1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, i want to use grep to extract users with at least 4 characters in their username, i've tried who | grep \{4,\} but thats not working!!!!!! Thanks (4 Replies)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

i want to extract few characters from a file based on a special character like || how to do it suggestions please (4 Replies)

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

need some advice on the following situation. I have a DB2 table which has a varchar Column. This varchar column can have special characters like ©, ®, ™ . When I extract from this table to a sequential file for this varchar column I am only able to get © and ® . To Get the ™... (1 Reply)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

I'm extremely new to scripting and linux in general, so please bear with me. The class I'm taking gives virtually no instruction at all, and so I'm trying to learn everything off the web. Anyway, I'm trying to extract characters that follow after a specific pattern ( '<B><FONT FACE="Arial">' ) but... (3 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I have one file, say file 1, that has data like below where 19900107 is the date, 19900107 12 144 129 0.7380047 19900108 12 168 129 0.3149017 19900109 12 192 129 3.2766666E-02 ... (3 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a txt file of the following format >ab_ qwerty >rt_ hfjkil >Ty2 hglashglkasghkf; >P2 aklhfklflkkgfgkfl >ui_ vnllkdskkkffkfkkf >we32 vksksjksj;lslsf'sk's's .... ..... I want to split this big file based on the header (>) (5 Replies)

7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I am trying to compare the data in lines 3 & 5 to see if they match up to the '-S570' (see first code set, all proprietary information has been removed from code set) spawn telnet Trying ... Connected to CA-LOS1234-ASE-S570.cl . Escape character is '^]'. CA-LOS1234-ASE-S570 Username: ... (1 Reply)

8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I want to extract the string TC from the string TC10, the string can have any characters out of . I used the following code but didnt get the right output. Please guide nuc=match(val,/*/) seq=substr(val,RSTART,RLENGTH) ---------- Post updated at 09:40 PM ---------- Previous update was... (0 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

eg: ./myProgram.sh filename.cpp I want to remove the :".cpp" extension from the filename.cpp expected output: filename (3 Replies)

10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Im trying compare values between files and if they match I want to extract some characters in between those values for many files. They are in two directories and have the name filename but one ends in .enr. They look like this. cat bat.1.enr name,start,end bat.1,231, 234 and another... (5 Replies)