Is there a way to use metacharacters in a loop or in an if.
I want to allow a user to enter Y, y, Yes, yes, Yah, etc...
in a loop I tried:
read response
while *" ]
do........
and
while *" ]
do .........
this works for grep or egrep but not in loops
Why?????? (4 Replies)
I want to display an asterisk to the screen as part of a string. I know how to use the Backslash to escape it's value. But how do I display it without showing the Backslash? (1 Reply)
I have a file that looks like this:
G. KRESSLAR
9618 W. APPALOOSA DRIVE
SUN CITY, AZ 85373
SHIRLEY ALLEN
7272 W. VIA MONTOYA DRIVE
GLENDALE, AZ 85310
LOUIS VALDEZ
244441 N. 86TH AVENUE
PEORIA, AZ 85383
DONNA NEWBON
3231 W. DENTON #D
PHOENIX, AZ 85017
SARAH WILSON
6534 W. PALO... (3 Replies)
Hi everyone,
My problem is strange, I cannot think of why this is happening.
I have a set of data that looks like this:
Although it does not look it, the fields are tab delimited. I have made sure of this, and awk does recognize them as such. However, it divides what I would expect... (2 Replies)
:confused:Hi ,
Can someone please advise what is the meaning of metacharacters in below code?
a_PROCESS=${0##*/}
a_DPFX=${a_PROCESS%.*}
a_LPFX="a_DPFX : $$ : "
a_UPFX="Usage: $a_PROCESS"
Regards,
gehlnar (3 Replies)
Hello. I am learning how to use Unix through an online course. Unfortunately the text that we use isn't very good, so I could use some help with a pretty basic question.
Use metacharacters and the ll command to list all filenames under the datafiles directory that contain a dot "." with the... (2 Replies)
Hi I have an XML File with default header($ lines of data) and default tail (Two Lines) and the body has occurrence of start<Folder> and ends with </Folder>.
Now i want to split each occurrence i mean each start and end in to separate files with header and tail.
For example:
header line... (12 Replies)
Hi there,
say I have a line with multiple columns but with different separation formats: spaces, tabs..
Is it possible to have AWK print the separation format between each column? (10 Replies)
I need to sum up the values in field nr 5 in a data file that contains some file listing. The 5th field denotes the size of each file and following are some sample values.
1,775,947,633
4,738
7,300
16,610
15,279
0
0
I tried the following code in a shell script.
awk '{sum+=$5} END{print... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: krishmaths
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COLORS(3) libbash colors Library Manual COLORS(3)NAME
colors -- libbash library for setting tty colors.
SYNOPSIS
colorSet <color>
colorReset
colorPrint [<indent>] <color> <text>
colorPrintN [<indent>] <color> <text>
DESCRIPTION
General
colors is a collection of functions that make it very easy to put colored text on tty.
The function list:
colorSet Sets the color of the prints to the tty to COLOR
colorReset Resets current tty color back to normal
colorPrint Prints TEXT in the color COLOR indented by INDENT (without adding a newline)
colorPrintN The same as colorPrint, but trailing newline is added
Detailed interface description follows.
Available colors:
Green
Red
Yellow
White
The color parameter is non-case-sensitive (i.e. RED, red, ReD, and all the other forms are valid and are the same as Red).
FUNCTIONS DESCRIPTIONS
colorSet <color>
Sets the current printing color to color.
colorReset
Resets current tty color back to normal.
colorPrint [<indent>] <color>
Prints text using the color color indented by indent (without adding a newline).
Parameters:
<indent>
The column to move to before start printing. This parameter is optional. If ommitted - start output from current cursor position.
<color>
The color to use.
<color>
The text to print.
colorPrintN [<indent>] <color>
The same as colorPrint, except a trailing newline is added.
EXAMPLES
Printing a green 'Hello World' with a newline:
Using colorSet:
$ colorSet green
$ echo 'Hello World'
$ colorReset
Using colorPrint:
$ colorPrint 'Hello World'; echo
Using colorPrintN:
$ colorPrintN 'Hello World'
AUTHORS
Hai Zaar <haizaar@haizaar.com>
Gil Ran <gil@ran4.net>
SEE ALSO ldbash(1), libbash(1)Linux Epoch Linux