Before I even attempt this, is it possible to grep for a pattern, maybe a partial sentence like "go to page 3", assign that to a variable and then use awk or something to pull out the 3 and assign it to a variable? So first I would have
Gotopg = "go to page 3"
then
page = 3 (9 Replies)
I do a lot of command line scripting to capture data from files or other command output. I've checked in a number of Unix and scripting books but for the life of me I can't find out how to asign field data from nawk output into variables that I can manipulate later. For example, reading a two... (6 Replies)
What am I doing wrong? I was searching for the answer to assigning variables from output. I found this simple response
ls -l apply_want.m | read perms links owner group size mtime1 mtime2 mtime3 file
this should allow me to echo the variables
echo "$perms | $links | $owner | $group |... (2 Replies)
If I have 3 variables and I want to check if any of these is null. If one of them is null then it should be assigned a value of 0.I have the following code below.
The output should be 0 is A, 11 is B, 33 is C
$a=
$b=11
$c=33
$echo $a $b $c
$11 33
for i in "${a}" "${b}" "${c}";
do
... (2 Replies)
I'm trying to understand if it's possible to create a set of variables that are numbered based on another variable (using eval) in a loop, and then call on it before the loop ends.
As an example I've written a script called question (The fist command is to show what is the contents of the... (2 Replies)
Hi all
I run my program prog.c in the following way :
$ ./prog 1 > output.txt where 1 is a user defined initial value used by the program.
But now I want to run it for many a thousand initial values, 1-1000, and store all the outputs in different files.
Like
$ ./prog 1... (1 Reply)
Hi All,
I have a fixed-width datafile from which i need to extract value/string starting from some position to the specified length in each of the lines.
awk '{print substr($0,x,y)}' datafile --- is working fine
but
awk 'BEGIN{a=0}{a=substr($0,x,y);print $a}' datafile ---is giving... (3 Replies)
Hi Everyone,
I have a flatfile "inbox.txt" which contains some information:
Location 0, folder "Inbox", SIM memory, Inbox folder
SMS message
SMSC number : "+24800000023"
Sent : Sat 04 Aug 2012 09:01:00 PM +0700
Coding : Default GSM alphabet... (5 Replies)
Hi All,
Is it possible to grep for two files and assign their names to two separate variables with for loop? I am doing the below currently:
if
then
for fname in $( cd $dirA ; ls -tr | grep "^Ucountry_file$")
do
InFile=$dirA/$fname
... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: swasid
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wcwidth
WCWIDTH(3) BSD Library Functions Manual WCWIDTH(3)NAME
wcwidth -- number of column positions of a wide-character code
LIBRARY
Standard C Library (libc, -lc)
SYNOPSIS
#include <wchar.h>
int
wcwidth(wchar_t wc);
DESCRIPTION
The wcwidth() function determines the number of column positions required to display the wide character wc.
RETURN VALUES
The wcwidth() function returns 0 if the wc argument is a null wide character (L'