I use cat to read a file and pass it to another app, the command is this:
camibar% cat file.git | fossil import --git file.fossil
It takes a lot of time, file.git is 12GB, and i want to know if
there's some 'magic' trick can I use to show me how many bytes or
the % of the file.git cat
El día Saturday, March 09, 2013 a las 10:54:00AM +0100, Eduardo Morras escribió:
Hello,
I use cat to read a file and pass it to another app, the command is this:
camibar% cat file.git | fossil import --git file.fossil
It takes a lot of time, file.git is 12GB, and i want to know
On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Eduardo Morras emorr...@yahoo.es wrote:
Hello,
I use cat to read a file and pass it to another app, the command is this:
camibar% cat file.git | fossil import --git file.fossil
It takes a lot of time, file.git is 12GB, and i want to know if there's some
On Sat, 9 Mar 2013 10:54:00 +0100, Eduardo Morras wrote:
Hello,
I use cat to read a file and pass it to another app, the command is this:
camibar% cat file.git | fossil import --git file.fossil
It takes a lot of time, file.git is 12GB, and i want to know if
there's some 'magic' trick
You might want to try the sysutils/pv port, which is a small
program that works like cat, but provides a progress bar.
On Sat, Mar 09, 2013 at 10:54:00AM +0100, Eduardo Morras wrote:
Hello,
I use cat to read a file and pass it to another app, the command is this:
camibar% cat file.git
I tried sorting a file with a column of floating
point numbers (below) with sort(1) -n. However,
the numbers seem to have been sorted by the first
digit only.
TZAV cat numbers
3.895686170464136E-016
6.790214437463702E-003
4.163481430190832E-016
2.224131318975909E-002
4.024567914829249E-016
On Monday 03 October 2011 14:05:42 Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
I tried sorting a file with a column of floating
point numbers (below) with sort(1) -n. However,
the numbers seem to have been sorted by the first
digit only.
sort -g
Due to the GNU project's obsession with info
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 12:22:48PM -0700, Johan Dowdy wrote:
For loops are your friend.
I'd do something like:
for i in `cat iplist`
do dig +short -x $I
done
Even better:
while read i
do dig +short -x $i
done iplist
See the Useless Use of Cat Award for more details.
Erik
On Monday 12 May 2008 20:59, Paul Schmehl wrote:
I created a small list of IPs that I wanted to do digs on (because I'm lazy
and don't want to do them one at a time.)
[snip]
WTF? Why do these utilities, which usually read all the lines in a file
now only work once when run through dig? Is
On Tuesday 13 May 2008 18:23, Jonathan McKeown wrote:
The comedy solution:
lam -s '-x ' trydata | xargs dig +short
and of course I meant iplist, not trydata: this was a cut'n'paste, and trydata
is my scratch test data filename (often providing input to a script called
try. Why isn't it
to each line, but
by then I might as well just do them individually.
What am I missing?
Never mind.
This worked.
(read line; dig +short -x `echo $line`; while read line; do dig
+short -x `echo $line`; done) iplist
I tend to use xargs -n1 with dig e.g
cat iplist | xargs -n1 dig
[respecting Time's arrow]
On Tuesday 13 May 2008 20:55, Johan Dowdy wrote:
On 5/12/08 1:55 PM, RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
cat iplist | xargs -n1 dig +short -x
I think this one wins for brevity.
It can be made shorter:
iplist xargs -n1 dig +short -x
but it fires off multiple dig
I created a small list of IPs that I wanted to do digs on (because I'm lazy and
don't want to do them one at a time.)
I then wrote the following on the commandline:
% dig +short -x `cat iplist`
The results was an answer for the first line only.
So, I thought read line would do the trick. I
--On Monday, May 12, 2008 13:59:47 -0500 Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Sure, I can edit the file and prepend +short -x to each line, but by then I
might as well just do them individually.
What am I missing?
Never mind.
This worked.
(read line; dig +short -x `echo $line`; while read
On May 12, 2008, at 11:59 AM, Paul Schmehl wrote:
WTF? Why do these utilities, which usually read all the lines in a
file now only work once when run through dig? Is there a way to
feed dig a list of IPs and have it return each and every one of them?
