08-01-2011
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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
I have the following to remove spaces from beginning and end of a string.
infile=`echo "$infilename" | sed 's/^ *//;s/ *$//`
How do I modify the above code to remove spaces from beginning, end and in the middle of the string also.
ex:
... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: radhika
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2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
If have a problem with this command:
name="toe der"
echo $name | sed -e 's/]//g'
it will become:
toeder
how to make it back to original? (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: elenatec
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello and thx for reading this
I'm using sed to remove only the leading spaces in a file
bash-280R# cat foofile
some text
some text
some text
some text
some text
bash-280R#
bash-280R# sed 's/^ *//' foofile > foofile.use
bash-280R# cat foofile.use
some text
some text
some text... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: laser
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4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Anyone know how to represent tabs when doing subsitutions in sed? I have tried using \t but it doesn't seem to work. (11 Replies)
Discussion started by: handak9
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
if the answer is obvious, sorry, I'm new here.
anyway, I'm using tr to encrypt with rot-13:
echo `cat $script | tr 'a-zA-Z' 'n-za-mN-ZA-M'` > $script
it works, but it removes any consecutive spaces so that there is just one space between words. I've had this problem before while using sed to... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: Trichopterus
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
i am getting count from oracle 11g by spooling it to a file.
Now there are some newline characters and blank spaces i need to remove these.
pl provide me a awk/sed solution.
the spooled file is attached.
i tried this.. but not getting req o/p (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: rishav
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello all,
I have a problem with a bash script. It contains an MySQL query, which when I run it 'as is', executes without a problem.
When, however, I try to get it to assign its output to a variable, using the backtick, I get errors.
So ..
/usr/bin/mysql -N -B mydatabase -e 'SELECT... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: davidm123SED
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8. Emergency UNIX and Linux Support
Hi, I have data that looks similar to this:
In which the sentences are written horizontally and the beginning of a sentence is indicated by a 1 in the first column and the number increments until the last item of the sentence. The end of the sentence and the beginning of the next is then indicate... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: owwow14
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
hi all ,
i had the below sed command to append header at the starting of my output file ....
sed -i -e '1i saikumar suresh hemanth' output.txt
i want to append spaces to the Name saikumar how can i append with in this command ....? (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: hemanthsaikumar
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
The following command works echo "some text with spaces" | sh -c 'sed -e 's/t//g''But this doesn't and should echo "some text with spaces" | sh -c 'sed -e 's/ //g''Any ideas? (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: Tribe
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script(1) User Commands script(1)
NAME
script - make record of a terminal session
SYNOPSIS
script [-a] [filename]
DESCRIPTION
The script utility makes a record of everything printed on your screen. The record is written to filename. If no file name is given, the
record is saved in the file typescript. See WARNINGS.
The script command forks and creates a sub-shell, according to the value of $SHELL, and records the text from this session. The script ends
when the forked shell exits or when Control-d is typed.
OPTIONS
The following option is supported:
-a Appends the session record to filename, rather than overwriting it.
NOTES
script places everything that appears on the screen in filename, including prompts.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|CSI |Enabled |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
attributes(5)
WARNINGS
script can pose a security risk when used in directories that are writable by other users (for example, /tmp), especially when run by a
privileged user, that is, root. Be sure that typescript is not a link before running script.
SunOS 5.10 30 Jan 2004 script(1)