Hi,
i want to know how to compare string of file with input string
im trying following code:
Code:
file_no=`paste -s -d "||||\n" a.txt | cut -c 1`
#it will return collection number from file
echo "enter number"
read " curr_no"
if [ file_no=curr_no]; then
echo " current number already present"
fi
that's it...
but it was not working...please help to resolve my problem
Thanks in advance.....
Hi guys, I hope you can help me with my problem.
I have a text file that contains lines like this:
78 ANGELO -809.05
79 ANGELO2 -5,000.06
I need to find all occurences of amounts that are negative and replace them with x's
78 ANGELO xxxxxxx
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I would like to find a list of files in a directory less than 2 days old and put them into an array variable. And then search for each file in the array for a matching string say "Return-code= 0". If it matches, then display the array element with a message as "OK".
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I have a list of postal addresses and I need to pull the records that match a list of zip codes in a separate file. The postal addresses are fixed width. The zip code is located in character position 149-157.
Something better than: cat postalfile.txt | grep -f zipcodes.txt
would be great.
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i have a file1 with many lines. i have a script that will let me input a string. for example, APPLE. what i need to do is to copy all lines from file1 where i can find APPLE or any string that i specify and paste in on file 2
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Hi,
I did some research but cannot find the right solution so hopefully someone can help me here.
I have a long string format like:
VAR=111:aaaa,222:bbb,333:ccc
it could be
VAR=111:aaa,222:bbb,333:ccc,444:ddd, etc
what I looking for is eg.
if I give ccc, it will return me 333... (2 Replies)
i am having file like this
#!/bin/bash
read -p 'Username: ' uservar
match='<color="red" />'
text='this is only a test
so please be patient
<color="red" />'
echo "$text" | sed "s/$match/&$uservar\g"
so desireble output what i want is if user type MARIA
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I wish to search and delete all lines in /app/Jenkins/deploy.txt having this filename string /app/Jenkins/file2.mrt as entry:
I'm using : colon as delimiter in sed command as I'm dealing with file paths.
Below is the command I was expecting to work.
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LEARN ABOUT PHP
str_pad
STR_PAD(3) 1 STR_PAD(3)str_pad - Pad a string to a certain length with another stringSYNOPSIS
string str_pad (string $input, int $pad_length, [string $pad_string = " "], [int $pad_type = STR_PAD_RIGHT])
DESCRIPTION
This functions returns the $input string padded on the left, the right, or both sides to the specified padding length. If the optional
argument $pad_string is not supplied, the $input is padded with spaces, otherwise it is padded with characters from $pad_string up to the
limit.
PARAMETERS
o $input
- The input string.
o $pad_length
- If the value of $pad_length is negative, less than, or equal to the length of the input string, no padding takes place.
o $pad_string
-
Note
The $pad_string may be truncated if the required number of padding characters can't be evenly divided by the $pad_string's
length.
o $pad_type
- Optional argument $pad_type can be STR_PAD_RIGHT, STR_PAD_LEFT, or STR_PAD_BOTH. If $pad_type is not specified it is assumed to
be STR_PAD_RIGHT.
RETURN VALUES
Returns the padded string.
EXAMPLES
Example #1
str_pad(3) example
<?php
$input = "Alien";
echo str_pad($input, 10); // produces "Alien "
echo str_pad($input, 10, "-=", STR_PAD_LEFT); // produces "-=-=-Alien"
echo str_pad($input, 10, "_", STR_PAD_BOTH); // produces "__Alien___"
echo str_pad($input, 6 , "___"); // produces "Alien_"
?>
PHP Documentation Group STR_PAD(3)
10-10-2011
Matching string from input to string of file
