I think the best approach is to break the permission string up into an array with each element of the array being a single character. Then a few "if" statements can handle those pesky suid, sgid and sticky bits. Once they are gone, what's left is really a binary number with hyphen being a zero and everything else being a one. We can then convert that binary number to octal. Finally we just add in any of those high bits we found.
Part of the problem may be that the OP has a PATH with some screwy versions of normal system commands. So setting the PATH is probably wise.
Here is a script that displays the numeric mode for a file that is passed as a argument...
Makaveli.2003, does this script work for you? And I too would like to know what "uname -a" and "echo $PATH" give you.
when i list the content of a directory
date informations are also listed (ls -ltr)
for included files and directories.
for example: i see the date Jun 29 14:43
for one of the included directory,
but when i look into the files contained in
this directory i cannot see any file with this... (1 Reply)
hi,
say I have
dirA/file1
dirB/file2
and I tar them up, and then do
zcat Tar.tar | tar tvf -
Sometimes I will see:
dirA/
dirA/file1
dirB/
dirB/file2
yet other times I will see (4 Replies)
Hello All,
Got a question to make a script what reads a directory and put the file names from that directory in a file with some extra text.
ls /tempdir
output is:
file1.gfh
file2.txt
file4.zzz
these file names (always with an extention) must be placed in a line and written to... (2 Replies)
Hi all,
Have to generate an xml having information related to files in the directory
Suppose i have file
file1.xml (datafile)
file2.xml (datafile)
file3.xml (metafile)
Now i need to generate an xml in the format >>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<AuditFile Version="2.0">... (8 Replies)
Hi
i have a single line xml file having many account no tag, from which i need only the account no from the tag. any one can help on this.
below is the xml file:
... (2 Replies)
Hi to all,
I got this content/pattern from file http.log.20110808.gz
mail1 httpd: Account Notice: close igchung@abc.com 2011/8/7 7:37:36 0:00:03 0 0 1
mail1 httpd: Account Information: login sastria9@abc.com proxy sid=gFp4DLm5HnU
mail1 httpd: Account Notice: close sastria9@abc.com... (16 Replies)
Hi
I am trying to extract information out of a file but keep getting grep cant open errors
the code is below:
#bash
#extract orders with blank address details
#
# obtain the current date
# set today to the current date ccyymmdd format
today=`date +%c%m%d | cut -c24-31`
echo... (8 Replies)
I need my code to compare two different files that are in two completely different directories, How can I do this?
So for example, my code will look at file1 which is in my home directory, and compare the files with those from file2 that is in /abc/adf/adr/afc/adf/file2... does that make sense? (1 Reply)
I have a flat file that looks like this, let's call it Chromosome_9.txt:
FT /Gene_Name="Guanyl-Acetylase 9"
FT /Gene_Number"36952"
FT /Gene_Name="Endoplasmic Luciferase"
FT /Gene_Number"36953"
FT ... (4 Replies)
Hi Gurus,
I am SQL developer and new unix user.
I need to create some file and file content based on information in two files.
I have one file contains basic information below file1 and another exception file file2. the rule is if "zone' and "cd" in file1 exists in file2, then file name is... (13 Replies)
Discussion started by: Torhong
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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS
regex
regex(1F) FMLI Commands regex(1F)NAME
regex - match patterns against a string
SYNOPSIS
regex [-e] [-v "string"] [pattern template] ...
pattern [template]
DESCRIPTION
The regex command takes a string from the standard input, and a list of pattern / template pairs, and runs regex() to compare the string
against each pattern until there is a match. When a match occurs, regex writes the corresponding template to the standard output and
returns TRUE. The last (or only) pattern does not need a template. If that is the pattern that matches the string, the function simply
returns TRUE. If no match is found, regex returns FALSE.
The argument pattern is a regular expression of the form described in regex(). In most cases, pattern should be enclosed in single quotes
to turn off special meanings of characters. Note that only the final pattern in the list may lack a template.
The argument template may contain the strings $m0 through $m9, which will be expanded to the part of pattern enclosed in ( ... )$0 through
( ... )$9 constructs (see examples below). Note that if you use this feature, you must be sure to enclose template in single quotes so that
FMLI does not expand $m0 through $m9 at parse time. This feature gives regex much of the power of cut(1), paste(1), and grep(1), and some
of the capabilities of sed(1). If there is no template, the default is $m0$m1$m2$m3$m4$m5$m6$m7$m8$m9.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-e Evaluates the corresponding template and writes the result to the standard output.
-v "string" Uses string instead of the standard input to match against patterns.
EXAMPLES
Example 1 Cutting letters out of a string
To cut the 4th through 8th letters out of a string (this example will output strin and return TRUE):
`regex -v "my string is nice" '^.{3}(.{5})$0' '$m0'`
Example 2 Validating input in a form
In a form, to validate input to field 5 as an integer:
valid=`regex -v "$F5" '^[0-9]+$'`
Example 3 Translating an environment variable in a form
In a form, to translate an environment variable which contains one of the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 to the letters a, b, c, d, e:
value=`regex -v "$VAR1" 1 a 2 b 3 c 4 d 5 e '.*' 'Error'`
Note the use of the pattern '.*' to mean "anything else".
Example 4 Using backquoted expressions
In the example below, all three lines constitute a single backquoted expression. This expression, by itself, could be put in a menu defini-
tion file. Since backquoted expressions are expanded as they are parsed, and output from a backquoted expression (the cat command, in this
example) becomes part of the definition file being parsed, this expression would read /etc/passwd and make a dynamic menu of all the login
ids on the system.
`cat /etc/passwd | regex '^([^:]*)$0.*$' '
name=$m0
action=`message "$m0 is a user"`'`
DIAGNOSTICS
If none of the patterns match, regex returns FALSE, otherwise TRUE.
NOTES
Patterns and templates must often be enclosed in single quotes to turn off the special meanings of characters. Especially if you use the
$m0 through $m9 variables in the template, since FMLI will expand the variables (usually to "") before regex even sees them.
Single characters in character classes (inside []) must be listed before character ranges, otherwise they will not be recognized. For exam-
ple, [a-zA-Z_/] will not find underscores (_) or slashes (/), but [_/a-zA-Z] will.
The regular expressions accepted by regcmp differ slightly from other utilities (that is, sed, grep, awk, ed, and so forth).
regex with the -e option forces subsequent commands to be ignored. In other words, if a backquoted statement appears as follows:
`regex -e ...; command1; command2`
command1 and command2 would never be executed. However, dividing the expression into two:
`regex -e ...``command1; command2`
would yield the desired result.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO awk(1), cut(1), grep(1), paste(1), sed(1), regcmp(3C), attributes(5)SunOS 5.11 12 Jul 1999 regex(1F)