I know this script is crummy, but I was just messing around.. how do I get sed's insert command to allow variable expansion to show the filename?
#!/bin/bash
filename=`echo $0`
/usr/bin/sed '/#include/ {
i\
the filename is `$filename`
}' $1
exit 0 (8 Replies)
When script is running you only see when some of the commands are not successfull.
Is there a way to see which command are executed and to show the substitution of variables as every line is executed ? (3 Replies)
For example I have variable like below
echo $OUTPUT
/some/path/`uname -n`
when I try to use the variable OUTPUT like below
cd $OUTPUT or cd ${OUTPUT}
I am getting bad substituion error message
$ cd $OUTPUT
ksh: cd: bad substitution
$ cd ${OUTPUT}
ksh: cd: bad substitution
... (1 Reply)
Hi Jim,
The following script is in working state. But i m having one more problem with awk cmd. Could you tell me how to use any variable inside awk or how to take any variable value outside awk.
My problem is i want to maintain one property file in which i am declaring variable value into that... (12 Replies)
Hi,
I am trying to do the following thing
var='date'
$var
Above command substitutes date for and in turn runs the date command and i am getting the todays date value.
I am trying to do the same thing as following, but facing some problems,
unique_host_pro="sed -e ' /#/d'... (3 Replies)
Hello All,
I don't write scripts very often, and in this case I am stumped, although it may be a bug in the version of bash I have to use (it's not my system).
I want to extract a specific string snippet from a block of text (coming from a log file) that is dependent on a bunch of other... (1 Reply)
#!/bin/bash
#...
for i in `ls -c1 /usr/share/applications`
do
name="cat $i | grep ^Name= | cut -d = -f2"
echo $name
#...
done
Now inside name as output is present:
while i want only the result of the command.
Ideally i would like obtain that information using only bash ... or... (8 Replies)
Hello all. This is my first post/question on this site.
I’m a new Systems Analyst with previous experience with BASH. Although now I'm using AIX, and I’m trying to get a feel for the Korn shell (for those of you that don’t know AIX only uses the KORN shell).
I hope I put this into the correct... (10 Replies)
Hi,
I am not able to get output for find command if there are variables defined inside -name option .
Please check below example
1)
###VARIABLES DEFINED
process="fast"
temperature="125c"
voltage="0p935v"
2) I don't get output for below find command
find -L <PATH> -type f \( -name... (2 Replies)
Is it possible to store a command inside a variable?
i want this piece to be stored inside a variable, so i can use it later in a different command
$u | cut -d " " -f 2
var="$u | cut -d " " -f 2"
eval $var
I tried to use eval but I receive this error:
-f 2: command not found
... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: velos
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
mencal
mencal(1) 1 mencal(1)NAME
mencal - menstruation calendar
SYNOPSIS
mencal [options] [file1 file2 ... -c CONF1 -c CONF2 ...]
DESCRIPTION
Display options:
-m, --monday
draw monday as first weekday (sunday is default)
-1 current month (default)
-3 previous, current and next month
-y [YYYY]
all-year calendar (default YYYY is current year)
-q, --quiet
no top information will be printed
-n, --nocolor
noncolored output
-i, --icolor COLOR
intersection color (default red)
available colors: red, green, blue, yellow, violet, cyan, shiny, bold
mencal configuration:
-c, --config
s=[YYYY]MMDD,l=LL,d=DD,n=NAME,f=FILE,c=COLOR
The second argument is a comma separated list of options. No spaces are allowed in this list. If no name is specified, 'Unknown' is
used. Various -c options or filenames can be set.
s,start=[YYYY]MMDD
start day of period (default current day)
l,length=LL
length of period in days (default 28)
d,duration=D
duration of menstruation in days (default 4)
n,name=NAME
name of subject
f,file=FILE
filename to save configuration to (see section FILES)
only menstruation related variables will be saved
c,color=COLOR
color used for menstruation days
available colors: red, green, blue, yellow, violet, cyan, shiny, bold default color is red, with '-n' switch color settings are
ignored
Info options:
-h, --help
print help
-V, --version
print version information
FILES :
$HOME/.mencalrc - the default configuration file that is automatically loaded
AUTHOR :
(C) 2002 C. McCohy
e-mail: <mccohy@kyberdigi.cz>
Word-Wide-Web: http://www.kyberdigi.cz/projects/mencal/english
This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page (but may be
used by others).
HISTORY
22 March 2002 - Originally written by Amaya Rodrigo <amaya@debian.org>.
24 Apr 2002 - New manpage contributed by Pablo S. Torralba <psanchez@skyrealms.org>.
Amaya Rodrigo <amaya@debian.org> is now responsible for developing and maintaining this manual page. Comments and suggestions are greatly
wellcome.
mencal Menstruation calendar mencal(1)