1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, i want to create a text file (init${x}.ora) and write information to it via a korn shell script. Is it right to do it as shown below (the file doesnt exist yet)? x=$1 file="$ORC/dbs/init${x}.ora" echo "info here..." >> $file will this file get created? (2 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Can someone guide me on how to write a small script to create a text file with non-sense text, i.e. lorem ipsum... I would like it with about 5 paragraphs but I have no idea on how to perfrom that. Any help will be much appreciated. Thanks, (5 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi I need to create multiple text files from onc text file on AIX. The data of text files is as below: ********************************************** ********************************************** DBVERIFY: Release 10.2.0.4.0 - Production on Tue Nov 10 13:45:42 2009 Copyright (c) 1982,... (11 Replies)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi all Below this is my script..I want to write the command to create a text file in my script below. If anyone know how to do...show me the result.I also want to do this script run automatically without type in terminal. Thanks. #!/usr/bin/sh... (6 Replies)

5. Red Hat

Can someone please tell me why this is not working? I have created numerous pdf's from text files by following these instructions and this time it is not working. Convert jpeg files to PDF under Linux | bitPrison.net convert /home/liveuser/Documents/hw7 /home/liveuser/Documents/hw7.pdf... (5 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello everyone, I work under Ubuntu 11.10 (c-shell) I need a script to create a new text file whose content is the text of another text files that are in the directory $DIRMAIL at this moment. I will show you an example: - On the one hand, there is a directory $DIRMAIL where there are... (1 Reply)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a directory with ~500 files that look like below. I need to copy each unique entry up until the second_ only once and put a .txt in place of the _. I am not quite sure how but have the below as a startThank you :). cp -u file1.txt "$(cat output.txt)" file1.txt ... (4 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Gents, I am trying to create a csv file using the file attached. I have a problem to get all information required because the rows are not continues. Here is my code till now. awk ' /"ffid"/{if(s){print s;s=$NF}else{s=$NF}} /"LineNumber"/{s=s $NF} /"PointNumber"/{s=s $NF}... (4 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, I have some large text files that look like, putrescine Mrv1583 01041713302D 6 5 0 0 0 0 999 V2000 2.0928 -0.2063 0.0000 N 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5.6650 0.2063 0.0000 N 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3.5217 ... (3 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello. The task : Using multiple commands like : gdisk -l $SOME_DISK >> $SOME_FILEI generate some text file. For readiness I must insert page break. When the program is finished I want to convert the final text file to a pdf file. When finished, I got two files : One text file and One pdf... (1 Reply)