Is there a standard way to make a shell script read a file, or list, and skip each line that contains # at the begining, or ignores the content starting after a # in line?
I'm looking to mimic the way commenting in a shell script normally works. This way I can comment my text files and lists my... (4 Replies)
From the below file I want to grep only the lines except the comment sections. But grep -v "#" is eliminating the last line because it has one # in between.
Any idea how can I ignore only the lines which have # at the begining (I mean comment lines) ?
Thanks a lot to all in advance
C Saha (1 Reply)
Dear all,
When i ask a question in my script if the answer is not correct i need to goback to the begning of the script and ask the question again.
ex - What is your name ?
saman
Name is not correct ...try again
What is the name ?
Nimal
Thank you.... (2 Replies)
All,
i have some doubt on #!/bin/bash or #!/bin/ksh at the begining of script.
Need to know folowing thing ?
-- what would be the problem if i will mention in the first line #!/bin/bash
and will use korn shell syntax and the reverse ?
-- Can i mention at the... (1 Reply)
I am trying to write for my class project a shell script, using bourne shell, that will take one command, either -l or -w. If -l is entered then the script should output the names of all the files in my working directory sorted in increasing order of the number of lines in the file. If -w is input... (2 Replies)
Hi Guru's
I've a variable "COUNT", which has the total number of records.
I need to print the contents of COUNT in 8 digit form to a file.
If count is 1, I need to print 00000001
If count is 23, I need to print 00000023 same way
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the... (3 Replies)
Hi People,
I need some Help to write a unix script that asks for a sentence to be typed out then with the sentence. Counts the number of spaces within the sentence and then echo's out "The Number Of Spaces In The Sentence is 4" as a example
Thanks
Danielle (12 Replies)
I would like to check with grep in this configuration file:
{
"alt-speed-down": 200,
"alt-speed-enabled": true,
"alt-speed-time-begin": 1140,
"alt-speed-time-day": 127,
"...something..." : true,
...
}
"alt-speed-enabled" (the third line of the file) is setted to... (2 Replies)
hi,
i need my bash script to find regex in xml file.. and comment 2 lines before and after the line that contains regex.. can't use # needs to be <!-- at the beginning and --> and the end of the comment.
so eg..
first block
<filter>
<filter-name>MyRegEx</filter-name>
... (11 Replies)
i am having some bash script which must use first sentence of the file. For example i have file which content is:
test 213
So I must use word test into my bash script, and put it into variable.
I am using a one variable named value
value=$(</home/rusher/test.txt)
so instead using test.txt... (1 Reply)