If i have a variable which is a decimal number, i.e 34.05 How can you make decimal point fall on the 15th character on the screen? Or any other that you can specify? Can you do it using sed or awk? (3 Replies)
If in a script I am taking an input (R201) for example and assigning it to a variable, how would I change the R to uppercase if it was keyed in as r201? I can't seem to get it to work with toupper (4 Replies)
should be a simple question, I am trying to uppercase every first character in a word on the list.
abc
google
cnn
services
My first thought was sed 'y/^/^/', but it changed all the characters, not just the first character.
any thoughts? (7 Replies)
I need a script that reads the out put of a command (softwareupdate --list) and will tally up the number of asterisks in the output and tell me how many there were. How do I go about getting my script to treat asterisks as a regular character and not a wildcard or some other operator? (8 Replies)
Another frustrating scripting problem from a biologist trying to manipulate a file with several millions line. For each of the line I need to compare the uppercase A or C or G or T with the lowercase a or c or g or t. If there are more uppercases, a + should be added to a new column, otherwise a -... (10 Replies)
I decided I wanted to have the cd command print my full working directory after each cd command, so I put this cw command in .bashrc as a function.
cw ()
{
cd "${1}"
pwd
}While this works I would like pwd to print escapes when a space in a directory name exists. This would... (7 Replies)
I want to make the first character of some words to be uppercase. I have a file like the one below.
uid,givenname,sn,cn,mail,telephonenumber
mattj,matt,johnson,matt johnson,mattj@gmail.com
markv,mark,vennet,matt s vennet,markv@gmail.com
mikea,mike,austi,mike austin,mike@gmail.com
I want... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I am writing a shell script where I want that # should be added in all those lines as the first character where the pattern matches.
file has lot of functions defined
a.sh
#!/bin/bash
fn a {
beautiful evening
sunny day
}
fn b {
}
fn c {
hello world .its a beautiful day
... (12 Replies)
I have a file name :
var=UsrAccChgRpt
I want to make them upper case.
Tried:
$var | tr
Error:
tr: Invalid combination of options and Strings.
Usage: tr | -ds | -s | -ds | -s ] String1 String2
tr { -d | -s | -d | -s } String1
Could you please help. I am using AIX... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: digioleg54
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LEARN ABOUT ULTRIX
makedbm
makedbm(8yp)makedbm(8yp)Name
makedbm - make a yellow pages dbm file
Syntax
makedbm [ -i yp_input_file ] [ -o yp_output_name ] [ -d yp_domain_name ] [ -m yp_master_name ] infile outfile
makedbm [ -u dbmfilename ]
Description
The command takes the file specified by the argument infile and converts it to a pair of files in format, namely and Each line of the input
file is converted to a single record. All characters up to the first tab or space form the key, and the rest of the line is defined as the
key's associated data. If a line ends with a backslash (), the data for that record is continued onto the next line. It is left for the
clients of the yellow pages to interpret the number sign (#); does not treat it as a comment character. The infile parameter can be a
hyphen (-), in which case reads the standard input.
The command is meant to be used in generating files for the yellow pages service. The command generates a special entry with the key
yp_last_modified, which is the date of infile.
Options-i Create a special entry with the key yp_input_file.
-o Create a special entry with the key yp_output_name.
-d Create a special entry with the key yp_domain_name.
-m Create a special entry with the key yp_master_name. If no master host name is specified, yp_master_name will be set to the local
host name.
-u Undo a file. That is, print out a file one entry per line, with a single space separating keys from values.
Examples
The following example shows how a combination of commands can be used to make the yellow pages files and from the file. The percent sign
(%) signifies the system prompt.
% awk 'BEGIN { FS = ":"; OFS = ""; }
{ print $1, $0 }' /etc/passwd > ptmp
% makedbm ptmp passwd.byname
% rm ptmp
The command creates the file ptmp which is in a form usable by The command uses the ptmp file to create the yellow pages dbm files and The
command removes the ptmp file.
See Alsoyppasswd(1yp), dbm(3x), ypmake(8yp)makedbm(8yp)