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Remove extension in a bash script

Posted on November 30, 2016 by Thomas Cokelaer

Imagine a bunch of files with extension fastq.dsrc, the following script will decompress the files by looping over the N files. One issue was to remove the extension in the script. See below the usage of // for filename in … Continue reading →

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Set the default printer under linux

Posted on September 22, 2011 by Thomas Cokelaer

If you want to set the default printer, you can use the command line interface and type: export PRINTER=printer-nameexport PRINTER=printer-name If you want to set the default printer permanently, and if your shell is bash (most common by default), you … Continue reading →

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scp does not work: wrong bashrc

Posted on September 13, 2011 by Thomas Cokelaer

When I tried to use scp to copy a file on a distant machine: scp -v filename username@xxx.xxx.xxx:/home/usernamescp -v filename username@xxx.xxx.xxx:/home/username it looked as if the SCP command works but the file is not copied. The interactive option (-v) does … Continue reading →

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