The dig which comes with BIND 9
On Monday 12 May 2008, Paul Schmehl wrote:
I created a small list of IPs that I wanted to do digs on (because I'm lazy
and don't want to do them one at a time.)
I then wrote the following on the commandline:
% dig +short -x `cat iplist`
The results was an answer for the first line only
For loops are your friend.
I'd do something like:
for i in `cat iplist`
do dig +short -x $I
done
-J
On 5/12/08 11:59 AM, Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
dig +short -x `cat iplist`
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Senior Systems Administrator
nCircle Network Security
415.318.2880
Any
missing?
Never mind.
This worked.
(read line; dig +short -x `echo $line`; while read line; do dig
+short -x `echo $line`; done) iplist
I tend to use xargs -n1 with dig e.g
cat iplist | xargs -n1 dig +short -x
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Hello.
I suddenly cannot run cat command as /bin/cat file appears to be without
execute permissions (all other files in /bin directory are with them) and I
get /bin/cat: Permission denied error.
I had a misfortune to chmod 555 /bin/cat, then my machine panicked (when
trying to run cat
From: Viktoras Veitas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello.
I suddenly cannot run cat command as /bin/cat file appears to be without
execute permissions (all other files in /bin directory are with them) and I
get /bin/cat: Permission denied error.
I had a misfortune to chmod 555 /bin/cat, then my
jdow wrote:
From: Viktoras Veitas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello.
I suddenly cannot run cat command as /bin/cat file appears to be
without
execute permissions (all other files in /bin directory are with them)
and I
get /bin/cat: Permission denied error.
I had a misfortune to chmod 555 /bin/cat
of boxes under my desk here at
home and between the Ultra-10, FreeBSD-5.4 and 6.0 and SuSE I get
confused and that's what happened when I tried to type the following
on my FreeBSD box.
cat /proc/cpuinfo
[]
Is there some *BSD port that will give me CPU information like the
above
On 27/03/06 Dhénin Jean-Jacques said:
pkg_add cpuid
and
:; cpuid
eax ineax ebx ecx edx
0002 756e6547 6c65746e 49656e69
0001 0f27 0001080a 0400 bfebfbff
0002 665b5101 003b7040
8000 8004
:; dmidecode
...
Version: Intel(R) Celeron(R)
Voltage: 1.5 V
External Clock: 130 MHz
Max Speed: 3200 MHz
Current Speed: 2865 MHz
Status: Populated, Enabled
Upgrade: ZIF Socket
L1 Cache Handle: 0x0009
L2 Cache Handle:
Hello Family,
Yes, yes, I know... I have a bunch of boxes under my desk here at
home and between the Ultra-10, FreeBSD-5.4 and 6.0 and SuSE I get
confused and that's what happened when I tried to type the following
on my FreeBSD box.
cat /proc/cpuinfo
What I did get off my other box, where
: cat /proc/cpuinfo ?
Hello Family,
Yes, yes, I know... I have a bunch of boxes under my desk here at
home and between the Ultra-10, FreeBSD-5.4 and 6.0 and SuSE I get
confused and that's what happened when I tried to type the following
on my FreeBSD box.
cat /proc/cpuinfo
What I did get off my
... I have a bunch of boxes under my desk here at
home and between the Ultra-10, FreeBSD-5.4 and 6.0 and SuSE I get
confused and that's what happened when I tried to type the following
on my FreeBSD box.
cat /proc/cpuinfo
What I did get off my other box, where this command works
the following
on my FreeBSD box.
cat /proc/cpuinfo
[]
Is there some *BSD port that will give me CPU information like the
above from the command line?
You want the linux /proc behaviour.
1) make sure you have linux binary compatibility installed
$ pkg_info | grep linux_base
linux_base-8
shell# cat /dev/urandom
can that executed as root cause any harm to the system? What
if a random
sequence of `rm *` was generated... would it be executed?
the question is: WHAT FOR should someone logged in as root
execute cat /dev/urandom without redirecting the output?
anyway, from
Hi all,
Quick question.
shell# cat /dev/urandom
can that executed as root cause any harm to the system? What if a random
sequence of `rm *` was generated... would it be executed?
I tried that to fix my terminal and forgot it might cause damage as root,
even if its just being cat'd
On 7/26/05, Matt Juszczak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
Quick question.
shell# cat /dev/urandom
can that executed as root cause any harm to the system? What if a random
sequence of `rm *` was generated... would it be executed?
