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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Can anyone explain what this command is doing? Post 302264805 by vidyadhar85 on Thursday 4th of December 2008 11:25:22 PM
Old 12-05-2008
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Originally Posted by elbombillo
It would be nice to see what information is being processed, but here goes a shot in the dark. Anyone else feel free to correct me....

Looks like this is trying to extract the variable $number from the $phonefile. Then it copies the results to "f".
The following two functions are disabled because the line start with #. But it would try to copy the results of "f" and make that the $phonefile and finally remove the temporary "f" directory.
"fi" just ends the if loop.
its not extracting the string specified by the variable its deleteing the string from the file specified by the phonefile variable and writing the o/p to another file
 

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NWBPSET(1)							      nwbpset								NWBPSET(1)

NAME
nwbpset - Create a bindery property or set its value SYNOPSIS
nwbpset [ -h ] [ -S server ] [ -U user name ] [ -P password | -n ] [ -C ] DESCRIPTION
nwbpset Reads a property specification from the standard input and creates and sets the corresponding property. The format is determined by the output of 'nwbpvalues -c'. nwbpset will hopefully become an important part of the bindery management suite of ncpfs, together with As another example, look at the following command line: nwbpvalues -t 1 -o supervisor -p user_defaults -c | sed '2s/.*/ME/'| sed '3s/.*/LOGIN_CONTROL/'| nwbpset With this command, the property user_defaults of the user object 'supervisor' is copied into the property login_control of the user object 'me'. nwbpvalues -t 1 -o me -p login_control -c | sed '9s/.*/ff/'| nwbpset This command disables the user object me. Feel free to contribute other examples! nwbpset looks up the file $HOME/.nwclient to find a file server, a user name and possibly a password. See nwclient(5) for more information. Please note that the access permissions of $HOME/.nwclient MUST be 600 for security reasons. OPTIONS
-h -h is used to print out a short help text. -S server server is the name of the server you want to use. -U user user is the user name to use for login. -P password password is the password to use for login. If neither -n nor -P are given, and the user has no open connection to the server, nwbpset prompts for a password. -n -n should be given if no password is required for the login. -C By default, passwords are converted to uppercase before they are sent to the server, because most servers require this. You can turn off this conversion by -C. AUTHORS
nwbpset was written by Volker Lendecke. See the Changes file of ncpfs for other contributors. nwbpset 8/7/1996 NWBPSET(1)
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