1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi I've been searching google and have not found what egrep -c means. Does anyone know where I can get a cheat sheet or what that -c means? thanks, Linda (2 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi everyone, I have a basic csh/awk question. How do I print a given field from a given line in a given file? Thanks in advance! (11 Replies)

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, I'm trying to print every line from first field to the fourth from a file containing more. $ cat input a b c d e f g a b c d e f gI'm trying awk '{for (i=1; i <= NF-3; i++) print $i}' awkTest.datbut it printsa b c d a b c dSo, I easily guess I'm wrong. :) Of course, I want:a b... (5 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Need help. I have this: <li><a href="/wiki/Yunus_(sura)" title="Yunus (sura)">Yunus</a> (<a href="/wiki/Islamic_view_of_Jonah" title="Islamic view of Jonah" class=" mw-redirect">Junus</a> or <a href="/wiki/Jonah">Jonah</a>), 109 ayat, 11 ruku's, Meccan</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hud_(sura)"... (1 Reply)

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi ! I have a tab-delimited file, file.tab: Column1 Column2 Column3 aaaaaaaaaa bbtomatoesbbbbbb cccccccccc ddddddddd eeeeappleseeeeeeeee ffffffffffffff ggggggggg hhhhhhtomatoeshhh iiiiiiiiiiiiiiii ... (18 Replies)

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hey, I'm sure this is answered somewhere but my Googling has turned up nothing. I have a file with data in the following format: <desription of event> at <time and date>The desription of the event is variable length and hence when the list is displayed it is hard to easily see the date (and... (8 Replies)

7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, I have below text file 01.02.2014,asdas,arse,aere,4tfsd 12.03.2014,sdte,45gf,8iuj,qw343w 01.02.0214,aetre,sdfgter,asfrwe I have writen below code to print only first field that is only date field from text file #!/bin/ksh echo "enter week" read week while read -r... (6 Replies)

8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I want to print line by line only the first field from txt file input file etr,t7tu,e45xdt,e45exgt,cdgfe aqw34aw,45edgf,45estd,sert34 a232e,4etedf,w345er,qw345rw, qw354,q34asf,tw45f,q3drsf required o/p file etr aqw34aw a232e qw354 (1 Reply)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, I have a text file in the below format: Source Destination State Lag Status CQA02W2K12pl:D:\CAQA ... (10 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi I need to egrep patterns in a file and limit number of matches to print for each matched pattern. -m10 option is not working out in my sun solaris 5.10 Please guide me the options to achieve. if i do head -10 , i wont be getting all pattern match results as output since for a... (10 Replies)