1. Shell Programming and Scripting

In the following script when I get SIZE1 and SIZE2, they are of type string. I can not do any mathematical operations on them. I wanted to find out if I can convert string in to Number. Thanks in Advance. FILE1='/export/registry/incoming/reg.dmp' FILE2='/export/registry/reg.dmp' SIZE1=`ls... (2 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi guys, I hope you can help me with my problem. I have a text file that contains lines like this: 78 ANGELO -809.05 79 ANGELO2 -5,000.06 I need to find all occurences of amounts that are negative and replace them with x's 78 ANGELO xxxxxxx 79... (4 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

hi, I have a file where i need to count the occurences of a string ex) 'welcome to unix forum'. can anybody help me out (12 Replies)

4. Programming

I have string named texts which consist of section label “BOOK-SEC-“. Section starts from 1 to n, where n is a number. For this example conside the value of n is 9. That is, the string variable looks like “BOOK-SEC-1... (2 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a txt file as database. when i run my program what it does is it ask me for 3 name and stored in the file as name1:name2:name3:1 when u enter 3 name it add those in file as above format and add 1 at the end. I what i want is if i enter same names again it changes that 1 to 2 and so... (3 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi Champs, I am a newbie to unix world, and I am trying to built a script which seems to be far tough to be done alone by me..... " I am having a raw csv file which contains around 50 fields..." From that file I have to grep 2 fields "A" and "B"....field "A" is to be aligned vertically... (11 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi everyone, I am working on fetchmail + procmail to filter mails and I am having problem with parsing a long line in the body of the email. Could anyone help me construct a reg exp for this string below. It needs to match exactly as this string. GetRyt... (4 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a string c12 and want to get the number 12 In general instead of 12 I can have any number. I have to capture the number as I need to do some computations on it. I am using a bash script (6 Replies)

9. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

I have below code inside my awk script if ( $0 ~ /SVC IN:/ ) { svc_in=substr( $0,23 , 3); if (msg_start == 1 && msg_end == 0) { msg_arr=$0; } } else if ( $0 ~ /^SVC OUT:/ ) { svc_out=substr( $0, 9, 3); if (msg_start == 1 && msg_end == 0) ... (6 Replies)

10. Programming

Hello ! I'm creating a CGI which allow to display graph from some data. The datas looks like : 2020-01-13-00-00,384.00,350.00 2020-01-13-06-00,384.00,350.00 2020-01-13-12-00,384.00,350.00 2020-01-13-18-00,384.00,350.00 2020-01-14-00-00,384.00,350.00... (1 Reply)