From mma1019 at yahoo.com Tue Dec 8 09:06:12 2009 From: mma1019 at yahoo.com (Melita Almberg) Date: Tue Dec 8 09:06:15 2009 Subject: [Charlug] Can anyone help?? Message-ID: <62417.75100.qm@web63408.mail.re1.yahoo.com> Hi all, = First, I'll start by saying I am not at all tech-savvy.=A0=A0I'm a wannabe = ex- Windows user, looking for someone to install whatever the current relea= se version of ubuntu is on my home computer.=A0=A0Does anyone know someone = who can do this for me = -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://charlug.org/pipermail/charlug/attachments/20091208/45545871/att= achment.html From wiggins at danconia.org Wed Dec 9 08:41:04 2009 From: wiggins at danconia.org (Brian J. Miller) Date: Wed Dec 9 08:42:00 2009 Subject: [Charlug] Can anyone help?? In-Reply-To: <62417.75100.qm@web63408.mail.re1.yahoo.com> References: <62417.75100.qm@web63408.mail.re1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <4B1FA8F0.2040002@danconia.org> Melita Almberg wrote: > Hi all, > First, I'll start by saying I am not at all tech-savvy. I'm a wannabe ex- Windows user, looking for someone to install whatever the current release version of ubuntu is on my home computer. Does anyone know someone who can do this for me > Perhaps this is fodder for a meeting? It is already the 9th of December so I suspect this month is probably out. Would it be valuable to you still if it happened after the new year? Or is your burning desire to be on The Best OS Around so great that it just can't wait that long? If you can make it through the holidays without OD'ing on eggnog to squelch the windows pain then I think a meeting could be arranged to help. If you have to have it before then, perhaps someone can suggest a time/place for a meeting soon. My schedule is pretty hectic at the moment with family obligations but I might be able to attend. I wouldn't have necessarily said this in the past, but dual bootedness is so aware in new versions that you might just try it yourself and see how far you get. BACKUP YOUR FILES FIRST! But you should be doing that anyways, at least before you have someone (yourself included) attempt an install. -- Brian J. Miller End Point Corp. http://www.endpoint.com/ brian@endpoint.com From phma at phma.optus.nu Wed Dec 9 11:10:08 2009 From: phma at phma.optus.nu (Pierre Abbat) Date: Wed Dec 9 11:10:19 2009 Subject: [Charlug] Can anyone help?? In-Reply-To: <4B1FA8F0.2040002@danconia.org> References: <62417.75100.qm@web63408.mail.re1.yahoo.com> <4B1FA8F0.2040002@danconia.org> Message-ID: <200912091110.10052.phma@phma.optus.nu> On Wednesday 09 December 2009 08:41:04 Brian J. Miller wrote: > I wouldn't have necessarily said this in the past, but dual bootedness > is so aware in new versions that you might just try it yourself and see > how far you get. BACKUP YOUR FILES FIRST! But you should be doing that > anyways, at least before you have someone (yourself included) attempt an > install. I still suggest adding a disk to set up a dual boot. That's what I did years ago when I set up my first Linux box. Melita, where are you? (Hopefully not near Gozo;)) Pierre -- Don't buy a French car in Holland. It may be a citroen. From jason at rampaginggeek.com Wed Dec 9 12:40:32 2009 From: jason at rampaginggeek.com (Jason Edgecombe) Date: Wed Dec 9 12:40:46 2009 Subject: [Charlug] Can anyone help?? In-Reply-To: <200912091110.10052.phma@phma.optus.nu> References: <62417.75100.qm@web63408.mail.re1.yahoo.com> <4B1FA8F0.2040002@danconia.org> <200912091110.10052.phma@phma.optus.nu> Message-ID: <4B1FE110.20207@rampaginggeek.com> Pierre Abbat wrote: > On Wednesday 09 December 2009 08:41:04 Brian J. Miller wrote: > >> I wouldn't have necessarily said this in the past, but dual bootedness >> is so aware in new versions that you might just try it yourself and see >> how far you get. BACKUP YOUR FILES FIRST! But you should be doing that >> anyways, at least before you have someone (yourself included) attempt an >> install. >> > > I still suggest adding a disk to set up a dual boot. That's what I did years > ago when I set up my first Linux box. > > Melita, where are you? (Hopefully not near Gozo;)) > > Pierre > > If you have free hard drive space, I wouldn't bother with an extra disk. The ubuntu wabi install just installs alongside windows in the windows partition. Very nice. Jason From a.booker4 at ntlworld.com Tue Dec 22 01:17:25 2009 From: a.booker4 at ntlworld.com (Mark) Date: Tue Dec 22 01:17:30 2009 Subject: [Charlug] command line help please Message-ID: <4B306475.9050109@ntlworld.com> Hi there, I'm trying to think of an easy way to do this, basically I have a bunch of files with this naming format: filename_YYYYMMDDhhmm.ext