Hi all-
I have a variable that contains a web page:
echo $STUFF
<html> <head> <title>my page</title></head> <body> blah blah etc..
Can I use the shell's parameter expansion abilities to remove just the tags?
I thought that FIXHTML=${STUFF//<*>/} might do it, but it didn't seem to... (2 Replies)
Say you have this numeric variable that can be set by the user but you never want it to leave a certain range when it gets printed. How could you use parameter expansion such that it will never expand outside of that boundary? Thanks
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Hi -
I am trying to do a simple config file with known variable names in it, e.g.:
contents of config file a.conf: -a
-b $work
-c $host
simplified contents of bash script file: work='trunk'
host='alaska'
opts=$(tr '\n' ' ' < a.conf)
opts="$opts $*"
mycommand $opts arg1 arg2
The... (3 Replies)
Hello experts,
I am exploring parameter expansion, and trying to cut the fields in a URL.
Following is the requirement:
I have
// abc.nnt /dir1/dir2/dir3/dir4/somefile.java
What i need to get is the path after dir3, and dir3 will be passed.
output that i need is... (1 Reply)
I'm using an Ubuntu machine and expansion is not working properly. What would cause this? Do I need to check for any particular bash packages?
$ ipcs -m | grep $USER | awk '{printf "%s ",$2}'
$ ipcs -m | grep UNF | awk '{printf "%s ",$2}'
294912 1048577 425986 688131 786436 1245189... (14 Replies)
I have made the following examples that print various parameter expansions
text: iv-hhz-sac/hpac/hhz.d/iv.hpac..hhz.d.2016.250.070018.sac
(text%.*): iv-hhz-sac/hpac/hhz.d/iv.hpac..hhz.d.2016.250.070018
(text%%.*): iv-hhz-sac/hpac/hhz
(text#*.): d/iv.hpac..hhz.d.2016.250.070018.sac... (2 Replies)
#!/bin/bash
SNMPW='/usr/bin/snmpwalk'
while read h i
do
loc=$($SNMPW -v3 -u 'Myusername' -l authPriv -a SHA -A 'Password1' -x AES -X 'Password2' $i sysLocation.0 2>/dev/null)
loc=${loc:-" is not snmpable."}
loc=${loc##*: }
loc=${loc//,/}
echo "$i,$h,$loc"
done < $1
My question is ... ... (1 Reply)
I am trying to become more fluent with the interworking of bash and minimize the number of external calls.
Sample Data. This will be the response of the snmp query.
SNMPv2-MIB::sysName.0 = STRING: SomeHostName
SNMPv2-MIB::sysObjectID.0 = OID: SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.9.1.1745... (5 Replies)
Example data
$ ls *somehost*
10.10.10.10_somehost1.xyz.com.log
11.11.11.11_somehost2.xyz.com.log
#!/bin/bash
#FILES="*.log"
FILES=${FILES:-*.log}
for x in $FILES
do
ip="${x%%_*}" # isolate IP address
x="${x##*_}" # isolate hostname
hnam="${x%.*}" # Remove the ".log"... (2 Replies)
Hello All,
Could you please do help me here as I would like to perform parameter expansion in shell over a parameter expansion.
Let's say I have following variable.
path="/var/talend/nat/cdc"
Now to get only nat I could do following.
path1="${path%/*}"
path1="${path1##*/}"
Here... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: RavinderSingh13
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