Hi,
I am new stuff to learn substr() function through awk for writing the Korn shell script.
Is there a way to copy from XXXX1234.ABCDEF to XXX1234 file names without changing both data files?
I appreciate your time to response this email.
Thanks,
Steve (4 Replies)
What is the difference between test expr VS .
For example :
if test 5 -eq 6
echo "Wrong"
and
if
echo "Wrong"
bot will give the same output as Wrong.
Now, what is the difference between these two? though they are producing the same result why we need two?
Any answer will be... (2 Replies)
hi
iam trying to extract a certain portion of the string whose value is stored below,but am getting syntax eror.The command is shown below
for file in GMG_BASEL2*.txt
do
m1= cat reporting_date.txt
year= expr substr $m1 1 2
echo $year
done
m1 has date 10/31/2009
but this vale... (6 Replies)
Hi all,
i am facing the error "expr: non-numeric argument" when i use the expr command.
Following is the expression which i want to execute
HR=$(echo `date +%H`)
MIN=$(echo `date +%M`)
TOT_MIN=`expr "$HR" \* 60+$MIN` | bc
echo $TOT_MIN
Here I am being reported with the error expr:... (6 Replies)
Can someone tell me how to change the first column in a very large 17k line file from a random 10 digit numeric value to a non numeric value. The format of lines in the file is:
1702938475,SNU022,201004
the first 10 numbers always begin with 170 (6 Replies)
Hi all,
I want to get each line of a data file from position 464 plus 8 characters. I tried in two different ways, and the results were different. I'd like to know why.
First method, using awk:
awk '{print substr($0,464,8)}' CONCIL_VUELTA_ALF_100112_0801.okSecond method, using scripting:... (5 Replies)
Hi All,
I'm writing a shell script in KSH, where I want to store the filename, total record count and actual record count of all the source files. The source files reside in 4 different sub-folders under the same root folder.
Below is code:
#!/usr/bin/ksh... (6 Replies)
Hi,
I tried to look up the issue i'm experiencing, but i'm confused what's wrong with my script.
After executing the script I'm getting the following error
expr: non-numeric argument
syntax error on line 1, teletype
After some research, it seems that the problem relates to bc.
I have... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: nms
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LEARN ABOUT REDHAT
expr
EXPR(1) FSF EXPR(1)NAME
expr - evaluate expressions
SYNOPSIS
expr EXPRESSION
expr OPTION
DESCRIPTION --help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
Print the value of EXPRESSION to standard output. A blank line below separates increasing precedence groups. EXPRESSION may be:
ARG1 | ARG2
ARG1 if it is neither null nor 0, otherwise ARG2
ARG1 & ARG2
ARG1 if neither argument is null or 0, otherwise 0
ARG1 < ARG2
ARG1 is less than ARG2
ARG1 <= ARG2
ARG1 is less than or equal to ARG2
ARG1 = ARG2
ARG1 is equal to ARG2
ARG1 != ARG2
ARG1 is unequal to ARG2
ARG1 >= ARG2
ARG1 is greater than or equal to ARG2
ARG1 > ARG2
ARG1 is greater than ARG2
ARG1 + ARG2
arithmetic sum of ARG1 and ARG2
ARG1 - ARG2
arithmetic difference of ARG1 and ARG2
ARG1 * ARG2
arithmetic product of ARG1 and ARG2
ARG1 / ARG2
arithmetic quotient of ARG1 divided by ARG2
ARG1 % ARG2
arithmetic remainder of ARG1 divided by ARG2
STRING : REGEXP
anchored pattern match of REGEXP in STRING
match STRING REGEXP
same as STRING : REGEXP
substr STRING POS LENGTH
substring of STRING, POS counted from 1
index STRING CHARS
index in STRING where any CHARS is found, or 0
length STRING
length of STRING
+ TOKEN
interpret TOKEN as a string, even if it is a
keyword like `match' or an operator like `/'
( EXPRESSION )
value of EXPRESSION
Beware that many operators need to be escaped or quoted for shells. Comparisons are arithmetic if both ARGs are numbers, else lexicograph-
ical. Pattern matches return the string matched between ( and ) or null; if ( and ) are not used, they return the number of characters
matched or 0.
AUTHOR
Written by Mike Parker.
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 expr is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and expr programs are properly installed at your site, the
command
info expr
should give you access to the complete manual.
GNU coreutils 4.5.3 February 2003 EXPR(1)