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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
How to match a shell variable that contains parenthesis (and other special characters like "!")
file.txt contains:
Charles Dickens
Matthew Lewis (writer)
name="Matthew Lewis (writer)";
awk -v na="$name" ' $0 ~ na' file.txt
Ideally this would match $name in file.txt (in this... (3 Replies)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I am fairly new to unix scripting and recently tasked with some reporting scripts.
The reporting checks several batch jobs and this is quite iterative.
Now I am trying to minimize script effort and maximize reusability as there are only slight nuances in the repetitive tasks.
For... (3 Replies)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hey guys,
I know that title is a mouthful - I'll try to better explain my struggles a little better...
What I'm trying to do is:
1. Query a db and output to a file, a list of column data.
2. Then, for each line in this file, repeat these values but wrap them with:
ITEM{
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
i need to replace the any special characters with escape characters like below.
test!=123-> test\!\=123
!@#$%^&*()-= to be replaced by
\!\@\#\$\%\^\&\*\(\)\-\= (8 Replies)
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hey guys,
I'm trying to replace "]Facebook" from the text
but
sed 's/]Facebook/Johan/g'
is not working
could you please help me with that? (6 Replies)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
This has been covered many times earlier but couldnt figure the issue myself. Can you please advise whats wrong on the below code
I have a variable with special character ($) and am using that variable to replace another variable in file but however sed is failing to parse it correctly
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi all,
I was wondering how can i see the special characters like \t, \n or anything else in a file by using Nano or any other linux command like less, more etc (6 Replies)
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
I am trying the following:
echo __CHANGEME__ >> testfile
VAR1="&&&"
sed -i "s|__CHANGEME__|${VAR1}|" testfile
cat testfile
This results in testfile containing
__CHANGEME____CHANGEME____CHANGEME__
Whereas I want it to result in
&&&
I understand that if
VAR1="\&\&\&"
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello-
I have a variables that contains a string like this usr/pass@SCHEMA
I want to extract the usr/pass part and ignore the SCHEMA part, I tried to use this ${dbconn%%@} and apparently it will not work because @ is a special character. I tried \@ and still no go.
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10. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Hi,
Please find the Question Summary below-
In our email template document(.txt) bullets and Apostrophe are getting replaced by the string "£" in our Live environment.We are using sun solaris 8 in live.
Can anybody let me know why this happens and how to prevent this .
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Discussion started by: kaushik05
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05-26-2012
