1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, variable1="This is a car" Now I want to replace the content of variable1, "car" to "dog". Is there any simple command I can use. Thanks. Joseph (4 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a variable that contains filenames like this: variable="file_1.extension<blank>file_2.extension<blank>file_3.extension<blank>file_4.extension and so on" How can I make filenames to be separated by newline: (I tried Sed but it didn't worked well) file_1.extension file_2.extension... (6 Replies)

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi all, I have a problem here. I have a file and let we take the content of the file is just '32' (only a numeric value in that file). Now I need to assign this numeric value ( value in that file) to a variable. Is that possible? If so, can you plz advice me on this? Thanks in... (4 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

I want to address a variable content whose name is/matches the content of a given other variable. i.e. set name=´sam´ set ${name}_age=´27´ So, by typing: echo ${name}_age I correctly obtain: sam_age By typing: echo $sam_age or echo ${sam_age} I correctly obtain: 27 But how can I... (3 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

I am having one string like ./usr1/Server/temp/app.env ./usr1/Server/temp/upp/app.env ./usr1/Server/ORIG_temp/app.env ./usr1/Server/ORIG_temp/upp/app.env ./usr1/Server/work_temp_40/app.env ./usr1/Server/work_temp_40/upp/app.env ./usr1/fd/app.env ./usr1/PurgeArchive/app.env ./usr1/bm/bin/app.env... (6 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Input data_10 SSA data_2 TYUE data_3 PEOCV data_6 SSAT data_21 SSA data_19 TYUEC data_14 TYUE data_15 SSA data_32 PEOCV . . Desired Output data_10 SSA data_2 TYUE data_3 PEOCV data_6 SSAT data_19 TYUEC (9 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello all, I do have a variable containing one line like this: Waiting for job XXXXXX to start I needed to get the 'XXXXXX' literal, so I did the following: job_interno=`echo $log_exec | sed 's/.*Waiting for job \(*\).*/\1/' ` #other stuff Now, my variable is have more... (5 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

I am in the process of developing a perl cgi page. I had succeeded in developing the page but there are few errors/issues with the page. description about cgi page: My CGI page retrieves all the file names from an directory and displays the files in drop down menu for downloading the... (5 Replies)

9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

hi i just cant figure out how can i do this ls -lt > log.txt using $PWD what i mean is how can i get the ls command content into a file using $PWD variable? :confused: (4 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Dear all, I have a "SQL request" in a file: that request include different "host variable" and I would like to substitute the different "host variable" by their respective content before executing the request. For example: $ echo $SHELL /bin/bash $ cat dae2.txt DELETE FROM ... (11 Replies)