[RndTbl] RTFM brainstorm.

Mike Pfaiffer high.res.mike at gmail.com
Mon Sep 27 13:53:38 CDT 2010


On 2010-09-27, at 12:42 PM, Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson wrote:

> Hi, all.
> 
> The other day I was trying to execute a command on all subdirectories (recursively) and files, even though these files and directories contained non-alphanumeric characters and space. I found my answer on StackOverflow eventually, but there were a lot of different approaches to it, some utilizing commands like "awk", "gawk" (which I'm told is just a GNU version), but in my 13 years on Linux, I've never found the serenity to learn all those crazy text processing commands.
> 
> So perhaps, if someone is well versed in text/file/directory processing, a short lecture on the most powerful commands might be useful. Just an idea. :)

	A quick response and test of a newly configured mail program... When dealing with filenames with "evil characters" you can always enclose the filename in single quotes ("'"). I use this when dealing with video files someone created under M$.

> Kind regards,
> Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson
> helgi at binary.s
> 

				Later
				Mike




> On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Sean Cody <sean at tinfoilhat.ca> wrote:
> We are quickly powering through our current RTFM pool.
> 
> Since the point of the exercise is to educate the group it seems only reasonable to find out what commands/systems the group would like to hear about?
> 
> That being said, is there any command/system you were always curious about but haven't found time to investigate?
> What about a command you are using but you are unsure if you are getting the full potential out of it?
> Any particular command you enjoy using that you think other people could benefit from?
> 
> Let us know and we'll add it to the pool.
> 
> --
> Sean
> P.S. While we would really like members to present RTFM, just giving us an idea of the things you want to learn about will help a lot.
> 
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