I am tryin to read a file and while doing so i need to skip the lines which start with a hash (#) char.
I thought of using a goto command but a lot of guys on this site say its not the good way to program. Moreover I am using a ksh shell which deos not support goto command.
Below is the algo I am using; which definately doesn't work. I need a logic to substitute GOTO command. I have thought of using case logic and also functions; but they some how dont fit well with the work I am trying to do. Let me know if you need more details/info
I have a file that has a list of numbers in it. Each line has a different number. I am trying to create some sort of loop within a script that will pick the numbers up on lines 1 and 2 and then put those figures into the script. It then goes through the process then loops back and reads lines 2 and... (5 Replies)
How can I exclude reading lines in a file that contains the following:
filesystem:/home/pach/liv_patches 128005120 88456640 37270758 71% /home/patches
That is, all lines that contain and begins with filesystem: should not be processed/read from a file (5 Replies)
hi,
I have a shell script that searches for a particular pattern in all the files inside a directory, and gives the count of that pattern occurences in a file.
Now i should not count the pattern if it exists in side a { .... }, as shown below.
{
......
.....
.... PATTERN1.......... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I have a file:
file.txt
1 word
2 word
word
word
3 word
4 word
and I would like to create a set:
set number = `cut -d" " -f1 ${1}` #${1} is the text file
but it should only contain the lines which begin with numbers,
and another set which contains the lines which begin with... (10 Replies)
Im trying to ssh to a remote machine to grep 'x info' *.log and Im able to get the grep output as expected but "after" the policies (1st 14 lines) - I need to skip the first 14 lines.
Its SunOS.
Plz help??? (1 Reply)
Im trying to ssh to a remote machine to grep 'x info' *.log and Im able to get the grep output as expected but "after" the policies (1st 14 lines) - I need to skip the first 14 lines.
Its SunOS.
Plz help??? (7 Replies)
Hi all,
I jut use a loop to read lines from the user and redirect it to a file.
echo "Enter the line"
while read -r LINE
do
echo $LINE >> FILE
if ;then
break
fi
done
input
app... (1 Reply)
Hello everyone,
I have thought about this for quite some time and know what I want to do but am having some trouble at it. I have a text file filled with numbers like this, there are more in the file obviously. Each number is separated by a space.
1 3 2 4 5
1 -1 1 0 -1 5The idea is... (7 Replies)
Hello,
I am new to AWK and in UNIX in general. I am hoping you can help me out here.
Here is my data:
root@ubuntu:~# cat circuits.list
WORD1
AA
BB
CC
DD
Active
ISP1
ISP NAME1
XX-XXXXXX1
WORD1
AA
BB
CC (9 Replies)
Hello, I am new in shell scripting. I need help regarding following.
I have 4 files generated by backups daily. I have stored the names of these 4 files into one file. i.e I have 4 files names as a, b, c & d and these names have been put into one file abcd.txt.
Now I want to cat each file in... (7 Replies)