    cp ../dir5/dir4/dir3/dir2/file[1234] .

or (in Bash)

    cp ../dir5/dir4/dir3/dir2/file{1..4} .

If the file names are non-contiguous, you can use

    cp ../dir5/dir4/dir3/dir2/{march,april,may} .

If all the files you want to copy are in the pattern of `file{number}{othertext}`, you could use something like:

    cp ../dir5/dir4/dir3/dir2/file[0-9]* .

Note that this will copy `file5`, but it will also copy `file0abc`.

If you would like to copy ONLY those four files (and not the {othertext} ones), you can use:

    cp ../dir5/dir4/dir3/dir2/file[1-4] .

Note that while this *looks* like part of a regular expression, it is not.


Try this one:
   

     cp ../dir5/dir4/dir3/dir2/file{1..4}

I&#39;m trying to set an initial value in my jquery ui datepicker. I&#39;ve tried several different ways, but nothing seems to display the date, it&#39;s empty.

    var idag = new Date();
    $(&quot;#txtFrom&quot;).datepicker(&quot;setDate&quot;, idag - 2);
    $(&quot;#txtTom&quot;).datepicker(&quot;setDate&quot;, idag);
    $(&quot;#txtFrom&quot;).datepicker(&quot;refresh&quot;);
    $(&quot;#txtTom&quot;).datepicker(&quot;refresh&quot;);

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I have an App using core data with 3 entities with very similar attributes. The relationship is such as:

Branch -&gt;&gt; Menu -&gt;&gt; Category -&gt;&gt; FoodItem  

Each entity has an associated class: example

![enter image description here][1]

**I am trying to generate JSON representation of the data in sqlite database.**

    //gets a single menu record which has some categories and each of these have some food items
    id obj = [NSArray arrayWithObject:[[DataStore singleton] getHomeMenu]]; 
                     
    NSError *err;
    NSData *jsonData = [NSJSONSerialization dataWithJSONObject:obj options:NSJSONWritingPrettyPrinted error:&amp;err];
                     
    NSLog(@&quot;JSON = %@&quot;, [[NSString alloc] initWithData:jsonData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]);

But instead of JSON, i get a SIGABRT error.

    *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception &#39;NSInvalidArgumentException&#39;, reason: &#39;Invalid type in JSON write (Menu)&#39;

Any ideas how to fix it or how to make the entity classes (Branch, Menu etc) JSON serialization compatible? 


  [1]: http://i.stack.imgur.com/cJwYB.png

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I want to copy multiple files from a specific directory once I am in  another directory. To clarify I want to do the following, at once (one command):

    cp ../dir5/dir4/dir3/dir2/file1 .
    cp ../dir5/dir4/dir3/dir2/file2 .
    cp ../dir5/dir4/dir3/dir2/file3 .
    cp ../dir5/dir4/dir3/dir2/file4 .

I can&#39;t use  `cp ../dir5/dir4/dir3/dir2/* .`   because in `dir2` there are `n` files `(n&gt;4)`

By the way, I&#39;m using `bash`.

Thanks.

How to copy multiple files from a different directory using cp?

I want to copy multiple files from a specific directory once I am in another directory. To clarify I want to do the following, at once (one command):
<pre><code class="hljs language-bash">cp ../dir5/dir4/dir3/dir2/file1 .
cp ../dir5/dir4/dir3/dir2/file2 .
cp ../dir5/dir4/dir3/dir2/file3 .
cp ../dir5/dir4/dir3/dir2/file4 .
</code></pre>
I can't use <code>cp ../dir5/dir4/dir3/dir2/* .</code> because in <code>dir2</code> there are <code>n</code> files <code>(n>4)</code>
By the way, I'm using <code>bash</code>.
Thanks.

What is the way to print the search paths that in looked by **ld** in the order it searches.

How to print the ld(linker) search path

I&#39;m having problems getting my `rsync` syntax right and I&#39;m wondering if my scenario can actually be handled with `rsync`. First, I&#39;ve confirmed that `rsync` is working just fine between my local host and my remote host. Doing a straight sync on a directory is successful. 

Here&#39;s what my filesystem looks like:

    uploads/
      1260000000/
        file_11_00.jpg
        file_11_01.jpg
        file_12_00.jpg
      1270000000/
        file_11_00.jpg
        file_11_01.jpg
        file_12_00.jpg
      1280000000/
        file_11_00.jpg
        file_11_01.jpg
        file_12_00.jpg

What I want to do is run rsync only on files that begin with &quot;file_11_&quot; in the subdirectories and I want to be able to run just one rsync job to sync all of these files in the subdirectories. 

Here&#39;s the command that I&#39;m trying:

`rsync -nrv --include=&quot;**/file_11*.jpg&quot; --exclude=&quot;*&quot; /Storage/uploads/ /website/uploads/`

This results in `0` files being marked for transfer in my dry run. I&#39;ve tried various other combinations of `--include` and `--exclude` statements, but either continued to get no results or got everything as if no include or exclude options were set. 

Anyone have any idea how to do this? 

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I want to remove all the white spaces from a given text file.  Is there any shell command available for this ? Or, how to use `sed` for this purpose.

I want something like below:

&gt; $ cat hello.txt | sed ....


