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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LEARN ABOUT ULTRIX
xlator_call
xlator_call(8) System Manager's Manual xlator_call(8)Name
xlator_call - shell script to invoke PostScript translators
Syntax
xlator_call datatype orientation pagesize width length indent
Description
This Bourne shell script can be called by the line printer daemon to invoke the appropriate translator to convert each data type to Post-
Script. The data type passed by may be specified by using the command with the -Ddatatype option, or by using the Da=datatype capability
in the file.
For a file in a data syntax to be translated to PostScript, the script must contain a case branch which recognizes the data type string and
calls a suitable filter. The supplied recognizes the ANSI, ASCII, ReGIS and Tektronix 4014 data types.
Arguments
datatype
The valid data types are: or any other for which a translator has been installed.
orientation
The valid orientations are: portrait or landscape.
pagesize
The valid page sizes are: or
width
The width (in characters) of the page.
length
The length (in lines) of the page.
indent
The amount (in spaces) the output is to be indented.
All the valid arguments are described in detail by the reference page.
Examples
An example shell script is shown below:
case $datatype in
ansi)
exec ansi_ps -F $pagesize -O $orientation -e "$@";;
ascii)
echo "( 04) cvn {} def"
exec ln03rof -w$width -l$length -i$indent;;
postscript)
exec cat;;
tek4014)
exec tek4014_ps -F $pagesize -O $orientation;;
regis)
exec regis_ps -F $pagesize -O $orientation;;
*)
echo "$0: Translator for data type $datatype not installed" >&2
esac
When the shell script is called, the path searched is:
/usr/local/lib/lpdfilters:/usr/ucb:/bin:/usr/bin:
/usr/lib:/usr/lib/lpdfilters
Files
The script
See Alsolno3rof(8), printcap(5), ansi_ps(8), lpd(8)xlator_call(8)