actuall I did forget the single quote, but it isn't referring to a negative number. It's part of a sample script. I should have included the whole thing.
what I wanted to know was how the * and $ mean what my book says it means, because I don't see it (particularly the dollar sign at the end of the grep expression; I know what it means in reference to the positional parameter).
There are files on a remote server with the file name ending in "mm-dd-yy.txt". The script I am running is:
mls "Daily_Service_Text_File_*" /my/local/dir/Filelisting.txt
nawk -F_ -f file.awk /my/local/dir/Filelisting.txt | sort -k1n | cut -f2- | tail -1
It worked up too "12-31-07.txt" but... (3 Replies)
I found this very useful perl script that will check a remote ftp server, search for files of a specific time and get them. When I run the script it works, but it gave me the following error:
Couldn't get filename_12-13-07.txt Bad file number
What in this script would cause this? I know... (2 Replies)
Hi people I am trying to learn this code and see how it relates to the old DOS days. I have a line of code that I am not sure what the first part does. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
It is from a Save command that is used to backup files to a directory.
It goes like this
if ;then... (10 Replies)
Hi,
I have a script at the moment of which reads in simply what the latest version is within a folder i.e. v001, v002, v003 etc and then stores this latest version in a variable i.e. $LATEST would echo v003. I have then cut this string so that I only consider the 003 part. I would then like to... (3 Replies)
I'm reading about command substitutions and came across this little function in my book:
function lsd
{
date=$1
ls -l |grep -i "^.\{42\}$date"|cut -c55-
}
it's a little example which is supposed to select files by modification date, given as an argument to the function.
I... (3 Replies)
I am trying to simplify the coding in a script I was given, but it was written 7-10 years ago and is pretty complicated. below is a tidbit, if someone can break it down for me I would appreciate it.
sub ParseText
{
my ($line, $key, $value, $sub, $script);
foreach $line (@_)... (0 Replies)
I have a string, eg 7f30.3 and I want to store things in the following way
npos = 7
decform = true
width = 30
ndp = 3
I need to read each character one by one. I am coding in fortran but I can try to code it should answer be given in C in the above way. (2 Replies)
Hi folks,
I have a scenario to convert the update statements into insert statements using shell script (awk, sed...) or in database using regex.
I have a bunch of update statements with all columns in a file which I need to convert into insert statements.
UPDATE TABLE_A SET COL1=1 WHERE... (0 Replies)
Dear experts,
I am a relative novice in the Unix and came across a very useful code that I regularly use for my research blindly. I am wondering if any of the professional members could kindly briefly explain to me what the code actually does?
Many thanks in advance
The script is
awk... (4 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
paps
PAPS(1) General Commands Manual PAPS(1)NAME
paps - UTF-8 to PostScript converter using Pango
SYNOPSIS
paps [options] files...
DESCRIPTION
paps reads a UTF-8 encoded file and generates a PostScript language rendering of the file. The rendering is done by creating outline curves
through the pango ft2 backend.
OPTIONS
These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is
included below.
--landscape
Landscape output. Default is portrait.
--columns=cl
Number of columns output. Default is 1.
Please notice this option isn't related to the terminal length as in a "80 culums terminal".
--font=desc
Set the font description. Default is Monospace 12.
--rtl Do right to left (RTL) layout.
--paper ps
Choose paper size. Known paper sizes are legal, letter and A4. Default is A4.
Postscript points
Each postscript point equals to 1/72 of an inch. 36 points are 1/2 of an inch.
--bottom-margin=bm
Set bottom margin. Default is 36 postscript points.
--top-margin=tm
Set top margin. Default is 36 postscript points.
--left-margin=lm
Set left margin. Default is 36 postscript points.
--right-margin=rm
Set right margin. Default is 36 postscript points.
--gutter-width=gw
Set gutter width. Default is 40 postscript points.
--help Show summary of options.
--header
Draw page header for each page.
--markup
Interpret the text as pango markup.
--lpi Set the lines per inch. This determines the line spacing.
--cpi Set the characters per inch. This is an alternative method of specifying the font size.
--stretch-chars
Indicates that characters should be stretched in the y-direction to fill up their vertical space. This is similar to the texttops
behaviour.
AUTHOR
paps was written by Dov Grobgeld <dov.grobgeld@gmail.com>.
This manual page was written by Lior Kaplan <kaplan@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).
April 17, 2006 PAPS(1)