Dec 24, 2007
Changing files to lower case with Bash and tr
I'm sure there are a number of ways to change a directory of files to lowercase including the mmv utility for 'wildcard' renaming and copying. However, this simple one-liner is likely to work on a wider range of systems without installing additional programs since it only requires bash and tr:
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Sep 29, 2007
grep vs 'grep -E'
Well this might seem blindingly obvious to some, but I was stumped for half an hour this morning trying to figure out why 'grep he+' wasn't finding the word 'hello' in a test file when it was obviously there. The answer was that I should have read the manpage very carefully. The all-important paragraph reads as follows:
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