I am a newbie to unix. I have a current script that reads a directory for excel files and renames the files. There is a problem now because some of the files have spaces. If I put quotes on the file, it will work but I dont know how to read all the files with quotes.
Hi
The following command read a string from the keyboard & echo it back.
$ read S;echo "$S"
ABCD
ABCD
As you see, the input has space. while it echo back the spaces are removed. Is there a way to keep the input intact and not removing any spaces? Also, the number of spaces may vary.
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I am accessing two files. I am using read command to read from the files.
For the first file, I need read the fields delimited by spaces, and for the other file, I need to read the whole line as a single field including the spaces.
When I used read command for the second file, the spaces... (4 Replies)
Hi ,
I use read command to get the input text, When i try to get the line starting with spaces or ending with spaces it automatically truncates the spaces and displays the remaining content.
Code i tried (UserInput.sh):
#!/bin/bash
echo -n "Enter some text > "
read text
echo "You... (3 Replies)
Hi,
Could someone has any suggestions on this? When read a line from a file, I need to check the first char in the line, it could be a space or any char. But the leading spaces are removed by read.
Thanks. (2 Replies)
Dears,
I developed a shell script to read varibales from text file as the following:
cat /dev/null > /rename-OUT.txt
while read line
do
set -- `echo $line`
snmpset -c dslmibs $1 sysName.0 octetstring $2
after=$(snmpget -c dslmibs $1 sysName.0 | cut -d: -f3)
echo "$1,$2,$after" >>... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I am using gawk (--posix) for extracting some information from something like the following lines (in a text file):
sms_snath_hp_C/CORE BUILD PREREQUISITE:
total 1556
drwxrwxrwx 2 sn sn 4096 2008-06-27 08:31 ./
drwxrwxrwx 13 sn sn 4096 2009-07-22 14:48 ../
-rwxrwxrwx 1 sn sn ... (14 Replies)
I have a script which read a file it does
while read -r line, then i echo line out
echo "$line"
Problem is the echo does not echo space and tabs at the end of each line. How do i get the end of line space as well (6 Replies)
hi
i have a file which store some data.the contents of my file is
data1:data2
data3:data4
i have a script which read this file
correct="$(cat /root/sh | cut -d: -f1)"
i used this syntax..please help me which syntax is used to read blank spaces.and then remove it and after that how to read... (1 Reply)
Is this possible?
I have a for loop in a shell script reading a list, but I want each line to be a loop, not each thing with a space.
Here is the example:
HOSTLIST="\
1.2.3.4 serverA
1.2.3.5 serverB"
for NBUHOST in `echo $HOSTLIST`
do
ssh ${SERVERNAME} "echo "${NBUHOST}"... (3 Replies)
Hello!
I have one problem with my bash script - I would like to be able to read white space characters from stdin (for example single " ") - can I acomplish that somehow? I need to read only one character at the time, so I use read -s -n 1 var but it doesn't work for whitespaces apparently.
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LEARN ABOUT MINIX
cp
CP(1) General Commands Manual CP(1)NAME
cp, cpdir - file copy
SYNOPSIS
cp [-pifsmrRvx] file1 file2
cp [-pifsrRvx] file ... directory
cpdir [-ifvx] file1 file2
OPTIONS -p Preserve full mode, uid, gid and times
-i Ask before removing existing file
-f Forced remove existing file
-s Make similar, copy some attributes
-m Merge trees, disable the into-a-directory trick
-r Copy directory trees with link structure, etc. intact
-R Copy directory trees and treat special files as ordinary
-v Display what cp is doing
-x Do not cross device boundaries
EXAMPLES
cp oldfile newfile # Copy oldfile to newfile
cp -R dir1 dir2 # Copy a directory tree
DESCRIPTION
Cp copies one file to another, or copies one or more files to a directory. Special files are normally opened and read, unless -r is used.
-r also copies the link structure, something -R doesn't care about. The -s option differs from -p that it only copies the times if the
target file already exists. A normal copy only copies the mode of the file, with the file creation mask applied. Set-uid bits are cleared
if the owner cannot be set. (The -s flag does not patronize you by clearing bits. Alas -s and -r are nonstandard.)
Cpdir is a convenient synonym for cp -psmr to make a precise copy of a directory tree.
SEE ALSO cat(1), mkdir(1), rmdir(1), ln(1), rm(1).
CP(1)