1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi! I've the following script code with an input parameter: sed 's/oldstring/$1/g' myfile > newfile (I launch it with comman line: $ MyShell newstring) Problem: the substituion doesn't work (oldstring becomes $1, instead of newstring). How could I solve this situation? Thanks, ... (2 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

When I run the script I pass in 2 expressions (ex. replace.ksh new old) I want the script to go line by line for a given file in a given directory and replace the word new with old. Of course in my line where I have the awk statement it is replacing the 2nd word with 1st instead of new with... (3 Replies)

3. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hey ppl, Could u tell me how to replace such a string xyz->x with XYZ(x), where x can be any variable accessible by pointer to structure, xyz in an entire file? (1 Reply)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hey ppl, Could u tell me how to replace such a string xyz->x with XYZ(x), where x can be any variable accessible by pointer to structure, xyz in an entire file? (3 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I have a properties file (myprop.properties) which contains some values: @oneValue@==tcp://localhost:1234 @twoValue@==tcp://localhost:4563 @threeValue@==tcp://localhost7895 I have a xml file (myXmlFile.xml)which contains some tokens: <application name="aTest"> <NameValuePair> ... (3 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I have a template file and want to replace 3 parameters to the values that I want. these values are in a parameter file. Any idea how to do this in perl? the parameter file looks like: host_name = jupiter PORT = 1562 IPADDRESS = 10.1.34.10 the template file has lots of entry.... (1 Reply)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

I use otool on OS X to figure out the shared libraries that a binary uses. I run this command: otool -L /Applications/Vidnik\ 0.13.0/Vidnik.app/Contents/MacOS/Vidnik And it returns an output similar to this: /Applications/Vidnik 0.13.0/Vidnik.app/Contents/MacOS/Vidnik:... (10 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I have a string like this user can specify different query sets that is why "or" is mentioned: $string="]("; or $string="](("; or $string="]((("; or $string="]((((("; (1 Reply)

9. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hello, I am trying to grep string with square brackets. for example I want to grep the below string in log.txt file. This is a test thanks in advance. (2 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello I'm writing a handler for ffmpeg, and having troubles to catch some exceptions that may occour with certain files. In order to parse for video & subtitle maps, i've had to make the raw data easier to handle, until now this worked well, but basicly i've just been lucky... The input... (1 Reply)