Firstly - aplogies to Vino
I need to check wether or not a variable called DATE is actually a date by doing the following - checking it is all numeric and secondly checking if it is 8 digits long.
Any help appreciated (10 Replies)
How could I check if a string variable contains at least (or only) 2 characters, and check and make sure that the string does not contain any numeric digits?...I need to know how to do this as simple as possible. and I am using the Ksh shell. Thanks. (1 Reply)
Could anyone help with the following enquiry.. i have a file in the following format:
ID .... VALUE
A001 .... 100
B002 .... 200
A004 .... 300
B006 .... 100
A997 .... 200
B776 .... ... (13 Replies)
hi
i am writing a hangman script and am having trouble checking the correct letters against the word
i need the script to compare the word against the letters guessed that are correct so once all the letters within the word have been guessed it will alow me to create a wining senario
this must... (1 Reply)
i'm trying to make a script to simply add numbers together
for example i have a file script file called add
add 1 2 3 4 5
15
however i want the user to put at least 3 numbers so i did this
if
then
echo "please enter more than two numbers"
exit 1
fi
but it's telling me i have... (3 Replies)
I want to check where our programmers are using "delete" instead of "delete" in their C++ code:
grep -r delete *cpp | grep -v
However, this statement and variations thereof (escaping with backslash (\), single quotes ('), double quotes ("), accolades ({)) always lead to the following message:... (2 Replies)
I need to write an Unix script to report the number of SQL files in my home directory, ending with .sql . The script should, also, be checking whether there is a file with an underscore in its name. If that is the case, the underscore should be converted to a dash (‐); for example... (1 Reply)
I am having a zipped file which has the following URL contents -
98.70.217.222 - - "GET /liveupdate-aka.symantec.com/1340071490jtun_nav2k8enn09m25.m25?h=abcdefgh HTTP/1.1" 200 159229484 "-" "hBU1OhDsPXknMepDBJNScBj4BQcmUz5TwAAAAA" "-"
In this line here is we only need to consider the... (4 Replies)
Hello, I am working with some very large files (upwards of 1M records). I have written code to parse out a lot of the data and am using awk rather than a built-in "while read LINE" for performance (I have tested both ways). That said, I now need to read each of these incoming lines, check the ninth... (2 Replies)
My question is basically as the title says. How can I check a user inputted string is only certain characters long (for example, 3 characters long) and how do I check a user inputted string only contains certain characters (for example, it should only contain the characters 'u', 'a', 'g', and 'c')... (4 Replies)