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# 8  
Old 10-28-2014
I am in AIX ksh93 and it did not work.

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yes i ran perl -v and it is giving output like this, but i have no idea about perl.

Please let me know if my ouput stored in some variable where i need to put that in ur command instead of print

print abc dbc

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can anyone help me getting to under stand what does this command do.
Code:
line=${line#$single}

# 9  
Old 10-28-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by pallvi_mahajan
I am in AIX ksh93 and it did not work.

---------- Post updated at 07:50 AM ---------- Previous update was at 07:48 AM ----------

yes i ran perl -v and it is giving output like this, but i have no idea about perl.

Please let me know if my ouput stored in some variable where i need to put that in ur command instead of print

print abc dbc
Code:
$line = "whatever your want to print"
printf "$line" | perl -ne ' @x = split("",$_); print "$_\n" foreach(@x); '

Last edited by vbe; 11-03-2014 at 12:32 PM..
# 10  
Old 10-28-2014
but how if i need to fetch this character in loop and need to do another action, then how i can do.

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i need to take that character and grep in my file in which i mentioned valid character.

---------- Post updated at 08:49 AM ---------- Previous update was at 08:07 AM ----------

can some please let me know what does this command do

Code:
line=${line#$single}

# 11  
Old 10-28-2014
Try awk if you have

Code:
$ echo 'abcdefgh ijk' | awk '{for(i=1;i<=NF;i++)print $i}' FS=""
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