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Perl RegEx one-liner that outputs all matches from one line of STDIN

Here is a silly example that effectively illustrates what I need: echo '"this text", " ", "is in speech marks"' | perl -lne 'print "$1" if /"(.*?)"/' ...
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Deleting a hidden file with linux command

I tried using rm -rf .* command to remove a hidden file and I am met with this error. rm: refusing to remove '.' or '..' directory: skipping '.' rm: refusing to remove '.' or '..' directory: skipping '...
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Extract content between first one match and first different match across one or multiple lines

Let's say I want to get the text between the first match of "start_" and the first of "_end", no matter it it's across same or multiple lines. Don't include the matches. Example ...
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Help with Find command: Find files or folders that start with a space (ore more than one space) on linux

How do I do a search for any of the following: Find folders that start with a space on linux and then remove any starting spaces so the folder can start with a letter or a number? Find FILES that ...
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How to search an argument/flag/option in man with a line break?

In man argument/flag/option chapters generally include a line break, as with: -s silent How could I find only the -s which includes a line break after it, just as in the above example? The ...
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FOLD not working on very long lines

I have a fold command as below to split a file with very long line into multiple lines. It works if the file is small. But if the length of the file is too long, it stops adding new line character ...
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Showing line numbers by default in ed

In the ex editor, one can show line numbers by default by adding this line to a .exrc file: set number Is there a way to have ed start with line numbers showing by default, when lines are invoked?
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In a file to find and replace/change multiple strings in a line with shell script

I am new to shell scripting What I have is a log file, each line begins like the below entry, [2021.04.27.17:03:43.813]: ERROR - [2021.04.27.17:04:36.790]: SUCCESS - The desired output to a new file ...
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PureOS Command Line Window

I'm new to PureOS and I've been looking for a way to open a command line window without any luck. How do I open a console/command line window in PureOS?
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Gnuplot connect points when no value

I have below example, 1|5 2|8 3|1 6|8 7|5 8|10 With below code the chart connects between 3 and 6 x data is there a way to plot zero values between 3 and 6 x data, gnuplot << EOT set ...
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merge x and x + n lines

I am writing a script which returns 15 lines of titles and 15 lines of URLs. title 1 title 2 title 3 *snip* title 14 title 15 http://example.com/query?1 http://example.com/query?2 http://example.com/...
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Is a text file bigger on Windows than on Linux because of carriage return?

Let's say I have the same ASCII text file on Linux and Windows: one two three The two files will have \n and \r\n respectively as EOL character on the two OSes. Does this mean that the file on Linux ...
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How do I print line numbers but reset line counter at empty line?

I have a file.txt containing: this is the first second line not last line fourth but first second in list seventh in file seventh with nl Normally I would just cat and pipe | it into nl like so: $&...
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using $ arguments on the command line and providing values for them at the end

rather than write scripts for every single process I need to do, I like to just save commands in a text file and copy and paste them on the command line. Of course, some of the specifics of the ...
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Read file line by line with awk to replace characters in certain line numbers

I have got this script here. It is supposed to run the loop by reading the file LineNumbers.file line by line (each contains a line number) and then accordingly replacing 0/0 with ./. in the ...
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