Do you have control over the field separator character? If you used a more common separator like a pipe (or converted " && " to a pipe before processing it) you could parse the string and put the values into an array (I am using ksh93 on Solaris by the way):
Just another way to go about it.
If I do "ls -l filename" in a script, it should return something like this:
-rw-r--r-- 1 user group 5945 Feb 28 14:24 filename
How do I put each of the above strings into a different variable?
eg Permissions, username, groupname, date (7 Replies)
I'm only new to shell programming and have been given a task to do a program in .sh, however I've come to a point where I'm not sure what to do. This is my code so far:
# process all arguments (i.e. loop while $1 is present)
while ; do
# echo "Arg is $1"
case $1 in
-h*|-H*) echo "help... (4 Replies)
Hi Guys,
I want to extract users environment variables via a sh script, and for some reason it is not working.
According to the su man page: Example 3: Executing command with user bin's Environment and
Permissions
To execute command with the temporary environment and per-... (2 Replies)
Hi guys,
I am stuck in this problem. Please help.
I have two files.
FILE1 (with records starting from '>' )
>TC1723_3 similar to Scific_A7Q9Q3
EMSPSQDYCDDYFKLTYPCTAGAQYYGRGALPVYWNYNYGAIGEALKLDLLNHPEYIEQN
ATMAFQAAIWRWMNPMKKGQPSAHDAFVGNWKP
>TC214_2 similar to Quiet_Ref100_Q8W2B2 Cluster;... (1 Reply)
Hello all.
I can not remember the command to extract a variable from the date command.
Basically what I need to do is to store the values of date in variable and rearrange them. I can not remember the command or the syntax to do so.
so..
date
Mon Mar 8 06:57:19 GMT 2010
$1 $2 ... (12 Replies)
hi all,
I'm trying to automate some tasks and while I've got the script itself working, I'm having difficulties with automatic file detection and associated variable setting...
for example, in a directory I've got several files... something along the lines of:
xis0_NAME_src.file... (2 Replies)
Hello,
I need some help,
I got a CSV file called test.txt with this text in it :
08/02/2011;0,677;0,903;1,079;1,336;1,513;1,683
There's only a line and i need to copy theese numbers into variables :
0,677
0,903
1,079
1,336
1,513
1,683
The output file should look like this... (5 Replies)
I have a string like
Months=jan feb mar april x y ..
Here the number of fields in Months is not definite
I need to extract each field in the Months string and pass it to awk . Don't want to use for in since it is a loop . How can i do it (2 Replies)
Hi UNIX Members,
I've been tasked with performing the following:
Extract a block of data in column form
#This data changes each time, therefore automating future procedures
Please Note the following:
line = reading a line from a file_list that leads to the data
The filename is called... (16 Replies)
Hello, new to the forums and to awk. Glad to be here. :o
I want to pass two shell (#!/bin/sh) variables through to awk and use them. They will determine where to start and stop text extraction.
The code with the variables hard-coded in awk works fine; the same code, but with the shell... (7 Replies)