i have a variable 200612
the last two digits of this variable should be between 1 and 12, it should not be greater than 12 or less than 1 (for ex: 00 or 13,14,15 is not accepted)
how do i check for this conditions in a unix shell script.
Sorry if this has been posted before, I searched but not sure what I really want to do.
I have a file with records that show who has logged into my application:
2003-03-14:I:root: Log_mesg: registered servername:userid. (more after this)
I want to pull out the userid, date and time into... (2 Replies)
Hi all,
I have a flatfile
I would like to get ext = 7950 , how do I do that ?
if ($1 == "CTI-ProgramStart") {
ext = substr($9,index($9,"Extension")+11,4);
But why it is not working ???? Please help .
Thanks (1 Reply)
Hi
I have multiple files that name begins bidb_yyyymm. (yyyymm = current year month of file creation).
What I want to do is look at the files and where yyyymm is older than 1 month I want to remove the file from the server.
I was looking at looping through the files and getting the yyyymm... (2 Replies)
I have a variable '$test' that has the following string value:
$test = 123|456|789|0123
How would I select just the first element ('123') using awk.
Note: '|' is the delimiter, and the length of each field can vary.
Thanks,
- CB (3 Replies)
I have the following to find lines matching "COMPLETE" and extract parts of it using substr.
sed -n "/COMPLETE/p" 1.txt | awk 'BEGIN { FS = "\" } {printf"%s %s:%s \n", substr($3,17,3),substr($6,4,1), substr($7,4,1)}' | sort | uniq > temp.txt
Worked fine until the numbers in 2nd & 3rd substr... (5 Replies)
HI I am using awk and substr function to list out the directory names in the present working directory .
I am using below code
ls -l | awk '{ if ((substr($1,1,1)) -eq d) {print $9 }}'
But the problem is i am getting all the files and directories listed where as the requirement i wrote... (7 Replies)
Hi to all,
I'm here again, cause I need your help to solve another issue for me.
I have some files that have this name format: date_filename.csv
In my shell I must rename each file removing the date so that the file name is filename.csv
To do this I use this command:
fnames=`ls ${fname}|... (2 Replies)
Hello life savers!!
Is there any way to use substr in awk command for returning one part of a string from declared start and stop point?
I mean I know we have this:
substr(string, start, length)
Do we have anything like possible to use in awk ? :
substr(string, start, stop)
... (9 Replies)
Hi,
- In a file test.wmi
Col1 | firstName | lastName
4003 | toto_titi_CT- | otot_itit
- I want to have only ( colones $7,$13 and $15) with code 4003 and 4002. for colone $13 I want to have the whole name untill _CT- or _GC-
1- I used the command egrep with awk
#egrep -i... (2 Replies)
Hello All;
I have an input file 'abc.txt' with below text:
512345977,213458,100021
512345978,213454,100031
512345979,213452,100051
512345980,213455,100061
512345981,213456,100071
512345982,213456,100091
512345983,213457,100041
512345984,213451,100011
I need to paste the first field... (10 Replies)
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read
read(1) General Commands Manual read(1)NAME
read - read a line from standard input
SYNOPSIS
var ...
DESCRIPTION
reads a single line from standard input. The line is split into fields as when processed by the shell (refer to shells in the first field
is assigned to the first variable var, the second field to the second variable var, and so forth. If there are more fields than there are
specified var operands, the remaining fields and their intervening separators are assigned to the last var. If there are more vars than
fields, the remaining vars are set to empty strings.
The setting of variables specified by the var operands affect the current shell execution environment.
Standard input to can be redirected from a text file.
Since affects the current shell execution environment, it is usually provided as a normal shell special (built-in) command. Thus, if it is
called in a subshell or separate utility execution environment similar to the following, it does not affect the shell variables in the
caller's environment:
Options
recognizes the following options:
Do not treat a backslash character in any special way.
Consider each backslash to be part of the input line.
Opperands
recognizes the following operands:
var The name of an existing or nonexisting shell variable.
EXTERNAL INFLUENCES
Environment Variables
determines the internal field separators used to delimit fields.
RETURN VALUE
exits with one of the following values:
0 Successful completion.
>0 End-of-file was detected or an error occurred.
EXAMPLES
Print a file with the first field of each line moved to the end of the line.
while read -r xx yy
do
printf "%s %s
" "$yy" "$xx"
done < input_file
SEE ALSO csh(1), ksh(1), sh(1), sh-posix(1).
STANDARDS CONFORMANCE read(1)