How...
can I read input by a user character by cahracter. And assign each character from the string to a variable?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thank you! (1 Reply)
Hi, guys. I have one question:
I need to search for a string in a file, and then extract another string from the file and assign it to a variable.
For example:
the contents of the file (group) is below:
...
ftp:x:23:
mail:x:34
...
testing:x:2001
sales:x:2002
development:x:2003
...... (6 Replies)
Hi,
i call my shell like:
my_shell "my project name"
my script:
#!/bin/bash -vx
projectname=$1
sed s/'PROJECT_NAME ='/'PROJECT_NAME = '$projectname/ <test_config_doxy >temp
cp temp test_config_doxy
the following error occurres:
sed s/'PROJECT_NAME ... (2 Replies)
Hi ,
I have below file with 13 columns. I need 2-13 columns seperated by comma and I want to append each row with a string "INSERT INTO xxx" in the begining as 1st column and then a variable "$node" and then $2,$3,$4,$5,$6,$7,$8,$9,$10,$11,$12,$13 and at the end another string " ; COMMIT;"
... (4 Replies)
Hi,
i have one file which has list of data like this
xemp 42
yeet 87
wax 223
dyne 442
i want to read each of in for loop from the script
can you give me syntax
Use code tags, ty. (2 Replies)
Hi,
I'm using bash and brand new to shell script. I would like to do the following.
I have a string which is "UPDATE=1.0". I would like to read the value "1.0" alone in a variable. i.e the things afer "=" How do I do that?
Thanks, (1 Reply)
Hi ,
I want to read below output, lets called it output1.txt and each string for every line will be declare as a variables.
This is the input file
196 server_a server_unix_2 FW
196 server_b server_win_1 CD
196 server_c server_win_2 CD
196 server_bd ... (2 Replies)
Can someone tell me how I can do this?
e.g:
a=$(echo -e wert trewt ertert ertert ertert erttert
erterte
rterter
tertertert
ert)
How do i replace the STRING with $a?
I try this:
sed -i 's/STRING/'"$a"'/g' filename.ext
but this don' t work (2 Replies)
I would like to read a variable name from file and I would like to use this...
e.g.
VARIABLE1=XXXXXX
File.txt
$VARIABLE1
Shell
for STRING in `cat File.txt`
echo $STRING
done
I would like the print XXXXXX.
It's possible????:confused:
Thanks :) (7 Replies)
Hi all, the value in the following file is just an example. It could be a different value/network addresses.
Here is my example of initial output in a file name net.txt
Initial Output, net.txt
The goal is to produce the following format which is to convert from CIDR to Netmask... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: type8code0
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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)