I want to extract the YYYYMMDDhhmm part of each filename to use with 'touch' to change the datestamp: eg: touch filename_200912220115.jpg -t 200912220115 Can someone suggest a way to automate this? I would like to be able to process a whole directory at once, preferably a one-line command using pipes. Thanks, Mark From xlark at sdf.lonestar.org Tue Dec 22 04:07:05 2009 From: xlark at sdf.lonestar.org (Clark Hale) Date: Tue Dec 22 04:07:08 2009 Subject: [Charlug] command line help please In-Reply-To: <4B306475.9050109@ntlworld.com> References: <4B306475.9050109@ntlworld.com> Message-ID: On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 1:17 AM, Mark wrote: > Hi there, I'm trying to think of an easy way to do this, basically I have a > bunch of files with this naming format: > > filename_YYYYMMDDhhmm.ext > > I want to extract the YYYYMMDDhhmm part of each filename to use with 'touch' > to change the datestamp: > eg: > touch filename_200912220115.jpg -t 200912220115 > > Can someone suggest a way to automate this? I would like to be able to > process a whole directory at once, preferably a one-line command using > pipes. So long as you're using a Bourne-type shell (e.g. bash), probably something like this would do the trick. for i in filename_*.ext do touch $i -t `echo $i | sed -e 's/filename_\([0-9]\).ext/\1/'` done Depeding on how many files there are, your shell might barf. I know on AIX, there's an upper limit that's obscenely low (512 character maximum for the filename_*.ext glob. I think), but I'm not sure about Linux these days. Basic caveat emptor: YMMV, test first, &c. HTH, -CFH From a.booker4 at ntlworld.com Tue Dec 22 22:53:47 2009 From: a.booker4 at ntlworld.com (Mark) Date: Tue Dec 22 22:53:50 2009 Subject: [Charlug] command line help please In-Reply-To: References: <4B306475.9050109@ntlworld.com> Message-ID: <4B31944B.2080806@ntlworld.com> Thanks Clark, I tried it out in bash, but receive this error message: touch: invalid date format `filename_*.ext' any ideas? -Mark -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [Charlug] command line help please From: Clark Hale To: Mark Date: Tue Dec 22 2009 04:07:05 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time) > On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 1:17 AM, Mark wrote: >> Hi there, I'm trying to think of an easy way to do this, basically I have a >> bunch of files with this naming format: >> >> filename_YYYYMMDDhhmm.ext >> >> I want to extract the YYYYMMDDhhmm part of each filename to use with 'touch' >> to change the datestamp: >> eg: >> touch filename_200912220115.jpg -t 200912220115 >> >> Can someone suggest a way to automate this? I would like to be able to >> process a whole directory at once, preferably a one-line command using >> pipes. > > So long as you're using a Bourne-type shell (e.g. bash), probably > something like this would do the trick. > > for i in filename_*.ext > do > touch $i -t `echo $i | sed -e 's/filename_\([0-9]\).ext/\1/'` > done > > Depeding on how many files there are, your shell might barf. I know > on AIX, there's an upper limit that's obscenely low (512 character > maximum for the filename_*.ext glob. I think), but I'm not sure about > Linux these days. > > Basic caveat emptor: YMMV, test first, &c. > > HTH, > > -CFH > From phma at phma.optus.nu Wed Dec 23 00:47:04 2009 From: phma at phma.optus.nu (phma@phma.optus.nu) Date: Wed Dec 23 00:48:42 2009 Subject: [Charlug] test Message-ID: <20091223054723.B09BE58E0@mail.charlug.org> I just got two bounces, so I'm sending a test message manually. Pierre From ryan at open-pros.com Wed Dec 23 11:06:01 2009 From: ryan at open-pros.com (Ryan Sawhill) Date: Wed Dec 23 00:55:10 2009 Subject: [Charlug] command line help please In-Reply-To: <1014553080.80091261584220434.JavaMail.root@mail.open-pros.com> Message-ID: <1256912130.80111261584361900.JavaMail.root@mail.open-pros.com> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark" Cc: charlug@charlug.org Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 10:53:47 PM Subject: Re: [Charlug] command line help please Thanks Clark, I tried it out in bash, but receive this error message: touch: invalid date format `filename_*.ext' --------------------------- Here you go Mark. for i in * ; do touch -t `echo $i | sed -e s@.