Hi,
I am new to UNIX Scripting. I have been trying to use the CUT command to retrieve part of the header from a file and assign it to a variable. I have tried searching a lot, but I am still unsuccessful.
Sample Header: HJAN BALANCE 20090616
I need to retrieve the date here, which always... (10 Replies)
greetings all,
I am have a heck of a time trying to accomplish a very simple thing. I have an array of "shortname<spaces>id" created from a dscl output. I want to assign shortname=word1 and id=word2. I have tried
shortname=$(${textArray} | awk '{print $1}') - and get 'awk : cannot open... (3 Replies)
I'm running a bash script query and assigning the output to a variable like this:
exists=`mysql -u $USER_NAME --password=$PASSWORD -D "somedb" \
-e "SELECT * FROM somedb.sometable WHERE field1 ='$a' \
AND field2 ='$b' LIMIT 0 , 30";`
which returns something like:
echo... (2 Replies)
Hi ,I am trying to assign string to variable ,but it doesn't work
Also could you show me different ways to use grep,(I am trying to get the first,second and first column form file,and I am counting the chars)
let name=`grep "$id" product | cut -c6-20` (25 Replies)
Hi, wondering if it's been asked before but didn't find matches from google. Basically I have this line:
myvar=$(echo -e "a\tb")
Now somehow the '\t' from the echo output gets replaced with white space and then stored in $myvar.
It creates a problem for me later to use tab as delimiter to do... (2 Replies)
Hello All,
Hope you're doing well !
I am trying below command to be passed in a shell script, header_date_14 is a variable and $1 is the name of a file I intend to pass as a command line argument, however command line argument is not being accepted.
header_date_14=$(m_dump... (8 Replies)
In the else of the main if condition .
else
set lnk = $(readlink -f <path> | cut -d '/' -f7)
echo "$lnk"
if ]
When I run the above on command line , the execution seems to be fine and I get the desired output. But when I try to assign it to a variable within a loop... (12 Replies)
Hi,
I have the script below. When i assign SSH_COMMAND to "ssh -o ConnectTimeout=2 ${SERVER} ${AS_SUDO} ${COMMANDS}" and then execute it as ${SSH_COMMAND} I get the following error:
ssh: Could not resolve hostname sudo: Name or service not known
ssh: Could not resolve hostname sudo: Name or... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I am attempting to assign the output of the following command, to two bash variables, var1 and var2 using "read," but it doesn't seem to be working.
# openstack hypervisor stats show | awk -F'|' 'NR==14{print $2,$3}'
vcpus 92
# echo $?
0
# openstack hypervisor... (4 Replies)
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surfraw-update-path
SURFRAW-UPDATE-PATH(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation SURFRAW-UPDATE-PATH(1)NAME
surfraw-update-path - updates PATH in shell config files
SYNOPSIS
surfraw-update-path [-add] [-remove] [-check] [-sys] [-all] [-help] [-shell=SHELL]
DESCRIPTION
surfraw-update-path adds the surfraw elvi directory (/usr/lib/surfraw) to your PATH in your shell's config file.
Currently it supports bash, sh, csh, tcsh, ash, dash, ksh, pdksh, zsh, rc, and es
Don't forget to login again or source your login files for it to take effect.
OPTIONS -check
Checks to see if the surfraw config code is present. This is the default.
-add
Adds the surfraw config code.
-remove
Removes the surfraw config code
-sys
Updates the system-wide shell config instead of the user. Must be done as root.
-shell=SHELL
Selects the shell to configure. Defaults to the value of the $SHELL environment variable.
Currently supported shells are:
sh, ash, bash, dash, csh, tcsh, ksh, pdksh, zsh, rc, and es.
-all
Attempts to configure the startup files for all known shells
-help
Gives a usage message
RETURN VALUE -check returns 0 if the surfraw code is present in the file, 1 if it is not found, or 2 on error.
All other options return 0 on success, or 2 on error.
ENVIRONMENT
SHELL
Used to determine which shell to configure, if -shell is not given.
HOME
Used to find users config files.
ENV Used by posix-compliant shells to specify a startup rc file.
ZDOTDIR
Used to find user config files for zsh. If not set, defaults to HOME.
SEE ALSO surfraw(1), sh(1), ash(1), bash(1), dash(1), csh(1), tcsh(1), ksh(1), pdksh(1), zsh(1), rc(1), es(1)AUTHOR
Ian Beckwith <ianb@erislabs.net>
perl v5.12.4 2011-07-12 SURFRAW-UPDATE-PATH(1)