... I dont understand why some like:
hostname -s | sed '/..../p'
wont work? ...
Because that sed line says: "If the incoming line has 4 characters then print it."
If you wanted to print just the first 4 with sed, you could use:
which seems cumbersome compared to the cut, but sed is capable of much more than cut ... cheers, drl
Hello,
I am new to Solaris.
I am using stand alone Solaris 10.0 for test/study purpose and connecting to internet via an ADSL modem which has DHCP server. My Solaris is working on VMWare within winXP. My WinXP and Solaris connects to internet by the same ADSL modem via its DHCP at the same... (1 Reply)
Hi,
How can I split the characters in a word?
For Eg:
If my input is:
command
my output should be:
c
o
m
m
a
n
d
Please help me in doing it so. (5 Replies)
suppose
fileA
kanika123ABC 1222222222222222
raciat5678ty 1221123333331121
jessica78ulllo 2233243223333333
so output shud be print only first 10 characters in series and rest remain same
kanika123A 1222222222222222
raciat5678 1221123333331121
jessica78u ... (1 Reply)
Hi Anyone can help me??i writing a perl using array to translate ip address to the hostname my script are below.this line print "$myhost{$ipaddr}\n"; blank :mad:hostname dint come out:mad::mad:
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
@ipaddr=("192.1.168.2","172.25.1.13","129.1.2.5");
%myhost = { 192.1.168.2... (4 Replies)
Hi,
i want to use awk to print the first 6 characters of a variable
awk -F"|" '$3>0 { print $3 }' z00.unl > z001.unl
but $3= 7 digits
and i just want to print the first 6 digits.
eg 1005779 but i want to print only 100577 (3 Replies)
Hi,
I have this header on a script:
echo "*************************************"
How can I print 1000 "*" characters without to put them on the echo command? Understand?
THIS IS AN EXAMPLE WHAT I NEED:
print "1000 *"
Or is possible to print or echo "*" characters until they... (8 Replies)
Hi All,
So we added a new HP-UX 11.31 machine. Copied OS via Ignite-UX (DVD)over from this machine called machine_a. It was supposed to be named machine_c. And it is when you log in...however when I'm in the ILO console before logging in, it says:
It should say:
What gives? And how do... (4 Replies)
Hello all,
I have a data like this:
X:04252 X:05524 X:04176
X:05509 X:05524 X:04674-
X:1662912 X:10181
X:16491 X:05506
X:05216- X:05488
X:46872 X:08471
X:04834 X:30170
The except result is like this:
X:04252 X:05524 X:04176
X:05509 X:05524 X:04674
X:16629 X:10181... (3 Replies)
Hi
How to pass echo output to a variable ?
Does below awk command will get the last character of hostname and assign to a variable - "svr" ?
svr=$( echo `hostname` | awk '{print substr($0,length,1)}' )
Thanks.
Please use CODE tags when dsplaying code segments, sample input, and sample... (7 Replies)
Hi all,
i'm trying to gether multiple pattern on remote hosts, and trying to print hostname and the pattern,
ssh remoteserver1 -C 'hostname 2>&1;cat /var/log/server1.log | awk -F ";" '"'"'{ print " "$2" "$5}'"'"'| sort | uniq -c | sort -g -r '
The output is the following,
remoteserver1
... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: charli1
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shtool-subst
SHTOOL-SUBST.TMP(1) GNU Portable Shell Tool SHTOOL-SUBST.TMP(1)NAME
shtool-subst - GNU shtool sed(1) substitution operations
SYNOPSIS
shtool subst [-v|--verbose] [-t|--trace] [-n|--nop] [-w|--warning] [-q|--quiet] [-s|--stealth] [-i|--interactive] [-b|--backup ext]
[-e|--exec cmd] [-f|--file cmd-file] [file] [file ...]
DESCRIPTION
This command applies one or more sed(1) substitution operations to stdin or any number of files.
OPTIONS
The following command line options are available.
-v, --verbose
Display some processing information.
-t, --trace
Enable the output of the essential shell commands which are executed.
-n, --nop
No operation mode. Actual execution of the essential shell commands which would be executed is suppressed.
-w, --warning
Show warning on substitution operation resulting in no content change on every file. The default is to show a warning on substitution
operations resulted in no content change on all files.
-q, --quiet
Suppress warning on substitution operation resulting in no content change.
-s, --stealth
Stealth operation. Preserve timestamp on file.
-i, --interactive
Enter interactive mode where the user has to approve each operation.
-b, --backup ext
Preserve backup of original file using file name extension ext. Default is to overwrite the original file.
-e, --exec cmd
Specify sed(1) command directly.
-f, --file cmd-file
Read sed(1) command from file.
EXAMPLE
# shell script
shtool subst -i -e 's;(c) ([0-9]*)-2000;(c) 1-2001;' *.[ch]
# RPM spec-file
%install
shtool subst -v -n
-e 's;^(prefix=).*;1 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_prefix};g'
-e 's;^(sysconfdir=).*;1 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_prefix}/etc;g'
`find . -name Makefile -print`
make install
HISTORY
The GNU shtool subst command was originally written by Ralf S. Engelschall <rse@engelschall.com> in 2001 for GNU shtool. It was prompted
by the need to have a uniform and convenient patching frontend to sed(1) operations in the OpenPKG package specifications.
SEE ALSO shtool(1), sed(1).
18-Jul-2008 shtool 2.0.8 SHTOOL-SUBST.TMP(1)