How to find that a given variable is a number or character?
e.g.
echo "Enter the number"
read var
If "$var" is a number then display "Number has been entered"
else display "Character has been entered".
Thanking you in advance (3 Replies)
I'm having a problem when the first line or first character of a file is blank. I need to get rid of both of them when they occur but don't want to delete the line. Does anyone have any suggestions? (7 Replies)
Currently my script works like this:
DATE_dd=5 # Assume this is user input. (User can enter 1, 2, 3, .. 10, 11, 12)
if ; then
DATE_D=" ${DATE_dd}"
file_name="${DATE_yyyy}${DATE_mm}0${DATE_dd}.csv"
else
DATE_D=${DATE_dd}
... (7 Replies)
how can i check whether variable contains only character from a-z or A-Z....if my variable contains any alpha numeric, numeric or any character with some special one i.e. *%&@! etcetera etcetera....then it should show me please enter only characters......
Let my variable
var1="abc77}|"
then... (9 Replies)
i am a newbie to shell script,so i want a kshell script in which i need to check for a particular character inside a file through conditional looping(like if ,case,while)and if that character exists ,then substitute a given character to that character.
consider a file test.txt,inside the file... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I need to find whether the first character in a line is a alphabet or a number. If its a number i should sort it numerically. If its a alphabet i should sort it based on the ASCII value.And if it is something other than alphabet or number then sort it based on ASCII value.
The code i used... (2 Replies)
Below is the abstract of the script which is working fine.
if ]
then
error_process "Invalid month format."
return 1
fi
I am doing validation for month and it errors if the value is > 12 or < 0. In addition, I want to add another condition to error if it... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have a variable and to it always alphanumeric value will be assigned.
If the value has any special characters in it then in the if statement it should exit like below
if (value has any speacial character)
then
exit
else
....
fi
can any one suggest how to acheive this? (4 Replies)
Hello,
I have a text file with n lines in the following format (9 column fields):
Example:
contig00012 149606 G C 49 68 60 18 c$cccccacccccccccc^c
I need to count the number of lower-case and upper-case occurences in column 9, respectively, of the... (3 Replies)
Hi,
Please see the below information.
1. Read files one by one and run the script.
2. Check if the filename is CHARTER OR NUMBER
3. Run the case statement.
I have files in the folder. i will get 300 files in a single day.
Abc_111111111111.csv
101010_kkk_bbbb.csv... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: onesuri
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glob
GLOB(7) BSD Miscellaneous Information Manual GLOB(7)NAME
glob -- shell-style pattern matching
DESCRIPTION
Globbing characters (wildcards) are special characters used to perform pattern matching of pathnames and command arguments in the csh(1),
ksh(1), and sh(1) shells as well as the C library functions fnmatch(3) and glob(3). A glob pattern is a word containing one or more unquoted
'?' or '*' characters, or ``[..]'' sequences.
Globs should not be confused with the more powerful regular expressions used by programs such as grep(1). While there is some overlap in the
special characters used in regular expressions and globs, their meaning is different.
The pattern elements have the following meaning:
? Matches any single character.
* Matches any sequence of zero or more characters.
[..] Matches any of the characters inside the brackets. Ranges of characters can be specified by separating two characters by a '-' (e.g.
``[a0-9]'' matches the letter 'a' or any digit). In order to represent itself, a '-' must either be quoted or the first or last
character in the character list. Similarly, a ']' must be quoted or the first character in the list if it is to represent itself
instead of the end of the list. Also, a '!' appearing at the start of the list has special meaning (see below), so to represent
itself it must be quoted or appear later in the list.
Within a bracket expression, the name of a character class enclosed in '[:' and ':]' stands for the list of all characters belonging
to that class. Supported character classes:
alnum cntrl lower space
alpha digit print upper
blank graph punct xdigit
These match characters using the macros specified in ctype(3). A character class may not be used as an endpoint of a range.
[!..] Like [..], except it matches any character not inside the brackets.
Matches the character following it verbatim. This is useful to quote the special characters '?', '*', '[', and '' such that they
lose their special meaning. For example, the pattern ``\*[x]?'' matches the string ``*[x]?''.
Note that when matching a pathname, the path separator '/', is not matched by a '?', or '*', character or by a ``[..]'' sequence. Thus,
/usr/*/*/X11 would match /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 and /usr/X11R6/include/X11 while /usr/*/X11 would not match either. Likewise, /usr/*/bin would
match /usr/local/bin but not /usr/bin.
SEE ALSO fnmatch(3), glob(3), re_format(7)HISTORY
In early versions of UNIX, the shell did not do pattern expansion itself. A dedicated program, /etc/glob, was used to perform the expansion
and pass the results to a command. In Version 7 AT&T UNIX, with the introduction of the Bourne shell, this functionality was incorporated
into the shell itself.
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