What I am doing is searching for any 2 characters (the .. does this in sed) with the third character a . (need to do \. in sed so it knows I want the period), and deletes those three if they exist.
Now, your data is clean without the initial.
Note... as I think about this, the following might be better as it seaches for : then any character than period:
I need to read a file (a list) and assign the value to a variable (for each line), I'm looping until the end of the file. My problem is, I want to assign 2 separate variables from the list. The process I'm using is:
awk '{print $3}' file1 > file2
awk '{print $4}' file1 > file3
cat file2... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have a bash script that accepts some parameters as input, like:
sh script.sh first second third .....
I want to save these parameters as different variables, something like:
VAR1=first
VAR2=second
etc
I tried this, but apparently it didn't worked....... (16 Replies)
Hello
I have a text file with the next pattern
Name,Year,Grade1,Grade2,Grade3
Name,Year,Grade1,Grade2,Grade3
Name,Year,Grade1,Grade2,Grade3
I want to assign to external variables the grades using the awk method.
After i read the file line by line in order to get the grades i use this
... (2 Replies)
How can I read a string delimited on spaces and assign the fields to incremented variables.
For example:
Given $exts= txt dat mov
I want to read in $exts and have "txt" "dat" and "mov" assigned to incremented variables like $ext1, $ext2, etc. I would like to do this in a loop so that I can... (4 Replies)
Hi guys,
I'm currently writing a script for automating a FreeBSD ZFS setup (ZFSonRooT). I got stuck at one point for raidz(1,2 a.k.a raid5,6) and am in need of assistance.
This is what I need. example:
#!/bin/sh <- must stay sh
echo -n "hdd list: "
read hdd_list
echo -n "hdd label list:... (2 Replies)
hi
i have a requirement to input a string to a shell script and to split the string to multiple fields,
the string is copied from a row of three columns (name,age,address) in an excel sheet.
the three columns (from excel) are seperated with a tab when pasted in the command prompt, but when the ... (2 Replies)
Hi All,
I need a unix script to convert .csv files to .skv files (changing a comma delimited file to a semi colon delimited file). I am a unix newbie and so don't know where to start. The script will be scheduled using cron and needs to convert each .csv file in a particular folder to a .skv... (4 Replies)
Hi Gurus,
I have a file that contain inventory information from someones computers:
UserName
domain\user1
DNSHostName
machine1
Caption
Microsoft Windows 7 Professional
OSArchitecture
64 bits
SerialNumber
XXX
Name
HP EliteBook Revolve 810 G1
NumberOfProcessors
1
Name
Intel(R)... (2 Replies)
so i've been used to doing it this way:
SVAL=$(echo "7 3 2 38 3" | awk '{print $2}')
4VAL=$(echo "4:21:N:3" | awk -F":" '{print $4}')
I know there's a way to do it by putting the value in an array and assigning it that way. but i'm not sure how to do it efficiently. any ideas? i dont... (9 Replies)
i have a program that spits out a certain number of values. i dont know the number of values. they can be 4, 10, 7, 20, no idea.
but, i want to be able to assign each of the value returned by this program to a variable.
in the latest instance, the program gave the following 6 values:
4... (8 Replies)