07-30-2008
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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
what is the meaning of this
echo $description | wc -m` -ne "1" (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: debasis.mishra
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2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Is there a way to get echo to make newlines without using any type of quotes? I've done a lot of searches and went into my Linux book to no avail. I'm trying to write five separate lines to a file. I can get echo to accept all five lines like this
echo \
\this is line 1\
\this is line 2\ >... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: Trekker182
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
So in my shell i execute:
{ while true; do echo string; sleep 1; done } | read line This waits one second and returns.
But
{ while true; do /bin/echo string; sleep 1; done } | read line continues to run, and doesn't stop until i kill it explicitly.
I have tried this in bash as well as zsh,... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: ulidtko
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
can someone tell me what does this code do?
echo !. (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: ryandegreat25
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5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Bit of a weird one i suppose, i want to use an echo inside an echo... For example...
i have a script that i want to use to take users input and create another script. Inside this script it creates it also needs to use echos...
echo "echo "hello"" >$file
echo "echo "goodbye"" >$file
... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: mokachoka
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi Guys,
I need to print a value in the same line , But when we use the echo instead the loops (while), the value goes to the next line..
Can you help me in this..
Thanks For your help in advance. (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: mac4rfree
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
echo `echo ` doesn't echoes anything. And it's logic. But
echo `echo `echo ` ` does echoes "echo". What's the logic of it? the `echo `echo ` inside of the whole (first) echo, echoes nothing, so the first echo have to echo nothing but echoes "echo"
(too much echoing :P):o (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: hakermania
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
I came across and unexpected behavior with redirections in tcsh. I know, csh is not best for redirections, but I'd like to understand what is happening here.
I have following script (called out_to_streams.csh):
#!/bin/tcsh -f
echo Redirected to STDOUT > /dev/stdout
echo Redirected to... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: marcink
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hello,
I'm working with ksh.
I was working with the echo command
That is
echo "Today is $date"
which would show for example
Toady is 7/12/12
which was fine
however, know I only recieve the first part of the echo without the date.
Today is
Could I have edited the echo... (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: JD_Sal
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi guys,
Been messing around with shell programming for a couple of days and I found something that was pretty odd in the behavior of the echo command. Below is an example-:
When I type the following in my /home directory from my lxterminal in Debian-:
echo "`ls -l`"
I get the... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: sreyan32
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
bti-shrink-urls
BTI-SHRINK-URLS(1) bti-shrink-urls BTI-SHRINK-URLS(1)
NAME
bti-shrink-urls - convert URLs to a shorter form using a web service
SYNOPSIS
bti [--escaped] [--help] [URL]
DESCRIPTION
bti-shrink-urls converts URLs to a shorter form using a web service.
Currently http://2tu.us/ (default) and http://bit.ly / http://j.mp are supported.
OPTIONS
--escaped
Don't escape special characters in the URL any more, they are already percent encoded.
--help
Print help text.
URL
Specify the URL to be converted. If no URL is given bti-shrink-urls waits for input on stdin.
CONFIGURATION
bti-shrink-urls is configured by setting some values in ~/.bti:
shrink_host
Possible values: 2tu.us (default), bit.ly, j.mp
shrink_bitly_login
API login for bit.ly, j.mp, required if shrink_host is set to bit.ly or j.mp. See
https://code.google.com/p/bitly-api/wiki/ApiDocumentation
shrink_bitly_key
API key for bit.ly, j.mp, required if shrink_host is set to bit.ly or j.mp. See
https://code.google.com/p/bitly-api/wiki/ApiDocumentation
AUTHOR
Written by Bart Trojanowski bart@jukie.net.
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright (C) 2009 Bart Trojanowski bart@jukie.net.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation version 2 of the License.
bti-shrink-urls March 2009 BTI-SHRINK-URLS(1)