I tried that to fix my terminal and forgot it might
On Tuesday 26 July 2005 17:35, Michael Beattie wrote:
On 7/26/05, Matt Juszczak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
Quick question.
shell# cat /dev/urandom
can that executed as root cause any harm to the system? What if a random
sequence of `rm *` was generated... would
`cat /dev/urandom` will do just that... it's not also going to run
code from within that output.
On 7/26/05, Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tuesday 26 July 2005 17:35, Michael Beattie wrote:
On 7/26/05, Matt Juszczak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
Quick question.
shell# cat
On Tuesday 26 July 2005 18:18, Michael Beattie wrote:
`cat /dev/urandom` will do just that... it's not also going to run
code from within that output.
On 7/26/05, Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tuesday 26 July 2005 17:35, Michael Beattie wrote:
On 7/26/05, Matt Juszczak [EMAIL PROTECTED
On 7/26/05, Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tuesday 26 July 2005 18:18, Michael Beattie wrote:
`cat /dev/urandom` will do just that... it's not also going to run
code from within that output.
On 7/26/05, Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tuesday 26 July 2005 17:35, Michael Beattie
Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 6:32 PM Matt Juszczak [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all,
Quick question.
shell# cat /dev/urandom
can that executed as root cause any harm to the system? What if a random
sequence of `rm *` was generated... would it be executed?
Not from a virtual terminal
On Tuesday 26 July 2005 18:47, Michael Beattie wrote:
On 7/26/05, Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tuesday 26 July 2005 18:18, Michael Beattie wrote:
`cat /dev/urandom` will do just that... it's not also going to run
code from within that output.
On 7/26/05, Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED
Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tuesday 26 July 2005 17:35, Michael Beattie wrote:
On 7/26/05, Matt Juszczak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
Quick question.
shell# cat /dev/urandom
can that executed as root cause any harm to the system? What if a random
sequence
I don't use backticks, so this'll have the equivalent $().
The command: cat /dev/urandom
is passed to the shell and the shell executes cat and sends
the output to the screen without possibility of executing anything
(except the magic stuff recognized by your terminal emulator -- I hope
it can't
On Tuesday 26 July 2005 20:03, you wrote:
I don't use backticks, so this'll have the equivalent $().
The command: cat /dev/urandom
is passed to the shell and the shell executes cat and sends
the output to the screen without possibility of executing anything
(except the magic stuff recognized
Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I think the backticks (and shell variables) actually send the output to a
pipe, not the screen.
I don't know why you said either part of that. I didn't imply the
latter and AFAIK the former is untrue (unless you ask the shell to
send their output to a pipe);
like
the guy was speaking all in terms of screens, and I knew that my experience
had that output usually going somewhere other than the screen ... mostly to a
pipe.
Just typed too soon, and didn't proof, I guess.
I hope no harm has been done.
For anyone listening don't type `cat /dev/urandom
I asked this question over a week ago, but got no answer. I'll give it
one more shot. If someone knowns of a better forum for this, please let
me know.
/usr/local/share/sgml/catalog - /usr/local/share/sgml/catalog.ports).
There's something about xhtml11.cat that makes some of the installed
Karlsson Mikael HKI/SOSV wrote:
And while we're on the subject of different file types why
doesn't ls support coloring of different file types like in Linux. As it would make
finding certain files easier by coloring them differently depending on their ending.
Try http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/
However, the purpose of cat is to write the contents of a file to STDOUT.
And yes, in UNIX pretty much everything is considered a file. But that does
not change the fact that people do not experience a directory as a file, and
in their use of language also clearly differentiate between
- Original Message -
From: Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 4:21 PM
Subject: Re: Re:Re: Cat a directory
But nonetheless very illustrative of how the OS takes into consideration an
unexpected
[it seems I forgot a paragraph]
- Original Message -
From: Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 4:21 PM
Subject: Re: Re:Re: Cat a directory
I would like to see a switch added to cat, like -d, which
Now, either contribute something or be done with it.
