1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi , i export the crontab in a file (i've no root right) and i would add lines from a file at a special place and rewrite the output in an another file. the special place is as this : 45 04 * * * /home/toto.sh > /dev/null 2>&1 # so i would search for toto.sh and insert the lines , the... (5 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, I need to search in file2 for class A : public B { and insert right after that the content of file1. I am a bit lost as to which tools (which bash functions, awk...). I should use. Thanks for some directions here. Regards (1 Reply)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

If I cat a file And want to go to the first instance of a particular value - what command would I use? And then from that point where I jumped to search for another value - but only search from that point forward not before the file? Thanks~ (2 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Is in Unix a tool that could do this: paste -d":" 'file1' 'file2' | special_save "file1" # so that file1 would be treated in a way that would prevent problems with race condition I know it normally doesn't work but is there any intelligent way how to avoid using temporary file? I know methods... (6 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all, I want to insert a string in a specified place of a very large file. I am giving an example of the task: I love football. Above is a sentence in a file and I want to insert a string "the" between love and football. It is not sure that where this particular line exists. It has to... (4 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

I need some help with adding lines to file and substitute a pattern. Ok I have a file: #cat names.txt name: John Doe stationed: 1 name: Michael Sweets stationed: 41 . . . And would like to change it to: name: John Doe employed permanently stationed: 1-office (7 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, I am using tcsh on AIX. I would like to write a script that does the following: 1. given an inode, how do I find exactly the name of the file? I know I could do this using ls -i | grep <inode> but it returns: <inode> <filename>. I need some string manipulation or something to... (1 Reply)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have to check a directory on Linux (via shell Script which I am trying to build) for about 20 different source files with file patterns and if the files are made available in the directory, I should place flag files for which my other ETL jobs are waiting on to kick off. If the source files are... (6 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, Daily I am getting the updated file. I have to search for this file in all directories and sub directories. If the file existed in a particular directory then move this updated file to that particular directory. If the file is not existed in any of the directories then place this... (4 Replies)

10. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

I have an array in an external file, "array.txt", which contains: char *testarray={"Zero", "One", "Two", "Three", "Four", "Five", "Six", "Seven", "Eight", "Nine"};I want to be able to add an element to this array, and have that element display, whenever I call it, without having to recompile... (29 Replies)