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Sort a find command to respect a custom order in Unix

I have a script that outputs file paths (via find), which I want to sort based on very specific custom logic: 1st sort key: I want the 2nd and, if present, the 3rd –separated field to be sorted using custom ordering based on a list of keys I supply – but excluding a numerical suffix. With the samp…

optimize xargs argument enumeration

Can this usage of xargs argument enumaration be optimized better? The aim is to inject single argument in the middle of the actual command. I do: or I get: which is what I need but I wondered if loop and temporary variable could be avoided? Answer Try without xargs. For most situations xargs is overkill. Depe…

Linux expect command without interact directive not working

I want to login from 192.168.119.128 to 192.168.119.129 automatic and run some commands, so I write an expect script. a.sh The output is: I login successfuly, but it seems touch /tmp/a.txt command is not run. When I uncomment the last line #interact of a.sh, it works, and the file a.txt is created. Here is th…

Linux grep command to find the value of key from json

I have a JSON output that contains a list of objects stored in a variable.(I may not be phrasing that right) Output of a curl command: will post in comment as I am unable to post here I want to grep the value at this position “ad6743fae9c54748b8644564c691ba58” shown in the output, which changes ev…

Using sed with regex to replace text on OSX and Linux

I am trying to replace some strings inside a file with sed using Regular Expressions. To complicate the matter, this is being done inside a Makefile script that needs to work on both osx and linux. Specifically, within file.tex I want to replace with (xxx and yyy are just example text.) Note, xxx could contai…

OpenVPN multiple IP addresses [closed]

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Python wheels: cp27mu not supported

I’m trying to install pytorch (http://pytorch.org/) on Linux, and according to my machine configuration, the command I should run is: pip install https://s3.amazonaws.com/pytorch/whl/torch-0.1.6.post17-cp27-cp27mu-linux_x86_64.whl On one machine (Linux distribution Slackware 14.1) the installation fails…

Delete all files except a few using bash command

I have a directory containing lot of files in different formats. I would like to know how I can delete all files with specific format (Lets say *.dat) except a few files in a same format (e.g. A.dat and B.dat). Please advise! Answer I’d write a little script (as a command-line one-liner it is slightly t…