I am trying to write a script to sum the series of integers passed as command line arguments to the script.
Code:
#!/bin/bash
while ((n=n+$1)); do
shift
done
echo $n
the n gives the correct value, ie sum of all the passed positional parameters, but with an error message n=n+: syntax error: operand expected (error token is "+"). I guess, this error message is due to the NULL value after shifting all the positional arguments. Now, my question is, how to make this script work proper? Also, I want to keep this script as compact as it is now.
I a file with log entries... I want to sort it so that the last line in the file is first and the first line is last..
eg.
Sample file
1
h
a
f
8
6
After sort should look like
6
8
f
a
h
1 (11 Replies)
I need to sort the particular column only in reverse order how i can give it..
if i give the -r option the whole file is getting sorted in reverse order.
1st 2nd col 3rd
C col 4th col 5th col
-------------------------------------------
C... (7 Replies)
Hi Everyone,
I have one a.txt:
a b 001 c
b b 002 c
c c, not 002 c
The output should be
001
002
002
If i use cut -f 3 -d' ', this does not work on the 3rd line, so i thought is any way to cut the field counting from the end? or any perl thing can do this?:confused:
... (3 Replies)
Hi, Guys. Please help me to find solution to this problem using shell scripting.
I have an INPUT file with 4 columns separated by tab. Each block of records is separated by -----
-----
Sample1 5402 6680 Pattern01
Sample2 2216 2368 Pattern02... (6 Replies)
command/script(apart from awk) to print the fields in reverse order
that is last field has to come first and so on and first field has to go last
Input
store-id date sale
.............
.............
... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I want to print the item in reverse order such that the output would look like
00 50 50 23 40 22 02 96
Below is the input:
00 05 05 32 04 22 20 69
Video tutorial on how to use code tags in The UNIX and Linux Forums. (5 Replies)
I have a unix script that outputs a summary file to the mac desktop.
The file is called summary.txt
I am trying to configure such so that the summary.txt file lists the content contained within such in reverse sort order.
I have used sort -r but it does not seem to work.
I would be... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: Braveheart
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LEARN ABOUT ULTRIX
getopt
getopt(1) General Commands Manual getopt(1)Name
getopt - parse command options
Syntax
set - - getopt optstring $*
Description
The command breaks up options in command lines for easy parsing by Shell procedures and checks for legal options. The optstring option
letters are recognized if a letter is followed by a colon, the option expects an argument which may or may not be separated from it by
white space. For further information, see
The special option, specified by two minus signs (- -), delimits the end of the options. If the delimiters are used explicitly, recognizes
it; otherwise, generates it. In either case, places the delimiter at the end of the options. The positional parameters ($1 $2 ...) of the
shell are reset so that each option is preceded by a single minus sign (-) and is in its own positional parameter; each option argument is
also parsed into its own positional parameter.
Examples
The following code fragment shows how you can process the arguments for a command that can take the options a or b, as well as the option
o, which requires an argument:
#!/bin/sh5
set -- getopt abo: $*
if [ $? != 0 ]
then
echo $USAGE
exit 2
fi
for i in $*
do
case $i in
-a | -b) FLAG=$i; shift;;
-o) OARG=$2; shift 2;;
--) shift; break;;
esac
done
This code accepts any of the following as equivalent:
cmd -aoarg file file
cmd -a -o arg file file
cmd -oarg -a file file
cmd -a -oarg -- file file
Diagnostics
The command prints an error message on the standard error when it encounters an option letter not included in optstring.
See Alsosh5(1), getopt(3)getopt(1)