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remove file named 1 after fat fingeriing :w! in vi
This is sample output - yours may be different.
-2

:rm 1

drossman · 2009-02-28 15:01:56 4
read Windows ACLs from Linux

You can read, add, delete and modify Windows permissions from Linux using smbcacls from the smb-client package. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
[user@bigdaddy ~]# smbcacls //bigdaddy/Music enigma -U sambauser
Password:
REVISION:1
CONTROL:0x9004
OWNER:S-1-5-21-3153736633-1905262503-1117118772-1000
GROUP:Unix Group@users
ACL:S-1-5-21-3153736633-1905262503-1117118772-1000:ALLOWED/0x0/FULL
ACL:Unix Group@users:ALLOWED/0x0/FULL
ACL:Everyone:ALLOWED/0x0/READ
```
1

smbcacls //server/sharename file -U username

drossman · 2009-02-16 18:52:14 10
use perl instead of sed

Replace sed regular expressions with perl patterns on the command line. The sed equivalent is: echo "sed -e"|sed -e 's/sed -e/perl -pe/' Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
[root@bigdaddy ~]# echo "sed -e"|perl -pe 's/sed -e/perl -pe/'
perl -pe
```
-1

echo "sed -e"|perl -pe 's/sed -e/perl -pe/'

drossman · 2009-02-16 18:39:06 1151
scp file from hostb to hostc while logged into hosta

While at the command line of of hosta, scp a file from remote hostb to remote hostc. This saves the step of logging into hostb and then issuing the scp command to hostc.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
8

scp user@hostb:file user@hostc:

drossman · 2009-02-16 18:33:08 1261
Change string in many files at once and more.

Find all files that contain string XXX in them, change the string from XXX to YYY, make a backup copy of the file and save a list of files changed in /tmp/fileschanged.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
6

find . -type f -exec grep -l XXX {} \;|tee /tmp/fileschanged|xargs perl -pi.bak -e 's/XXX/YYY/g'

drossman · 2009-02-16 02:55:23 61

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