This is a useless use of cat. In this case the useless cat doesn't just waste CPU time, it also prevents variables from being modified because the things after the pipe execute in a subshell. Remove the useless cat and it should work:
Hey,
I've got a RH9 box running telnet-server 0.17-25. Now i don't know what the problem is and i've been reading all night trying to find somthing like it. I am able to open a telnet session on the box using localhost and 10.10.10.6(machines address) but if i try to do it from another... (7 Replies)
I'm trying to help convert my boss over to Linux. He has an HP/Compaq PC on which he installed Fedora Core 4 on. It's got a Linksys wireless card in it and we're using the NDIS wrapper to load the Windows driver for the chipset on that card. 'iwconfig' sees the card. We can configure the card. ... (1 Reply)
we migrated from a system with HPUX B.11.0 to HPUX 11.23 i64
the new server is the same IP as the old server. the old server is renumbered to something else to avoid conflict.
on the old system, we had a user named "ftp" . There is one person who daily will ftp files to the host using this... (15 Replies)
i want to print ODD lines like first ,third then fifth and so on
234,567,ABC,KJL
234,565,ABD,KJL
234,568,ABE,KJL
234,560,ABF,KJL
234,563,ABG,KJL
234,562,ABH,KJL
O/P will be like
234,567,ABC,KJL ----->first liine
234,568,ABE,KJL ----->third line
234,563,ABG,KJL ----->fifth line... (6 Replies)
Hello All,
i am a newbie and need some help when reading a csv file in a bourne shell script. I want to read 10 lines, then wait for a minute and then do a reading of another 10 lines and so on in the same way. I want to do this till the end of file.
Any inputs are appreciated
... (3 Replies)
Hi friends,
I am looking for sed command/script that would search for a given fixed pattern on odd lines and then if it matches, prints the matching pattern and the next line. For example, in the example below, i am looking for pattern 0 and 1011 on odd lines.
########## start of example file... (10 Replies)
Hello people,
I am trying with sed to insert some text at the beginning of each odd line of a file but no luck. Can you please help. Awk is also suitable but I am not very familiar with it.
Thank you in advance for any help. (7 Replies)
Hello,
I'm here again asking for your precious help.
I'm writing some code to convert csv files to html.
I want to highlight header and also I want to have rows with alternate colors.
So far this is my work###Let's format first line only with some color
cat $fileIN".tmp1" | sed '1... (7 Replies)
In the below directory I am trying to delete all lines with a .bam extention that have the pattern IonCode_ followed by an even number. I am also trying to delete all lines with a .fastq extention that have the pattern IonCode_ followed by an odd number. I was going to use find but can see all... (6 Replies)