1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi ! All, I have to delete first 2 characters from string. How its possible? Like string value is "2001". I required output as "01" Plaese help me. Nitin (4 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi In the shell scripted I'm trying to write! I would like to test the last character in a string. The string is a path/directory and I want to see if the last character is a '/'. The string (path/directory) is inputted by a user. If the '/' character isn't present then I want to be able to... (11 Replies)

3. Programming

HI Hi I have a character string which contains some special characters and I need it to display as a hex string. For example, the sample i/p string: ×¥ïA Å
gïÛý and the o/p should be : D7A5EF4100C5010067EFDBFD Any pointers or sample code pls. (5 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

hi all, if i do an: "echo $string |" what should be after the pipe to display ONLY the last char of the output? tia, DN2 (9 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

If I have a string defined as: MyString=abcde echo $MyString How can I loop through it character by character? I haven't been able to find a way to index the string so that I loop through it. shew01 (10 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

How to extract the last character of a string in bash? ---------- Post updated at 03:56 PM ---------- Previous update was at 03:55 PM ---------- Suppose "abcde" is a string. i want to extract the last character i.e. "e". (1 Reply)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

This it to pring 'i' character. #!/usr/bin/perl $str="This is perl"; print $str; Must i split the string to access a character from string? How can i print characters individually using a for loop? (2 Replies)

8. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

I am trying to load into the kernel a system-call dynamically (without restarting the kernel and compailing it) in an attempt to (once in kernel mode) write to user process's memory. (I know there is a way to do this with the ptrace interface but it is not an option.) I know the only way to... (1 Reply)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I want to check out a word in the text file and generate a clear report for me to see... The text file content: Content: ............ 20120608: 20120608: ............ 20120608: .......... 2012031201: , hime] End of the file My expected output is: Full TXT: manatsu TXT:... (3 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, Anyone can help using SED searches a character string for a specified delimiter character, and returns a leading or trailing space/blank. Text file : "1"|"ExternalClassDEA519CF5"|"Art1" "2"|"ExternalClass563EA516C"|"Art3" "3"|"ExternalClass305ED16B8"|"Art9" ... ... ... (2 Replies)