is a new user. That just pushes people away.

Braiam

2:14 AM

@terdon check the question

also, his script is just too complicated to be useful

you can achieve the same with the first answer

terdon

@Braiam Ah, I thought you meant you'd fixed the answer.

@Braiam That's how I feel about most things in python :) Still, if it gets the job done, we may as well include the code.

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No Time

5:39 AM

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KasiyA

8:43 AM

@cuonglm

Is there a shortest command for this:
sed -i.bak 's/[0-9.]//g' file ;for word in $(<file);do grep -onw "$word" file ;done|awk -F':' '{print $2":"$1}'| sort -u

Thank you

related to this question; How do I use awk to create an index of words in file?

cuonglm

@KasiyA: Did you read my answer? You can do all things with awk

KasiyA

9:07 AM

but it gave me error:

awk: cmd. line:7: END {
awk: cmd. line:7: ^ syntax error
awk: cmd. line:11: }
awk: cmd. line:11: ^ unexpected newline or end of string

@cuonglm

cuonglm

9:21 AM

@KasiyA: My mistake, missiong }, added it.

KasiyA

Thank you.

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KasiyA

10:30 AM

Q: How to pass '*' wildcard to path parameter of find command via a variable in script?

I want to use find to find files in a set of folders restricted by wildcards, but where there are spaces in the path name. From the command line, this is easy. The following examples all work. find te*/my\ files/more -print find te*/'my files'/more -print find te*/my' 'files/more -print ...

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Braiam

11:24 PM

Q: Feedback Requested: Search Engine Usage

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I know @slm has complains about the search engine

slm

@Braiam - thanks, yeah the search is very so so on SE

Braiam

A: How to close a question as "This question already has an answer here"?

Marking Question1 as a duplicate of Question2 says that anyone wishing to post an answer to Q1 should instead post their answer under Q2. This is problematic when Q1 may also be answered in a way Q1 that is not applicable to Q2. So, the fact that a particular answer to Q2 also answers Q1 is no...