1. Shell Programming and Scripting

I am writing script that will act like the 'comm' utility. My problem is when trying to read whether the user has entered -123 or -1 or -1...etc. I currently have: if(m/??/g){ print "Good.\n"; } So, this should check for all... (1 Reply)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

how to find for a file whose name has all characters in uppercase after 'project'? I tried this: find . -name 'project**.pdf' ./projectABC.pdf ./projectABC123.pdf I want only ./projectABC.pdf What is the regular expression that correponds to "all characters are capital"? thanks (8 Replies)

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello, $line=USING (FILE '/TEST1/FILENAME'5000) I want to reterive the value between ' and ) which is 5000 here. i have tried out the following expressions ... Type 1 : $Var1=`sed -e 's/.*\' //' -e 's\).*$/' $line`; Type 2 : $Var1=`echo $line | awk -F"\'" '{print $2}' | awk -F"\\)"... (1 Reply)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello guys/gals, i am sorry as this is probably very simply but i am slowly learning perl and need to convert some old korn shell scripts. I need to be able to search a file line by line but only match a string at particular location on that line, for example character 20-30. So my file... (4 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello everybody, I am trying to connect from hp-ux to win 2003 using perl's Net::Telnet module. Seeing the examples in couple of web sites, I saw I have to declare a Prompt => Can somebody please tell me what my regular expression should be? The prompt after I log in is: ... login:... (1 Reply)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

i have a set of regular expressions. The words in the regular expression should be used to replace the i/p with hyphens '---'. i need perl script to evaluate these regular expression. the words in the regexes when found in the i/p file should be replaced with hyphens '---'. the set of regular... (3 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Take a look at this code: #!/usr/bin/perl use 5.008; $_ = "somename@address.com"; if(/\@\w+\.com/) { print "\n\nmight be an email address\n\n"; } else { print "\n\nnot an email address\n\n"; } Shouldn't the /\@\w+\.com/ evaluate as true? I've also tried: ... (3 Replies)

8. Programming

Hello all, i am in a bit of dilema here. i dont know any thing about perl or python. only know a little bit of awk. now unable to take a decission as to which language to go for. my requirement is building a testing framework.suite which will execute ssytem comands remotely on unix... (2 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi Team, I have two strings like: xxx|yyy|Arizona Cardinals| Tell Cardinals | Cardinals bbb|Bell Earn, Jr | Bell Earn | Jayhawks | hawks I have a lookup file which has a set of strings. These need to be removed from above two strings Lookup file Contents: Bell Earn, Jr hawks... (2 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

im trying to extract some tags between and in a file..for eg..the file format is I want the and extracted from the file i.e the tags which is present b/w and I have the regex for extracting the tags from the whole file but how to specify my search within the and... (1 Reply)