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>Chapter 19. Miscellaneous</H1
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>The miscellaneous <A
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>chapter contains commands that don't really fit into the other sections <A
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>of this guide.</P
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>renaming&nbsp;extensions</DT
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><A
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>To rename <A
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>all of the files in the current <A
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>directory<A
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> with a '.htm' extension <A
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>to '.html', type:</P
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>$ chcase -x 's/htm/html/' '*.htm'<A
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>You can get a copy <A
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>of <SPAN
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>the chcase <A
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> perl <A
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>For more <A
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>complex <A
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>renaming <A
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>you should read <A
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>the Section called <I
>Mass Rename/copy/link Tools</I
> in Chapter 7</A
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>[1]</SPAN
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>Use rel <A
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>to analyze <A
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>text files for relevance <A
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>to a given set of keywords.<A
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> It outputs <A
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>the names of those files that are relevant <A
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>to the given keywords, ranked <A
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>in order <A
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>of relevance;<A
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> if a file does not meet the criteria,<A
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> it is not outputted in the relevance <A
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>listing.</P
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>units&nbsp;man&nbsp;page</DT
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>There is a man page, part of the <SPAN
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> Programmers <A
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>Manual called &ldquo;units&rdquo;. It displays various information <A
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>on the various scientific <A
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>measurements<A
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> (such as mega,<A
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> giga <A
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>et cetera). This manual <A
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>page <A
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>also has a short discussion about the argument <A
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>over which<A
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> standard <A
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>should be used to measure <A
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>data (ie. the kibibyte <A
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>vs kilobyte). </P
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>To access <A
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>this man page type:</P
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>man 7 units</PRE
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>fortune</DT
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><P
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><SPAN
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> is a tool which will print <A
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>a random,<A
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> hopefully interesting quote <A
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>or entertaining short piece <A
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>of writing.<A
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> There are options <A
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>to customise <A
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>which area the epigrams <A
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>should come from. Just type <SPAN
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> to get a random <A
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>epigram <A
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>from any section.<A
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> </P
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>Simply type:</P
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>fortune</PRE
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>This information information comes from the <SPAN
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> Cookbook (without editing). See [3] in the <A
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