Hi,
I have a script that at one point prints to a file as follows:
printf -- $2 > ~/.mydir/$1
The idea is to print to a hidden directory .mydir in my home directory. I've already sanitized the inputs and $1 is in the format path1/path2/filename and $2 is some user input.
When I run this... (2 Replies)
Dear Friends, we have one ST 6140 storage in our data center.The structure is like that, virtual disk vdisk(RAID-5) was created using 7 hard disks and the vdisk is divided in to 4 volumes each have 1TB of size.These 4 volumes are mapped to solaris 9 server and created RAID 0 using SVM and is... (1 Reply)
Say you have this numeric variable that can be set by the user but you never want it to leave a certain range when it gets printed. How could you use parameter expansion such that it will never expand outside of that boundary? Thanks
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I have a bunch of files which I need to transfer to another location... and some of these I need to skip.
For e.g. let us say the files are:
cust_abc.dat
cust_xyz.dat
cust_def.dat
and I only want to move the first two.
I want to do something like:
cp cust_.dat <target>
... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I'm trying to figure out whether some files exist. Locations of those file are stored in a plain text file called temp.txt in this way:
All environment variables ($LIB_HOME and $ORACLE_HOME) have been set using export command.
Then I do:
while read line; do ] && echo "OK ==> $line" ||... (6 Replies)
Hello.
I cannot write a command without using eval.
Any help is welcome
Note 1 : What does the function SOMETHING has no importance.
Note 2 : What does the command find has no importance.
It is an expansion variable problem : where to put or or or anythings else
What works (FILTRE_1... (8 Replies)
(Using Bash 4.4)
When I write something like dir="~/dox"
ls $dir then I get the message that the directory '~/docs' does not exist. I understand that the tilde is not expanded at the time of the above assignment because of the quotes. But why is it not expanded at the time when the ls command is... (2 Replies)
Hello All,
Could you please do help me here as I would like to perform parameter expansion in shell over a parameter expansion.
Let's say I have following variable.
path="/var/talend/nat/cdc"
Now to get only nat I could do following.
path1="${path%/*}"
path1="${path1##*/}"
Here... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: RavinderSingh13
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split
SPLIT(1) FSF SPLIT(1)NAME
split - split a file into pieces
SYNOPSIS
split [OPTION] [INPUT [PREFIX]]
DESCRIPTION
Output fixed-size pieces of INPUT to PREFIXaa, PREFIXab, ...; default PREFIX is `x'. With no INPUT, or when INPUT is -, read standard
input.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
-a, --suffix-length=N
use suffixes of length N (default 2)
-b, --bytes=SIZE
put SIZE bytes per output file
-C, --line-bytes=SIZE
put at most SIZE bytes of lines per output file
-l, --lines=NUMBER
put NUMBER lines per output file
--verbose
print a diagnostic to standard error just before each output file is opened
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
SIZE may have a multiplier suffix: b for 512, k for 1K, m for 1 Meg.
AUTHOR
Written by Torbjorn Granlund and Richard M. Stallman.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICU-
LAR PURPOSE.
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for split is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and split programs are properly installed at your site,
the command
info split
should give you access to the complete manual.
split (coreutils) 4.5.3 February 2003 SPLIT(1)