I contributed a few clear, well-argumented reasons in favor of my position
^^^ wrong reasons
that cat should change its default behavior. You, otoh, have only
demonstrated that you
- Original Message -
From: Matthew Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Karlsson Mikael HKI/SOSV [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 6:26 PM
Subject: Re: Re:Re: Cat a directory
cat /bin on Solaris 9 does exactly the same thing as on FreeBSD; shows
the contents
reign or maybe always been that way.
Other *NIX systems seem to have done this to their cat program so why
can't FreeBSD?
See above.
FreeBSD has a better view of the world than some of the kiddie OSes.
Yes, you're absolutly right that FreeBSD has a better view of the world then
other OSes
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Karlsson Mikael HKI/SOSV wrote:
[...]
which are all supported in for example GNU/Linux ls, except 10 and 11,
but then they have an extra option to put different coloring on files
with a special ending. So that archives, moviefiles, soundfiles etc.
have a special color
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Karlsson Mikael HKI/SOSV wrote:
[...]
which are all supported in for example GNU/Linux ls, except 10 and 11,
but then they have an extra option to put different coloring on files
with a special ending. So that archives, moviefiles, soundfiles etc.
have a special
Read my first post before reading this thing so you'll be on the right track
Warren Block wrote (19.9.2003 17:41):
Says who? cat works fine on binary files. The problem you are having
is that people are using cat to *display* files. Fixing that problem
could break cat for its more
I hesitate to step into the fray; it appears that
the phrase `more heat than light' now applies. But
...
Says who? cat works fine on binary files. The
problem you are having is that people are using
cat to *display* files. Fixing that problem
could break cat for its more standard use
On 22 Sep 2003 09:06:00 +0300
Karlsson Mikael HKI/SOSV [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
Ruben de Groot wrote (19.9.2003 13:34):
So why don't you for example alias cat to cat -v in your system
profile and login scripts? This will display non-printing characters
so they are visible and don't
Thus spake Chris Pressey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [22/09/03 11:54]:
Also, I believe 'GNU ls', in the ports, supports coloured directory
listings.
As does FreeBSD's ls. From 'man 1 ls':
-G Enable colorized output. This option is equivalent to
defining CLICOLOR in the
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 08:54:16AM -0700, Chris Pressey wrote:
Also, I believe 'GNU ls', in the ports, supports coloured directory
listings.
Have you tried typing 'ls -G' using the system ls(1) recently?
Cheers,
Matthew
--
Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil.
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 09:06:00AM +0300, Karlsson Mikael HKI/SOSV wrote:
Try to run for example cat /bin in Linux, HP-UX, Solaris and other
*NIXes and I'm 90% certain that they will not show the directory but
an error message saying something.
cat /bin on Solaris 9 does exactly the same
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 12:01:15 -0400
Damian Gerow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thus spake Chris Pressey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [22/09/03 11:54]:
Also, I believe 'GNU ls', in the ports, supports coloured directory
listings.
As does FreeBSD's ls. From 'man 1 ls':
-GEnable
Read my first post before reading this thing so you'll be on the right track
Other *NIX systems seem to have done this to their cat program so why
can't FreeBSD?
See above.
FreeBSD has a better view of the world than some of the kiddie OSes.
Try to run for example cat /bin
Karlsson Mikael HKI/SOSV [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So it's better for a newbie to get understandable jibrish from cat
when run on directories then an error message stating that they are
trying to run cat on a directory like ls says when they try to run ls
on a file. But as I said earlier who
On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 08:27:00AM +0300, Karlsson Mikael HKI/SOSV typed:
OK! I admit that it isn't THE BIGGEST problem for me BUT it is A problem. What
I ment in my last mail was that it is the biggest problem concerning cat. Since
someone always seems to cat a binary file without having
On Thu, 19 Sep 2003, Karlsson Mikael HKI/SOSV wrote:
I personally think that some of these tests should be added to the
real distributable version of cat that comes with FreeBSD cause I
can't be the only one that this bugs. I mean what could a little more
code hurt to the program since cat
I've noticed along time that it's possible to cat a directory. I just
don't see the point of it being possible to do so since it only returns
jibrish.
