04-07-2010
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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
How to remove a box like special character which appears at the end of a string/line/record. I have no clue what this box like special character is. It is transparent square like box. This appears in a .DAT file at the end of header.
I'm to compare a value in header with a parameter.... (16 Replies)
Discussion started by: Qwerty123
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
hi
I have a list of words in a text file. these words are appended by "." at their end. They look something like this.
word1.
word2.
word3.
word4.
word5.
I need to remove the last character "." from all the words. The output must look something like this.
word1
word2
word3... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: ss3944
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
The last character is a comma ,
I have tried the following:
sed -e 's/\,$//' filename-to-read
however - there are still commas at the end of each line...:confused: (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: learning
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello!
Please bare with me, I'm a total newbie to scripting. Here's the sudo code of what I'm trying to do:
Get file name
Does file exist?
If true
get length of file name
get network id (this will be the last 3 numbers of the file name)
loop x 2
If... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: KatieV
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi there,
i need some help to remove all occurrences of a certain character at the beginning of a string.
Example: my string is 00102030 and i want to remove all zeros from beginning of string so the result is 102030 (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: gigagigosu
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
How can i remove the first and last character of strings like below:
"^^^613*"
"admt130"
"^^^613*"
"123456"
"adg8484"
"DQitYV09dh1C"
Means i wanna remove the quotes("").
Please help (17 Replies)
Discussion started by: proactiveaditya
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
In bash, how can one remove the last character of a string? In perl, the chop function would remove the last character. However, I do not know how to do the same job in bash.
Many thanks in advance. (12 Replies)
Discussion started by: LessNux
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am outputting a line like this
print $2 "/" $4The last character though is a ":" and I want to remove it. Is there any neat way to remove it? Or am I forced to do something like this:
print $2 "/" substr($4, 1, length($4) - 1)Thanks. (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: benalt
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am reading lines from a file that contain a number sign (#) before a three or four digit number:
#1043
#677
I can remove the '#' and get just the number. However, I then want to assign that number to a variable and use it as part of a path further on in my program:
/mydir/10/1043 for... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: KathyB148
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10. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
hello !
I have to remove string between a number and set of characters. For example,
35818 -stress - - -stress - - - - - - DB-3754
44412 caul kid notify DB-3747
54432 roberto -, notify DB-3725
55522 aws _ _int _ _classified 2_a _a 2_m _m 2_classified 2_search... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: ManoharMa
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setenv(3C) setenv(3C)
NAME
setenv(), unsetenv() - add, update or remove an environment variable
SYNOPSIS
Parameters
envname Points to a string containing the name of an environment variable to be added or altered. This should not be a NULL
pointer or null string, and the string should not contain an equal character.
envval Points to a string containing the value to be set for the variable envname.
overwrite Indicates whether to overwrite the value of envname variable or not, if it already exists. Expected values are non-zero
and zero. If the environment variable does not exist in the environment, then the value of this variable is ignored.
DESCRIPTION
and functions update the environment of the calling process.
If envname does not exist, the function ignores the value of overwrite and adds the variable envname to the environment with the value
envval. If envname exists and overwrite is non-zero, then the variable envname is updated with the new value envval. If envname exists
and overwrite is zero, then the variable is not updated, and the function is considered to have completed successfully.
The function deletes the variable envname from the environment, if it exists. If the envname variable does not exist in the current envi-
ronment, the environment is unchanged, and the function is considered to have completed successfully.
If the application modifies environ or the pointers to which it points, the behavior of and is undefined.
EXTERNAL INFLUENCES
Locale
The category determines the interpretation of characters in string as single- and/or multi-byte characters.
International Code Set Support
Single- and multi-byte character code sets are supported.
RETURN VALUE
The and functions return zero on success; otherwise they return and set to indicate the error.
ERRORS
If the function fails, is set to one of the following values:
Sufficient memory is not available to add a variable or its value to
the environment.
The envname argument is a null pointer, points to an empty string, or points to a string containing an equal character.
If the function fails, is set to the following value:
The envname argument is a null pointer, points to an empty string, or points to a string containing an equal character.
EXAMPLES
The following code adds a new environment variable to the current environment.
The following code updates the variable
The following code removes the variable from the current environment.
WARNINGS
The and functions manipulate the environment pointed to by environ, and can be used in conjunction with However, envp (the third argument
to main) is not changed.
The uses to enlarge the environment (see malloc(3C)).
After the or function is called, environment variables may not be in alphabetical order.
AUTHOR
and were developed by HP.
SEE ALSO
exec(2), getenv(3C), malloc(3C), putenv(3C), environ(5), thread_safety(5).
STANDARDS CONFORMANCE
setenv(3C)