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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shift(1) User Commands shift(1)
NAME
shift - shell built-in function to traverse either a shell's argument list or a list of field-separated words
SYNOPSIS
sh
shift [n]
csh
shift [variable]
ksh
* shift [n]
DESCRIPTION
sh
The positional parameters from $n+1 ... are renamed $1 ... . If n is not given, it is assumed to be 1.
csh
The components of argv, or variable, if supplied, are shifted to the left, discarding the first component. It is an error for the variable
not to be set or to have a null value.
ksh
The positional parameters from $n+1 $n+1 ... are renamed $1 ..., default n is 1. The parameter n can be any arithmetic expression that
evaluates to a non-negative number less than or equal to $#.
On this man page, ksh(1) commands that are preceded by one or two * (asterisks) are treated specially in the following ways:
1. Variable assignment lists preceding the command remain in effect when the command completes.
2. I/O redirections are processed after variable assignments.
3. Errors cause a script that contains them to abort.
4. Words, following a command preceded by ** that are in the format of a variable assignment, are expanded with the same rules as a vari-
able assignment. This means that tilde substitution is performed after the = sign and word splitting and file name generation are not
performed.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
csh(1), ksh(1), sh(1), attributes(5)
SunOS 5.10 15 Apr 1994 shift(1)