Month: January 2010
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VIM Control Characters – search and replace
Control characters require an escape sequence prior to using in a search and replace operation in VIM. In Linux, the escape character is Ctl-v. Windows requires a Ctl-q. Remove all ^M characters from a file on Linux: %s/^V^M//g Remove all ESCAPES (\27, ^[) from a file on Windows: %s/^q^[//g
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Bash Tip! Renaming files using Bash string operations
To rename all html files in a particular directory to shtml files, use the following loop: for file in *.html do mv ${file} ${file%%.html}.shtml done This uses the ${variable%%match} format which strips the longest match from the end of the variable.