02-24-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by
aplaydoc
The fact that csh is very limited should not prevent a talented programmer from finding a solution.
A talented programmer would use a real programming language.
Quote:
Here's what I came up with: I made a perl script that takes any word and strips the back quote characters from it (using regular expression replacement).
You made my point: csh just cannot do some things; you have to use another language.
In the UNIX shell, your problem can be solved trivially without using any external command, not even cut.
Quote:
In my csh I just do this:
set SortedID = `somepath/RemoveBackQuote.pl $word`
instead of the failing:
set SortedID = `echo $word | cut -d '`' -f 2`
Works like a charm!
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messages
MESSAGES(3) libbash messages Library Manual MESSAGES(3)
NAME
messages -- libbash library that implements a set of functions to print standard status messages
SYNOPSIS
printOK [indent]
printFAIL [indent]
printNA [indent]
printATTN [indent]
printWAIT [indent]
DESCRIPTION
General
messages is a collection of functions to print standard status messages - those [ OK ] and [FAIL] messages you see during Linux boot process.
The function list:
printOK Prints a standard [ OK ] message (green)
printFAIL Prints a standard [FAIL] message (red)
printNA Prints a standard [ N/A] message (yellow)
printATTN Prints a standard [ATTN] message (yellow)
printWAIT Prints a standard [WAIT] message (yellow)
Detailed interface description follows.
indent
Column to move to before printing.
Default indent is calculated as TTY_WIDTH-10. If current tty width can not be determined (for example, in case of serial console), it
defaults to 80, so default indent is 80-10=10
FUNCTIONS DESCRIPTIONS
printOK [indent]
Prints a standard [ OK ] message (green)
printFAIL [indent]
Prints a standard [FAIL] message (red)
printNA [indent]
Prints a standard [ N/A] message (yellow)
printATTN [indent]
Prints a standard [ATTN] message (yellow)
printWAIT [indent]
Prints a standard [WAIT] message (yellow)
EXAMPLES
Run a program named MyProg, and report it's success or failure:
echo -n 'Running MyProg...'
printWAIT
if MyProg ; then
printOK
else
printFAIL
fi
AUTHORS
Hai Zaar <haizaar@haizaar.com>
Gil Ran <gil@ran4.net>
SEE ALSO
ldbash(1), libbash(1)
Linux Epoch Linux