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Hello,
The scenario is as follows, I have a background process running initially for which i know the PID on machine1. I use ssh from machine 2 to execute a script in machine 1. For some...

Hello,
The scenario is as follows, I have a background process running initially for which i know the PID on machine1. I use ssh from machine 2 to execute a script in machine 1. For some...

Thanks Kumaran, for the timely reply, it worked perfectly. exactly what i wanted to do

Hello,
I have a set of directories, which has inside them, symbolic links to some files. What i would like to do is to covert the links into actual files, i.e. remove the link and copy the...

thank you for the quick reply.. it works. I think this is a very basic question.. sorry :)

Hello,
somewhere in a shell script, i am storing the output of "ls" into a variable. My question is how can i parse this variable to get each filepath. I don't want to create a temporary...

Thanks a lot for the replies guys,.

I used the $? method and it works fine.

I am trying to get the exit status of grep and test a condition with it, But it does not seem to be working as expected since i am doing something wrong apparently

as per grep help
Exit status is...

Indeed it works, Thanks for the reply.

thanks for the answer

but the problem is i can have more than one lines continuously in the string.I just need to extract the whole filepath.

I was thinking of using grep -o in order to display...

I am trying to match a similar line using grep with regular expression

the line is
/remote/mac/pbbbb/abc/def/hij/hop/include/abc/tif/element/test/testfiles/Office.cpp:57: const OfficeType&...

Thanks for the replies guys

The solution proposed by abubacker fits a lot my requirements
cat test | sed -nr 's/.*(get[a-zA-Z]*\(\)).*/\1/p'

Actually in the test.txt file I have more than one...

Hello,
I am new to sed and am trying to extract a word using sed.

for example i have a line "const TotalAmount& getTotalAmount() const; " in the file test.txt

I am trying to extract...