I know that in Linux for example cat returns an error message like this:
cat: mail/: Is a directory. I also noticed that in both FreeBSD and
Linux
In the last episode (Sep 18), Karlsson Mikael HKI/SOSV said:
What I just wanted to ask was if it's absolutely necessary for cat to
be able to work on directories. Or if it would be possible to simply
add a check to cat that tests if the file being opened is a
directory and then exits
OK! I admit that it isn't THE BIGGEST problem for me BUT it is A problem. What
I ment in my last mail was that it is the biggest problem concerning cat. Since
someone always seems to cat a binary file without having the knowledge of what
it causes.
I personally think that some of these tests
On Fri, Sep 19, 2003, Karlsson Mikael HKI/SOSV wrote:
OK! I admit that it isn't THE BIGGEST problem for me BUT it is A problem. What
I ment in my last mail was that it is the biggest problem concerning cat. Since
someone always seems to cat a binary file without having the knowledge of what
After i run ./configure ...successfully i suppose there were no error messagesi
try to run make but the process stops with the following:
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I/usr/local/include/glib12 -D_THREAD_SAFE
-DLOCALEDIR=\/usr/local/share/locale\ -g -O2 -c mgutils.c -fPIC -DPIC -o
On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Tijl Coosemans wrote:
I want to remove CRs from text files so what I did is this:
cat filename | tr -d '\r' filename
However, I often end up with an empty file. Just out of
interest, somebody who knows why that is?
This is because prior to any other action the shell
- Original Message -
From: Shantanu Mahajan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 11:05:27 +0530
To: Tijl Coosemans [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: cat
+++ Tijl Coosemans [freebsd] [26-02-03 17:56 +0100]:
| I want to remove CRs from text files so what I did is this:
|
| cat
- Original Message -
From: Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 17:14:56 +
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: cat
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 05:56:13PM +0100, Tijl Coosemans wrote:
I want
Sip
(Note too the influence of the Society for the Suppression
The ultimate answer is that the shell interpets the first,
truncating the output file to 0.
Quickest way to make a file null bytes long (in sh type shells, not
in (t(csh) type):
$ filename
In bash (also in ksh I think) you can tell the shell not to clobber an existing file,
I think the command
I want to remove CRs from text files so what I did is this:
cat filename | tr -d '\r' filename
However, I often end up with an empty file. Just out of
interest, somebody who knows why that is?
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On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 05:56:13PM +0100, Tijl Coosemans wrote:
I want to remove CRs from text files so what I did is this:
cat filename | tr -d '\r' filename
However, I often end up with an empty file. Just out of
interest, somebody who knows why that is?
Because the shell can open
On Wednesday 26 February 2003 18:56, someone, possibly Tijl Coosemans,
typed:
I want to remove CRs from text files so what I did is this:
cat filename | tr -d '\r' filename
However, I often end up with an empty file. Just out of
interest, somebody who knows why that is?
Not a clue
I want to remove CRs from text files so what I did is this:
cat filename | tr -d '\r' filename
It's easier with 'tr' but you can also use vi.
# vi text.txt
:1,$s/^M//g
where ^M means that you need to hit Ctrl-V.
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On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 05:56:13PM +0100, Tijl Coosemans wrote:
I want to remove CRs from text files so what I did is this:
cat filename | tr -d '\r' filename
However, I often end up with an empty file. Just out of
interest, somebody who knows why that is?
Hmmm... That's a nasty race
On 2003-02-26 17:56, Tijl Coosemans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I want to remove CRs from text files so what I did is this:
cat filename | tr -d '\r' filename
However, I often end up with an empty file. Just out of
interest, somebody who knows why that is?
The shell opens filename for input
+++ Tijl Coosemans [freebsd] [26-02-03 17:56 +0100]:
| I want to remove CRs from text files so what I did is this:
|
| cat filename | tr -d '\r' filename
|
| However, I often end up with an empty file. Just out of
| interest, somebody who knows why
Hi.
If I will have a command running lets say every 5th hour, how do I typ??
the command is:
cat resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf
Thanks.
// Per
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# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-02-14 18:40:50 +0100:
Hi.
If I will have a command running lets say every 5th hour, how do I typ??
the command is:
cat resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf
see crontab(1) and crontab(5)
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Charlie ROOT wrote:
Hi.
If I will have a command running lets say every 5th hour, how do I typ??
the command is:
cat resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf
The information you are looking for is in the crontab manpage (as someone
else pointed out)
Although I'd like to point out an alternative. Any
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