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Calling linux utilities with options from within a Bash script.

This is my first Bash script so forgive me if this question is trivial. I need to count the number of files within a specified directory $HOME/.junk. I thought this would be simple and assumed the following would work: numfiles= find $HOME/.junk -type f | wc -l echo "There are $numfiles files in the .junk directory." Typing find $HOME...

C# RegEx - find html tags (div and anchor)

Hi I have to retrieve several div section (of specific class name "row ") with it's content, and additionally find all anchor tags (link urls) (with class "underline red bold"). Shortly speaing : get section of: <div class = "row "> ... (divs, tags ...) <a class="underline red bold" href="/searchClickThru?pid=prod56534895&amp;q=&amp;r...

Linux find command gotcha?

Hi I am trying to find all js & css files in one find command. I tried all of the below but in vain: find WebContent -name "*.[jc]ss?" find WebContent -name "*.[jc]ss{0,1}" find WebContent -name "*.[jc][s]{1,2}$" find WebContent -name "*.[jc]s{1,2}" find WebContent -name "*.[jc]s[s]?" Now what?? ...

Which POSIX flavor of regex does Perl use?

Specifically, I'm using the Linux command: $ find . -regextype posix-extended -regex '<some regex>' ... I just want to make sure the POSIX type I'm using is the type Perl uses, since that is by far the one I am most familiar with. ...

How to strip leading "./" in unix "find"?

find . -type f -print prints out ./file1 ./file2 ./file3 Any way to make it print file1 file2 file3 ? ...

Help with hash tables and quadratic probing in Java

I really need help with inserting into a hash table. I'm just not totally getting it right now. Could someone explain quadratic and linear probing in layman's terms? public void insert(String key) { int homeLocation = 0; int location = 0; int count = 0; if (find(key).getLocation() == -1) // make sure key is not alrea...

beautifulsoup: find the n-th element's sibling

I have a complex html DOM tree of the following nature: <table> ... <tr> <td> ... </td> <td> <table> <tr> <td> <!-- inner most table --> <table> ... ...

How to find rows between other rows w/ID then add class

Hi guys. i'm stuck with my table. need create toggle rows function. but i no idea how to find sub rows in table. Some one can help me? I have table with many rows > 500 All Rows have class="row-1,row-2.....row-600 etc" And all main rows also have class="parent" between each "parent" rows i have 6 rows So i need for toggle/collapse ...

How to use find command to find all files with extensions from list?

Hello, I need to find all image files from directory (gif, png, jpg, jpeg). find /path/to/ -name "*.jpg" > log How to modify this string to find not only .jpg files? Thank you. PS: Unix ...

bash script problem, find , mv tilde files created by gedit

Hi, im using linux with gedit which has the wonderful habit of creating a temp file with a tilde at the end for every file I edit. im trying to move all of these files at once to a different folder using the following: find . -iname “*.php~” -exec mv {} /mydir \; However, its now giving me syntax errors, as if it were searching thro...

strange behavior in vim with negative look-behind

So, I am doing this search in vim: /\(\(unum\)\|\(player\)=\)\@<!\"1\" and as expected it does not match lines that have: player="1" but matches lines that have: unum="1" what am i doing wrong? isn't the atom to be negated all of this: \(\(unum\)\|\(player\)=\) naturally just doing: /\(\(unum\)\|\(player\)=\) matches unum= or...

Change find method in database search so that it isn't case sensitive in Rails app

Hello, I am learning Rails and have created a work-in-progress app that does one-word searches on a database of shortcut keys for various programs (http://keyboardcuts.heroku.com/shortcuts/home). The search method in the Shortcut model is the following: def self.search(search) search_condition = "%" + search + "%" find(:all, :cond...

Finding the left-most and right-most points of a list. std::find_if the right way to go?

Hi, I have a list of Point objects, (each one with x,y properties) and would like to find the left-most and right-most points. I've been trying to do it with find_if, but i'm not sure its the way to go, because i can't seem to pass a comparator instance. Is find_if the way to go? Seems not. So, is there an algorithm in <algorithm> to ac...

How to std::find using a Compare object?

I am confused about the interface of std::find. Why doesn't it take a Compare object that tells it how to compare two objects? If I could pass a Compare object I could make the following code work, where I would like to compare by value, instead of just comparing the pointer values directly: typedef std::vector<std::string*> Vec; Vec...

Problem using the find function in MATLAB

I have two arrays of data that I'm trying to amalgamate. One contains actual latencies from an experiment in the first column (e.g. 0.345, 0.455... never more than 3 decimal places), along with other data from that experiment. The other contains what is effectively a 'look up' list of latencies ranging from 0.001 to 0.500 in 0.001 increm...

How to get span tag inside a div in jQuery and assign a text?

I use the following , <div id='message' style="display: none;"> <span></span> <a href="#" class="close-notify">X</a> </div> Now i want to find the span inside the div and assign a text to it... function Errormessage(txt) { $("#message").fadeIn("slow"); // find the span inside the div and assign a text $("#message a.clo...

Find text position

Hi. Could you please help me !!!! For example, I load some page into opera/Firefox etc., there is a text on the page (which is a link). What I need is to find position of the text on the screen and send mouse click to that position. Is it possible to do? If you can, give an example please!!!! ...

Rails - Select a specific record from model (Checkbox) and displaying it

Hello I'm using ryan Bates railscast on HABTM checkboxes.... I looking for the way to call a specific record from the set, allow me to explain. In my view I have <% for interest in Interest.find(:all) %> <div> <%= check_box_tag "user[interest_ids][]", interest.id, @user.interests.include?(interest) %> <%= interest.name %> </di...

More efficient way to find & tar millions of files

I've got a job running on my server at the command line prompt for a two days now: find data/ -name filepattern-*2009* -exec tar uf 2009.tar {} ; It is taking forever, and then some. Yes, there are millions of files in the target directory. (Each file is a measly 8 bytes in a well hashed directory structure.) But just running... ...

find through command prompt

How to find all the *.txt files in any directory(i.e. c:\,d:\ etc.) through command prompt? ...