How do I check if a variable consisted of letters, numbers or both letters and numbers?
For example, I have a variable $X and I want to print "1" if it contains only letters, "2" if it contains only numbers and "3" if it contains both (2 Replies)
Hello all I am a unix newbie....
I have a sun netra t1 and it is freaking out
I am connected to it through a console port, and it is just spitting out a ton on numbers and letters like below its just keeps going and going.
I have tried rebooting it and I cannot get it back to any kind of a... (1 Reply)
I wish to give line number from one point to another in sed command like this
sed -n 1,1000000p file1.txt >file2.txt
but variable line number $x,$x+100000 can i give it cos i tried and it was giving an error any suggestions?/
Thx in advance
AC (2 Replies)
Hi,
I columns with both number and letters however i need the number 4 trimmed off the lines that have 3 numbers in them so it just because the 2 preceding numbers only
For example
V25QG2-K18QG-V25CG2
L26HG-L17HA-L26CG
I434QD1-L19HB2-I434CD1
I434QD1-A31QB-I434CD1 ... (7 Replies)
Hello all. I am a beginner UNIX user who is using UNIX to work on a bioinformatics project for my university.
I have a bit of a complicated issue in trying to use sed (or awk) to "find and replace" bases (letters) in a genetics data spreadsheet (converted to a text file, can be either... (3 Replies)
Hi Experts,
I am finding difficulty to get exact match:
file
OPERATING_SYSTEM=HP-UX
LOOPBACK_ADDRESS=127.0.0.1
INTERFACE_NAME="lan3"
IP_ADDRESS="10.53.52.241"
SUBNET_MASK="255.255.255.192"
BROADCAST_ADDRESS=""
INTERFACE_STATE=""
DHCP_ENABLE=0
INTERFACE_NAME="lan3:1"... (6 Replies)
Hello,
I have a file such as this:
chr1
chr2
chr1
chr2
chr3
chr10
chr4
chr5
chrz
chr1AI want to sort it, I use this command:
sort -k1 -th -n testfilebut I get this output, how can I fix this?
chr1
chr1
chr10
chr1A
chr2
chr2 (3 Replies)
I have a file with hundreds of lines in it. I wanted to extract anything that matches the following:
KR followed by 4 digits:
example KR1201
cat list | sed "s///g"
Is the closest I've come, and obviously it is not what I want. This would remove all of the items that I want and leave me... (2 Replies)
Heyas
Just a little fun script (code block) i'd like to share for fun.
#/bin/bash
# roman.sh
#
# Function
#
num2roman() { # NUM
# Returns NUM in roman letters
#
input=$1 # input num
output="" # Clear output string
len=${#input} # Initial length to count down
... (9 Replies)
Hi!
I found and then adapt the code for my pipeline...
awk -F"," -vOFS="," '{printf "%0.2f %0.f\n",$2,$4}' xxx > yyy
I add -F"," -vOFS="," (for input and output as csv file) and I change the columns and the number of decimal...
It works but I have also some problems... here my columns
... (7 Replies)
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shtool-subst
SHTOOL-SUBST.TMP(1) GNU Portable Shell Tool SHTOOL-SUBST.TMP(1)NAME
shtool-subst - GNU shtool sed(1) substitution operations
SYNOPSIS
shtool subst [-v|--verbose] [-t|--trace] [-n|--nop] [-w|--warning] [-q|--quiet] [-s|--stealth] [-i|--interactive] [-b|--backup ext]
[-e|--exec cmd] [-f|--file cmd-file] [file] [file ...]
DESCRIPTION
This command applies one or more sed(1) substitution operations to stdin or any number of files.
OPTIONS
The following command line options are available.
-v, --verbose
Display some processing information.
-t, --trace
Enable the output of the essential shell commands which are executed.
-n, --nop
No operation mode. Actual execution of the essential shell commands which would be executed is suppressed.
-w, --warning
Show warning on substitution operation resulting in no content change on every file. The default is to show a warning on substitution
operations resulted in no content change on all files.
-q, --quiet
Suppress warning on substitution operation resulting in no content change.
-s, --stealth
Stealth operation. Preserve timestamp on file.
-i, --interactive
Enter interactive mode where the user has to approve each operation.
-b, --backup ext
Preserve backup of original file using file name extension ext. Default is to overwrite the original file.
-e, --exec cmd
Specify sed(1) command directly.
-f, --file cmd-file
Read sed(1) command from file.
EXAMPLE
# shell script
shtool subst -i -e 's;(c) ([0-9]*)-2000;(c) 1-2001;' *.[ch]
# RPM spec-file
%install
shtool subst -v -n
-e 's;^(prefix=).*;1 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_prefix};g'
-e 's;^(sysconfdir=).*;1 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_prefix}/etc;g'
`find . -name Makefile -print`
make install
HISTORY
The GNU shtool subst command was originally written by Ralf S. Engelschall <rse@engelschall.com> in 2001 for GNU shtool. It was prompted
by the need to have a uniform and convenient patching frontend to sed(1) operations in the OpenPKG package specifications.
SEE ALSO shtool(1), sed(1).
18-Jul-2008 shtool 2.0.8 SHTOOL-SUBST.TMP(1)