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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers set sub-string as variable Post 302437074 by tedy2808 on Wednesday 14th of July 2010 01:14:27 AM
Old 07-14-2010
set sub-string as variable
ok...i've edited my script and i got my desired output..
but the position of the string is always changes..Thus the script is no longer efficient.It may output wrong result. i'm thinking of creating a script that can read the exact sub-string that i wanted...let say from the whole line, i want to capture only "my file name"..instead of i have to set the position.

maybe in the log file, the last line has long/many words,so i just wanted to capture certain word in order for me to assign it as variable..
i've tried to search and did some try an error but still doesn't work.. any idea?


Code:
#!/bin/sh
  dir=/home/user/input/test.log

#cat $dir

msg=`tail -1 $dir`
sub=`echo ${msg:6:23}` 
echo "$sub"

#name=${msg:0:21}


echo "$msg"
#echo "$name"

Last edited by pludi; 07-14-2010 at 03:55 AM.. Reason: code tags, please...
 

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

       sulogin [options] [tty]

DESCRIPTION

       sulogin is invoked by init when the system goes into single user mode.

       The user is prompted:

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OPTIONS

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