1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi all, i'm new here and to Unix and have a question about more help then I am getting. I live basically in Portland, OR and am attending college and have to take some Unix classes for my degree. Well class is fine and the help from the instructor is ok but I would like to receive more help then... (5 Replies)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

i want to redirect output of one command as the command line argument of another script for example, say i would run this command: find . -xdev -type f -size +4096 -exec ls -al {} \; i wan to be able to do something like: echo +4096 | find . -xdev -type f -size ****** -exec... (3 Replies)

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

How to find the last argument in a argument line? (4 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Can someone please help me with this SHELL script? I need to create a script that gets a positive number n as an argument. The script must calculate the factorial of its argument. In other words, it must calculate n!=1x2x3x...xn. Note that 0!=1. Here is a start but I have no clue how to... (3 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a flat file sample like this - "COURSE"|"ddddd " " dddd"|"sssddd sdsdsdsdx" dddddddd ffffff "aaaaa" dddddddd ffffff sdsdsd"|"xxxxxxx"| "COURSE"|"ffff " " bbbb"|"lllll"| The delimiter is pipe character (|) and the text are enclosed in double quotes... (5 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

If ($argv == “-debug”) then Echo “in loop” Endif But this is not working. If I modify this code and remove “-“, then it works. Similarly I am getting problem using grep command also Grep “-debug” Filename Can someone please help me on how to resolve these... (1 Reply)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All , Is there any way to replace the pipe ( | ) with the broken pipe (0xA6) in unix (1 Reply)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, Is there any method thorugh which script can take argument if pass otherwise if argument doesn't pass then it takes the argument from the configuration file i.e I am workiing on a script which will run through crontab and the script will chekout the code ,zip and copy to the... (3 Replies)

9. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hi All, I am running the script VBoxManage list vms |sed 's/"//g' | cut -d " " -f1 > har1out.mytxt result=`cat har1out.mytxt | grep $1' echo $result echo $1 { if then echo pass else echo fail fi (2 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi guys, I need to know how i can ignore Pipe '|' if Pipe is coming as a column in Pipe delimited file for eg: file 1: xx|yy|"xyz|zzz"|zzz|12... using below awk command awk 'BEGIN {FS=OFS="|" } print $3 i would get xyz But i want as : xyz|zzz to consider as whole column... (13 Replies)