1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I wanted to cut a specific portion from given string. How would I do that? Example: /u09/core/inbound/abc.txt is my string. I want abc.txt in a variable. Please help me. Regards, Dhaval (3 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all suppose i have a string "abacus sabre", i need to replace occurences 'ab' with 'cd' and i need to store this result into same string and i need to return this result from script to the calling function, where as the string is passed from calling function. i tried like this ... (1 Reply)

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

hi I have the input as follows ABC =893 JKL = "jee" alias PQR = 9833 alias STUVE = "kuiue" I should be able to print as follows ABC JKL alias PQR alias STUVE Thanks Suresh (7 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I have a string assinged to a varaible as below. FILE=/var/adm/message If $FILE is the value where it stores the path of message file. I would like to extract the location of the file message as below LOCATION=/var/adm FILE may have value like /var/adm/xxxx/message ... (2 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi mates, I am doing a script in ksh. I have the following string: /opt/one/two/four/five/myFile.txt And I have a variable: echo "${variable}" -> /opt/one/two/ I would like to have just the string: four/five/myFile.txt What is the better way to do that? Thanks in... (3 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a string something like "/opt/src/default.cfg" OR /opt/src/common/one This whole string stored in an array. The problem is this string is not constant and it will keep on changing as lot of strings are stored in the array and it will be look like :- case 1 /opt/src/default.cfg ... (8 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi I need to Replace a part of string in between one complete string. For e.g.. in the file the value is as: jobnm_$code_xyz_001 In script we are having a variable code=$3, where $3=ab final output should be jobnm_ab_xyz_001. But it is not working. Your help will be... (1 Reply)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

i have something like this... echo "teCertificateId" | awk -F'Id' '{ print $1 }' | awk -F'te' '{ print $2 }' Certifica the awk should remove 'te' only if it is present at the start of the string.. anywhere else it should ignore it. expected output is Certificate (7 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, I have few files named. abcd.docx abcde.doc abcdef.temp I wish if I could extract the string upto .(dot),and not the extension. Thanks a lot. Kind regards, Indranil. (4 Replies)

10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, I like to intersect two files based on their first columns. Here is the code which does the trick for me: awk 'NR==FNR{A;next}$1 in A' file1 file2 However, this only looks for exact matches between the two files in the first column. I need them to be printed even if part of the string... (10 Replies)