using tabs within block for ansible blockinfile module I want to output some text with tab as separator using ansible here’s task snippet – name: Create output file blockinfile: block: | Some texttmore text path: ‘{{ playbook_dir }}/output.txt’ create: true CURRENT OUTPUT # BEGIN ANSIBLE MANAGED BLOCK Some texttmore text # END ANSIBLE MANAGED BLOCK …
How to replace (***) with (***) with sed so I wanted to write a script to replace special characters with their escaped equivalent so I can pass it to mkdir command. As a friend used a similar line I can use this to replace parantheses with underline like below: echo ‘Hello (World)’ | sed ‘s/(|)/_/g’ …
Why is a filename surrounded by double quotes with single quotes around a character when displayed in terminal? Why would a file show up surrounded by double quotes with a character surrounded by single quotes within it? "insight_automation.log’.’2024-03-13" I am using Ubuntu Server 22.04.3 LTS. A service desk management program (Atlassian Jira Data Center 9.12.4 …
Using grep to search for line that begins with a variable whose value is a dollar sign I found a lot of very similar problems, but not exactly this. I have a text file with the following contents (no repeats, fixed 4 characters per line): A1234 G1234 $1234 M1234 I’m trying to use grep to …
Escape special characters from variables I have #!/usr/bin/bash search="ldo_vrf18 {" replace="$search"’ compatible = "regulator-fixed"; regulator-name = "vrf18"; regulator-min-microvolt = <1800000>; regulator-max-microvolt = <1800000>; regulator-enable-ramp-delay = <120>;’ sed -i "s/$search/$replace/g" output.file The result is sed: -e expression #1, char 62: unterminated `s’ command I suspect some values arent being escape in replace. Is there a way …
Using the SED command with special characters Is there a way to use the sed command this to search for a special character at the beginning of line, replace it with another special character, and append a special character to that line only? I did some digging and and have looked thru a few forums, …
Entering special characters the same way on Windows and Linux ctrlshiftu followed by the hex value of a Unicode character enters that character. For example, ctrlshiftu41 enters ‘A’, whose value is 0x41 in hex and 65 in decimal. There’s also the compose key, which lets you enter digraphs (e.g. compose keye^ produces ‘ê’). Unfortunately, neither …
How to see the complete 'special symbol set' that apg (Automated Password Generator) is using I am using apg to generate password suggestions, and am using the -M switch to include special keyboard characters: apg -a 1 -n 1 -m 16 -x 16 -M SNCL where: -a, algorithm – 0 default pronounceable, 1 random unpronounceable …
Encryption Password typing issues I just upgraded from Ubuntu 20.04 to Ubuntu 22.04. Upon rebooting, after upgrade finished, I was asked to enter disk encryption password (not loggin password. I have full disk encyption). My defalt keyboard on Ubuntu 20.04 was EN but upon upgrading it was set to SR (Serbian Latinic). The huge issue …
Can't copy, move, rename files that have special character (single quote) in their file names I have some files that have the special character ‘ in their file names. I seem to not able to copy, move, rename those files. For example, when I try to rename grandpa’s_pen.mp4 to grandpas_pen.mp4, the action takes too much …
Special character password variable from bash to expect block is not working I have been struggling with this issue for a few days now. I have scoured the internet for a solution and tried many different methods but none seems to be fruitful so far. I am passing a password variable which contains special characters …
Use `find` for filename with [] Background: I am trying to find music files that are mentioned in an xml file to organize my music playlists. I’m writing a script to pull out the filenames from the xml tag to automatically find the files. My music lives in $musicroot, so I’m issuing find there. But …
Understanding bind mapping to switch between emacs and vi modes tl;dr If I execute the following in bash, Ctrl+z seems to have no effect bind -m vi-command ‘"C-z": emacs-editing-mode’ bind -m vi-insert ‘"C-z": emacs-editing-mode’ bind -m emacs-standard ‘"C-z": vi-editing-mode’ whereas something dumb like this just works bind -m vi-insert ‘"h": "ciaooooo"’ The origin of this …
How do I echo a file path after interpreting characters like dots '.' and tildes '~'? I want to write a bash script that accepts, as an input argument, a file specification that includes one or more uses of the special characters ., .., and ~. I want my script’s output to echo Bash’s full …
Bash Parameter Expansion – Get Variables with a Prefix while Escaping Hyphen EDIT: I realized I was mistaken about a central assumption in this post: The ${!prefix@} syntax isn’t able to get function names, but only variables. Therefore, there is no way to get ${!prefix@} to return function names, even if they used underscores. Thus, …
"cat ls" messes up my terminal's characters when I go to my /bin directory and do cat ls it messes up my whole terminal’s characters, even my input gets messed up and I have no option but to restart the terminal. I was just watching a toturial and the guy was doing this, his terminal …
How to rename files recursively with a specific extension to remove unwanted characters in audio files I want to rename files with a .m4a extension recursively in child directories to remove unwanted characters in audio files such as [ ‘ ]. That’s because that this below happened to this file 04 Tears Don’t Fall.m4a without …
What are curly quotes and can I use them in my code? Somehow curly quotes got into my code and I’m getting unexpected behavior #!/bin/sh if [ foo = ‘foo’ ]; then echo yes else echo no fi I would expect this to echo yes but instead it echoes no. Asked By: jesse_b || Source …
"Ctrl + ." displays "e" character and captures the keyboard shortcut For a few days now I can no longer use Ctrl+. anywhere (which makes working with Vs Code pretty frustrating). Instead of executing the shortcut an e appears. I can then write normally, and when pressing Enter the e disappears. This is similar to …
How to copy a file by using its inode number? This problem is related to Samba and inodes are not necessary. I have a problem handling a certain file that has some special characters in it. If I search it by its inode it will list the file: $ find . -inum 90505400 -exec ls …
