The ^M character is the carriage return. This is used alone in OS X or paired with a New Line character in Windows. Unix only uses the new line character, the code for which varies depending on how and where you use it. Another way to do it is to just type the line break within single quotes like this...
You can then redirect or otherwise process this as you would any other output.
does anyone know how to combine 2 lines? this is what im playing around with.
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#!/bin/sh
who | grep $1 > /dev/null
if
then
grep $1 /etc/passwd | cut -f 5, -d :
echo is logged on
exit 0
else
grep $1... (13 Replies)
I have three arrays which hold three elements each.
I have a fourth array which contains the names of those three arrays.
I'm having difficulty creating a nested loop that can loop through each array and echo their values.
script
#!/bin/ksh
# array of locations (usa, london, australia)... (1 Reply)
How to write multiple echo statements in unix?
echo "************************************************************************************************************";
echo This Script do the following functions
echo 1. Point 1
echo 2. Point 2
echo 3. Point 3
echo... (2 Replies)
Hi there,
I managed to write a script that display its progress like this:
~# cat myscript
echo -en ' Completed\015'
for (( i=0; i<=100; i++ )) do
echo -ne $i'%\015'
# perform some actions
sleep .01
done
echo
~# myscript
100% Completed
~#I can't show it on this post, but... (2 Replies)
Hi,
If I want my script to send a mail to multiple recipients I can do the following:
if
then
echo $err_string1 | mailx -s "UAT CPU ALERT" 1@email.com
echo $err_string1 | mailx -s "UAT CPU ALERT" 2@email.com
fi
Can this also be done something like:
... (1 Reply)
$total=500
echo "scale=2; $val1*100/$total" | bc
echo "scale=2; $val2*100*100/$total" | bc
echo "scale=2; $val3*100/$total" | bc
I want to make the above code to be accomplish in a single echo line.
For instance output:21.3, 44.2, 51.6
How to achieve that, some one please help, i just... (5 Replies)
Hi ,
I have a peculiar problem.
i have an if block like this
if ;
then
echo " todays date is " ${date} >> log_file
echo " file count is " $ count >> log_file
mv filename1 filename 2
else
echo "no files available ">> log_file
fi
the echo statement "no files available " is not... (2 Replies)
GM,
I have an issue at work, which requires a simple solution. But, after multiple attempts, I have not been able to hit on the code needed.
I am assuming that sed, awk or even perl could do what I need.
I have an application that adds extra blank page feeds, for multiple reports, when... (7 Replies)
I am writing a bash script that automatically generates a macro program.
I want to have an echo on multiple lines and getting an error
/home/chaos/instru-correct.sh: line 309: command line is: command not found
I am using
echo "# The general synopsis of the $mfl" \
... (2 Replies)