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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi I have a file passwd_exmpl that contains:
root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
bin:x:1:1:bin:/bin:/sbin/nologin
daemon:x:2:2:daemon:/sbin:/sbin/nologin
adm:x:3:4:adm:/var/adm:/sbin/nologin
lp:x:4:7:lp:/var/spool/lpd:/sbin/nologin
sync:x:5:0:sync:/sbin:/bin/sync... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: eladage
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2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Say I have a text file (allWords.txt), that contains all the words in the dictionary, line by line, that I would like to search through. Here is a snippet of what it might looks like...
Code:
a aah aahed aahing aahs aardvark aardvarks aardwolf ab abaci aback abacus abacuses abaft ......
I... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: blackvelvet
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3. Solaris
Hello,
I am running Solaris 8. When issuing the command "stty lcase" all text which is output to the terminal are capitalized. Letters that are supposed to be capitals are preceded by a backslash during output. All text which is input is converted to lower case. This is the expected behaviour... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: rstor
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi guys.
I have file named output.txt containing file names. one per line. I use this command to convert all characters to capital letters and write to the same file.
cat output.txt | tr 'a-z' 'A-Z' > output.txtBut at the end output.txt is emtpy. Could anyone help?? (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: majid.merkava
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello everyone I tell you that I'm trying to do a bash program that can put parentheses around each capital letter of each line using SED.
I tell you probe with:
sed -e '1,$s/A/(A)/g' "$file"
but only add parentheses in A.
then tested with:
sed 'y/AB/(A)(B)/' "$archivo"
but it... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: adiegorpc
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I just want to search a file for any words containng a capital letter and then display these words only as a list
I have been trying grep but to no has not helped.(im using the bash shell) (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: djdaniel3
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
hi guys, I know this might be very simple for u but not for me.
I simply want to print the active users, changeing the first letter in their names to capital. i guess sed it's useful but don't know how to find the correspondign capital letter and don't know how to change just the first... (16 Replies)
Discussion started by: atticus
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have a korn shell script with 1 parameter.
My script deletes certain files, for example....
sid=$1
rm $ORC/dbs/orapwd${sid} #orapwddb1
rm $ORC/dbs/lk${sid} #lkDB1
In the first file, the $sid must be in small letters and in the second file, the $sid must be in capital... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: n8575
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi everyone.
I wanted to convert capital characters to small one.
So i tried to use:
sed -e "y///"
but this won't work.
And
sed -e "y/ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz/"
this worked well.
Does anyone know why?? (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Euler04
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I have an odd issue.
I am trying to copy some files/folders to my linux box via a burned CD which I created on my mac. When I browse the files on the mac (or my windows box), everything looks fine (some of the folder names start with a capital letter, which is needed for everything to work... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: blogg
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