hi...
i need to open a file and read it line by line, and capture that it in to some variable and manipulate...
i need to get a line in to a variable
please help :confused: (1 Reply)
Hello,
I have a variable Diskfree and I would like to read it line by line to extract information, I don't know how to get the line
Diskfree=`df -h | grep dev`
I want to make a loop to get each value of this line, but I don't know how to get the line. I've seen sample with standard... (4 Replies)
Hi,
Here is the output of lpstat. I would like to read value of Queue which is(abxxxxb1)and status that is DOWN in first line. i dont care what is in second line. any one can help me.thanks
Queue Dev Status Job Files User PP % Blks Cp Rnk
------- ----- ---------... (5 Replies)
So, I want to read line-by-line a text file with unknown number of files....
So:
a=1
b=1
while ; do
b=`sed -n '$ap' test`
a=`expr $a + 1`
$here do something with b etc
done
the problem is that sed does not seem to recognise the $a, even when trying
sed -n ' $a p'
So, I cannot read... (3 Replies)
So, the beginning of my script will cat & grep a file with the output directed to a new file. The data I have in this file needs to be parsed, read and evaluated.
Basically, I need to identify the latest date/time stamp and then calculate whether or not it is within 15 minutes of the current... (1 Reply)
I have a file which has data in 8 lines:
10
34
6
1
4
46
67
31
I am trying to read each value into each different variable so that I use these variables in preparing my report.
Another option is to dynamically print each line values in the report like below:
users with privA:... (2 Replies)
Hi All,
I have been using a program on windows called AutoKey.
My environment at work is Linux and I have been experimenting with expect. Very powerful. I can move my AutoKey scripts to Linux using Expect once I am educated on how to read from a file using Expect.
My application would be... (1 Reply)
Hi All,
Below is a sample command that I can run without any problem in the command line.
Command Line
dtToday=`date +%Y%m%d`; ls -ltr ./filename_${dtToday}.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 monuser oinstall 0 Jan 18 11:02 ./filename_20130118.txt
But once I put that command line in file (list.txt) and... (3 Replies)
I need some help. I would like to read in a text file.
Take a variable such as ROW-D-01, compare it to what's in one line in the text file such as PROD/VM/ROW-D-01 and only input PROD/VM into a variable without the /ROW-D-01.
Is this possible? any help is appreciated. (2 Replies)
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LESSECHO(1) General Commands Manual LESSECHO(1)NAME
lessecho - expand metacharacters
SYNOPSIS
lessecho [-ox] [-cx] [-pn] [-dn] [-mx] [-nn] [-ex] [-a] file ...
DESCRIPTION
lessecho is a program that simply echos its arguments on standard output. But any argument containing spaces is enclosed in quotes.
OPTIONS
A summary of options is included below.
-ox Specifies "x" to be the open quote character.
-cx Specifies "x" to be the close quote character.
-pn Specifies "n" to be the open quote character, as an integer.
-dn Specifies "n" to be the close quote character, as an integer.
-mx Specifies "x" to be a metachar.
-nn Specifies "n" to be a metachar, as an integer.
-ex Specifies "x" to be the escape char for metachars.
-fn Specifies "n" to be the escape char for metachars, as an integer.
-a Specifies that all arguments are to be quoted. The default is that only arguments containing spaces are quoted.
SEE ALSO less(1)AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Thomas Schoepf <schoepf@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
Send bug reports or comments to bug-less@gnu.org.
Version 444: 09 Jun 2011 LESSECHO(1)