*_@@ -e 's@.jpg$@@'` $i; done Additional info which may or may not be obvious... * You can use any list of files or whatever kind of glob you want instead of a single asterisk. * Semicolons can be replaced with hard returns. * Full explanation: With this loop, for every file ($i), we are running one touch command to change its timestamp. To grab the ts, we need to use backticks to get some command substitution going. In there, were using sed (a search&replace editor) to 1) strip out everything before the first underscore and 2) to remove ".jpg" from the end. Sed's usual syntax (for what we're doing here anyway) is sed s/SEARCH STRING/REPLACE STRING/ [filename] The character immediately after "s" is the delimiting character and is arbitrary. Quoting the whole search/replace expression is a good habit to get into, but not always necessary. Enjoy! -- Ryan Sawhill, RHCE, RHCX Open Professionals, LLC gpg: D5914682 E5D2 815E C4DF 60EF 7417 0D84 DF98 7C98 D591 4682 From a.booker4 at ntlworld.com Wed Dec 23 06:00:53 2009 From: a.booker4 at ntlworld.com (Mark) Date: Wed Dec 23 06:01:09 2009 Subject: [Charlug] command line help please In-Reply-To: <1256912130.80111261584361900.JavaMail.root@mail.open-pros.com> References: <1256912130.80111261584361900.JavaMail.root@mail.open-pros.com> Message-ID: <4B31F865.6000702@ntlworld.com> Thanks Ryan, that was exactly what I was after, the explanation helped a lot too! -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [Charlug] command line help please From: Ryan Sawhill To: Mark Date: Wed Dec 23 2009 11:06:01 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time) > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mark" > Cc: charlug@charlug.org > Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 10:53:47 PM > Subject: Re: [Charlug] command line help please > > Thanks Clark, I tried it out in bash, but receive this error message: > > touch: invalid date format `filename_*.ext' > --------------------------- > > > Here you go Mark. > > for i in * ; do touch -t `echo $i | sed -e s@.*_@@ -e 's@.jpg$@@'` $i; done > > Additional info which may or may not be obvious... > * You can use any list of files or whatever kind of glob you want instead of a single asterisk. > * Semicolons can be replaced with hard returns. > * Full explanation: With this loop, for every file ($i), we are running one touch command to change its timestamp. To grab the ts, we need to use backticks to get some command substitution going. In there, were using sed (a search&replace editor) to 1) strip out everything before the first underscore and 2) to remove ".jpg" from the end. Sed's usual syntax (for what we're doing here anyway) is > sed s/SEARCH STRING/REPLACE STRING/ [filename] > The character immediately after "s" is the delimiting character and is arbitrary. > Quoting the whole search/replace expression is a good habit to get into, but not always necessary. > > Enjoy! > From nkr1ptd at gmail.com Wed Dec 23 12:54:23 2009 From: nkr1ptd at gmail.com (nkr1ptd) Date: Wed Dec 23 12:54:25 2009 Subject: [Charlug] test In-Reply-To: <20091223054723.B09BE58E0@mail.charlug.org> References: <20091223054723.B09BE58E0@mail.charlug.org> Message-ID: I received the message through the mailing list. -brandon On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 12:47 AM, wrote: > I just got two bounces, so I'm sending a test message manually. > > Pierre > _______________________________________________ > CharLUG mailing list > CharLUG@charlug.org > http://charlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/charlug > From peter.senft at hpss.de Wed Dec 30 11:23:37 2009 From: peter.senft at hpss.de (Peter Senft) Date: Wed Dec 30 11:23:45 2009 Subject: [Charlug] Test Message-ID: <4B3B7E89.7030902@hpss.de> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -- /"\ | Peter Senft \ / ASCII ribbon campaign | E-Mail : peter.senft@hpss.de X against HTML mail | FIDO : 2:2476/847.34 / \ | ICQ : 62090394 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAks5KkMACgkQ8C47DFW4ANPJdQCfZFMihKvVnb/HhDgJiJCIJP7Q MVgAoKVzh2j7izwPOls+I21saSRvg9cR =g0jv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From wiggins at danconia.org Wed Dec 30 12:46:09 2009 From: wiggins at danconia.org (Brian J. Miller) Date: Wed Dec 30 12:48:16 2009 Subject: [Charlug] Test In-Reply-To: <4B3B7E89.7030902@hpss.de> References: <4B3B7E89.7030902@hpss.de> Message-ID: <4B3B91E1.3000108@danconia.org> Peter Senft wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > - -- > /"\ | Peter Senft > \ / ASCII ribbon campaign | E-Mail : peter.senft@hpss.de > X against HTML mail | FIDO : 2:2476/847.34 > / \ | ICQ : 62090394 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iEYEARECAAYFAks5KkMACgkQ8C47DFW4ANPJdQCfZFMihKvVnb/HhDgJiJCIJP7Q > MVgAoKVzh2j7izwPOls+I21saSRvg9cR > =g0jv > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > CharLUG mailing list > CharLUG@charlug.org > http://charlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/charlug ACK -- Brian J. Miller End Point Corp. http://www.endpoint.com/ brian@endpoint.com