1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi folks, I would like to know the difference between shell programming and awk programming. Actually i have developed a few applications in both but i could not find a better difference other than the syntax differences. For example, the awk programming syntax is complicated. It has "{" and... (4 Replies)

2. Programming

Im trying to write some code atm which gets the complete pathname of a folder and strips off references to the parent folders. The end result should be just the name of the folder. Currently Im able to extract the folder name, however Im getting junk added onto the name as well which is making... (7 Replies)

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello i need help with following problem: i need to update a file containing records in following format: student1 classa student2 classb student3 student4 classc i need to associate EACH student with a class in my output file ... so for students 3 and 4, i need to create a... (12 Replies)

4. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hi all I encountered a strange phenomenon when reading / writing to RS232 serial device (on my machine /dev/ttyS0) I have simple 2 processes: 1) process which WRITE characters from /dev/ttyS0 For example write the characters... (2 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

i want to calculate power of 10 as follows: coef=2.0588 ra1=$(awk 'BEGIN{print 10^$coef}') it gives a result 1 when, if i calculate ra1=$(awk 'BEGIN{print 10^2.0588}') it gives a result 114.499 what should i do? (2 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi I have a multi -line file which is sorted by the 1-st colomn in the following format: 400 0000 0001 1000 1010 0111 0000 1000 0000 402 1101 0000 1100 1010 0111 1000 1000 0000 403 1001 0000 1100 1010 0111 0000 1000 0000 495 1000 0000 1100 ... (4 Replies)

7. Programming

Hi Everybody. I have an Ubuntu linux 10.04 os and want be able to use the website of intuit but it only runs on unix. Is there any way that I can put the needed drivers in this os since both linux/unix share some distinctive programs. If this is not possible how can I save the information that I... (1 Reply)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, I read the AWK manual in the MAN page. But i didn't understand the below piece of code in the script TABLE=`echo "${FILE}" | awk -F"/" '{print $NF}' | cut -d"." -f1 | awk -F"_" '{print $NF}' 2>> ${LOGFILE}`; Please explain the above code. Thanks in advance ....... Regards,... (4 Replies)

9. Programming

Dear Linux users, I'm a noob at openmp, gcc and c programming. I can run my own openmp code in terminal with no problem, eg. gcc -fopenmp program.c -o program. But now I'm trying to compile and run another person's code, it contains a makefile and multiple .c and .h files. I don't know how to... (2 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, I am new to AWK programming. I have the following for loop in my awk program. cat printhtml.awk: BEGIN -------- <some code here> END{ ----------<some code here> for(N=0; N<H; N++) { for(M=5; M<D; M++) print "\t" D ""; } ----- } ... (2 Replies)