phogg

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May 3	comment	How can I rename a file whose name is in itself a full path (e.g. begins with “g:\”)? There's actually nothing invalid about this file name as far as NTFS is concerned, it's merely a limitation of Windows that prevents it from being properly referenced.
Mar 17	comment	apt-get “Broken packages” It would be helpful if you posted your complete sources.list (including anything from sources.list.d/), and also your apt-preference (/etc/apt/preferences) and the output of `dpkg -l '' \| grep ^h` (if any).
Jul 10	awarded	Caucus
May 22	comment	Test if a package is installed in APT While this is doubtless correct I find that `dpkg-query -l "$package" \| grep -q ^.i` is usually sufficient (and easier to remember).
Apr 27	answered	Is there any way to keep text passed to head, tail, less, etc. to be colored?
Dec 15	comment	logout without being at login shell Just kill the login shell. Identifying the PID is the only issue.
Dec 6	comment	How to check if a directory exists in Windows? @grawity: If it exists but is a file the script will probably fail later when trying to use it as a directory, which probably isn't what you want.
Nov 29	awarded	Nice Answer
Nov 4	comment	Mass Rename Files with bash In fact, I'd be much better with find -> generate shell code. The reason for this is that find is less likely to mangle filenames than ls. In the real world I'd just use `mmv` for this, or a while read command substitution loop pulling nul-terminated filenames from `find`. Or, if the files are nicely globbable, a simple for loop as glenn used in his answer.
Nov 4	comment	How to use Grep in Unix command line? It depends on how you define a word boundry, of course.
Nov 4	comment	Mass Rename Files with bash `ls` piped to `sed` piped to `sh`? My brain is melting.
Oct 14	comment	Is there any GUI tool to configure /etc/fstab? The old kfstab was a good tool for this, but it's sadly bitrotten by now. There're fwfstab and gfstab as well, but they don't seem maintained. In the future I expect the excellent palimpsest will evolve the ability to actually edit fstab, then all will be well.
Oct 14	comment	What is naming convention for subtitle files? What if there's more than one file for the same language? E.g., multiple translations.
Sep 29	awarded	Yearling
Sep 6	comment	Why is 'grep -i' so slow? How to do it faster for ASCII? Case insensitivity is hard, especially if you're doing it on unicode input.
Aug 16	revised	Can I display a text file in multiple vertical panes? more closely match requirement and fix leading whitespace
Aug 16	answered	Can I display a text file in multiple vertical panes?
Jan 26	comment	List/remove files, with filenames containing string that's “more than a month ago”? As it turns out you can use `-newerXY` where `Y` is `t` to specify a timestamp directly (for GNU `find` it's GNU `date -d` format) to avoid the need to create an intermediate file. This will be a little faster, as Rich mentions.
Jan 25	comment	How to search for a pattern between lines 1500 to 2500? I worry about the possibility of false positives in the grep match if I do that. Probably it should be an additional switch. What "line number" means when there are multiple files is also a question.
Jan 25	comment	How to search for a pattern between lines 1500 to 2500? You're all quite right, but just for fun I added an answer using `torso`. I sidestepped the line number question by pretending that it doesn't exist.