1. Programming

Hello, I have a code like this : pstSimPOIInfo.ppcName = realloc(pstSimPOIInfo.ppcName, (usLen+strlen(CountryName)+4)); memset(pstSimPOIInfo.ppcName, 0, (usLen+strlen(CountryName)+4)); strncpy((char *)pstSimPOIInfo.ppcName, CityName, strlen(CityName)) strcat(pstSimPOIInfo.ppcName, ",");... (3 Replies)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I am working on a script that prompts a user name and creates a list in a username.dat file. Furthermore, I have created a sorted_username.dat file. My question is this: My script uses the word "finished" != finished to break the while loop. How can I avoid having the word "finished" show up in... (5 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, I want to remove last word from a line using Vi. Do we have any vi command for that. line : ss dd ff gg i have to run some vi command which can delete gg from the line Thanks, Ravi Sadani (4 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi champs! I have a fixed width file in which the records appear like this 11111 <fixed spaces such as 6> description for 11111 <fixed spaces such as 6> some more field to the record of 11111 22222 <fixed spaces such as 6> description for 22222 <fixed spaces such as 6> some more field to the... (8 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, In one of the sections in my perl script, I need to remove the 1st character of a word and store in an array.The details are , The original script was , if ( ! defined $inq{$node}{"dmx"} ) { print "INFO: Collecting inq disk information for DMX array on $node.\n"; ... (2 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

hi I would like to ask if someone knows a command or a script on how to rename a multiple file in the directory starting at the end of the filename or at the .extension( i would like to remove the last 11 character before the extension) for example Below is the result of my command ls inside... (5 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

lets say i have a file named ex1 which contain an essay. (a) delete the word "benefit" from the file (b) delete the last 6 characters on each line for the first problem i entered :g/benefit/d but it deletes the whole line please help (3 Replies)

8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Using awk, is there a way to remove newlines in strings that don't contain 1_ at the beginning, but without setting RS="1_" in the BEGIN section and without using a END section as well? input: 1_this is line 1 aaaaaaaa bbbb 1_this is line 2 cccc 1_this is line 3 dddddddddddddd... (7 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

It is very simple to remove a hyphen from a word anywhere in that word using a simple sed command (sed -i 's/-//g' filename), but I am not able to figure out how to do this: For example, apple -orange tree pipe- banana-shake dupe- What my output should look like: apple orange tree... (1 Reply)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

My file has the entries like below... /dev/sds /dev/sdak /dev/sdbc /dev/sdbu I want to make the file like below echo 1 > /sys/block/sds/device/rescan echo 1 > /sys/block/sdak/device/rescan echo 1 > /sys/block/sdbc/device/rescan echo 1 > /sys/block/sdbu/device/rescan (2 Replies)