I tried this : `cat hello.txt | sed &#39;s/ //g&#39;` .But it removes only spaces, not tabs.



How to remove all white spaces from a given text file

I have a file called ***diff.txt***. I Want to check whether it is empty. 

I wrote a bash script something like below, but I couldn&#39;t get it work.


    if [ -s diff.txt ]
    then
            touch empty.txt
            rm full.txt
    else
            touch full.txt
            rm emtpy.txt
    fi

How to check if a file is empty in Bash?

I wrote a program for an assignment which is supposed to print its output to stdout. The assignment spec requires the creation of a Makefile which when invoked as `make run &gt; outputFile` should run the program and write the output to a file, which has a SHA1 fingerprint identical to the one given in the spec. 

My problem is that my makefile:

    ...
    run:
         java myprogram

    


 also prints the command which runs my program (e.g. java myprogram) to the output file, so that my file includes this extra line causing the fingerprint to be wrong.

Is there any way to execute a command without the command invocation echoing to the command line?


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I have as bash shell script with header `#!/bin/bash -e`.

When I run the script, it will be interrupted after the `grep` command runs, but when I remove the parameter `-e`, then the script can be run normally. What is the meaning of parameter `-e`?

What&#39;s the meaning of the parameter -e for bash shell command line?

I&#39;m trying to run this script on Mac OS 10.7 (Lion) and I&#39;m getting the error:

    $ bbcolors
    -bash: /usr/local/bin/bbcolors: /usr/bin/env: bad interpreter: Operation not permitted

I&#39;ve successfully run this script on other Macs of mine. It&#39;s just [this script][1] downloaded and unmodified from Daring Fireball.

I found [this person][2] with a very similar problem but the accepted answer was that the filesystem had a &#39;noexe&#39; option on mount.  I&#39;m pretty sure that&#39;s not the case for me because I&#39;ve just got it in /usr/local/bin/ and other stuff in there works fine (it also doesn&#39;t run from other places or as other users including root).

    $ which bbcolors
    /usr/local/bin/bbcolors
    $ ls -l /usr/local/bin/bbcolors 
    -rwxr-xr-x@ 1 nick  staff  9751 Mar 30 19:09 /usr/local/bin/bbcolors

It&#39;s a Perl script not a compiled binary, not that that should matter.  Here&#39;s some extra info for what it&#39;s worth:

    $ cat /usr/local/bin/bbcolors |head -n 1
    #!/usr/bin/env perl
    $ which perl
    /usr/bin/perl
    $ env | grep PATH
    PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin


  [1]: http://daringfireball.net/projects/bbcolors/
  [2]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9501063/sysroot-sh-operation-not-permitted

Mac OS: /usr/bin/env: bad interpreter: Operation not permitted

I&#39;m trying to store the files listing into an array and then loop through the array again. 
Below is what I get when I run `ls -ls` command from the console.

    total 40
    36 -rwxrwxr-x 1 amit amit 36720 2012-03-31 12:19 1.txt
    4 -rwxrwxr-x 1 amit amit  1318 2012-03-31 14:49 2.txt

The following bash script I&#39;ve written to store the above data into a bash array. 

    i=0
    ls -ls | while read line
    do
        array[ $i ]=&quot;$line&quot;        
        (( i++ ))
    done

But when I `echo $array`, I get nothing! 

FYI, I run the script this way: `./bashscript.sh`


How to store directory files listing into an array?

Why would this work

    timeout 10s echo &quot;foo bar&quot; # foo bar
but this wouldn&#39;t

    function echoFooBar {
      echo &quot;foo bar&quot;
    }

    echoFooBar # foo bar

    timeout 10s echoFooBar # timeout: failed to run command `echoFooBar&#39;: No such file or directory

and how can I make it work?

Execute a shell function with timeout

I have two directories and one is empty.

The first directory has many sub directories with hidden files. When I `cp -r` content from  first directory to the second one, the hidden files gets copied too. Any solutions to escape them?



cp -r without hidden files

I&#39;m working with a CentOS server. I have a folder named `test` located in `/home/server/folder/test`. I need to copy the directory `test` to `/home/server/`. How can I do it?

CentOS: Copy directory to another directory

I am having some issues to copy a folder with files in that folder into another folder. Command `cp -r` doesn&#39;t copy files in the folder.


How do I copy folder with files to another folder in Unix/Linux?

Under unix, I want to copy all files with a certain extension (all excel files) from all subdirectories to another directory. I have the following command:

    cp --parents `find -name \*.xls*` /target_directory/

The problems with this command are:

- It copies the directory structure as well, and I only want the files (so all files should end up in /target_directory/)

- It does not copy files with spaces in the filenames (which are quite a few)

Any solutions for these problems?

Copy all files with a certain extension from all subdirectories

I&#39;m trying to write a Bash script that will overwrite an existing directory. I have a directory `foo/` and I am trying to overwrite `bar/` with it. But when I do this:

    cp -Rf foo/ bar/

a new `bar/foo/` directory is created. I don&#39;t want that. There are two files in `foo/`; `a` and `b`. There are files with same names in `bar/` as well. I want the `foo/a` and `foo/b` to replace `bar/a` and `bar/b`.


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