Hello.
Consider the following magic words:
# ls `which adduser`
ls: /usr/sbin/adduser: No such file or directory
#
Hmmm...
Then:
# ls /usr/sbin/adduser
/usr/sbin/adduser
#
Now what?
Unforunately this little sniippet is used in my debian woody server's mysql pre install script.... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I use the command
ls a\b\c\*.txt
from the command line on HP UNIX and it works fine - It lists all files matching *.txt in the a\b\c directory
When embeded in a ksh script
`ls a\b\c\*.txt`
it does not work - I get *.txt not found (even though there are files)
I tried... (10 Replies)
I have a script with a find command using xargs to copy the files found to another directory. The find command is finding the appropriate file, but it's not copying. I've checked permissions, and those are all O.K., so I'm not sure what I'm missing. Any help is greatly appreciated.
This is... (2 Replies)
Portion of my script below :
if ; then
NUMBEROFFEILDS=`cat ${BASE_SCRIPT_LOC}/standardfilecleanup.lst|grep -w ${db_file_path}|awk -F: '{print NF}'`
COUNT=4
while ; do
awk_var="$"`echo $COUNT`
file_name1=`cat ${BASE_SCRIPT_LOC}/standardfilecleanup.lst|grep -w... (1 Reply)
I've been trying to figure this out since last night, and I'm just stumped. The last time I did any shell scripting was 8 years ago on a Unix box, and it was never my strong suit. I'm on a Mac running Leopard now. Here's my dilemma - hopefully someone can point me in the right direction.
I'm... (10 Replies)
I need to sort through a volume that contains video files by access time and delete files that have not been accessed over x days. I have to use the access time as video files are originals that do not get modified, just read
Testing commands on a local test folder...
$ date
Wed Sep 28... (10 Replies)
Hi. I am trying to start a script on my router that will execute even if i log off. To execute the script I write:
nohup ./dslconnection > dslstat.out 2>&1 &
It starts the job:
21968 admin 1604 S /bin/ash ./dslconnection
The problem is that when I log back in the job has been... (6 Replies)
Hi,
I have prepared a script and trying to execute it but not getting expected output. Could you please help and advise what is going wrong.
"If else" part in below script is not working basically.
I am running it on HP-UX.
for i in slpd puma sfmdb
do
echo "******\t$i\t*******"
echo... (10 Replies)
I ran into the following and still do not understand entirely the rationale behind this. If someone could explain why things are as they are I'd be thankful.
The following was tested on AIX 7.1 with ksh88, but i suspect that to be ubiquitous. In an installation routine i had to create a set of... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: bakunin
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ndselect - select lines and fields for numdiff
DESCRIPTION
Usage: ndselect -h|--help|-v|--version or
ndselect [-b N][-e N][-s N][-F N][-L N][-I N][-S IFS][-x][-l PATH][-o PATH] [FILE]
Print to standard output a subset of lines and fields from a given file.
The argument after the options is the name of the file to read from. The complete path of the file should be given, a directory name is
not accepted. If no input file is specified, the program reads from the standard input.
Exit status: 0 in case of normal termination, -1 (255) in case of error
-b, --beginning, --start=N
Set to N the number of the first line to print (The default behavior is to start with line number 1)
-e, --end=N
Set to N the number of the last line that can be printed (The default behavior is to arrive till to the end of the file)
-s, --step=N
Set to N the increment to use when selecting the lines to print (The default value for the increment is 1)
-F, --first-field=N
Set to N the number of the first field to print (The default behavior is to start with field number 1)
-L, --last-field=N
Set to N the number of the last field that can be printed (The default behavior is to arrive till to the end of every line)
-I, --increment=N
Set to N the increment to use when selecting the fields to print (The default value for the increment is 1)
-S, --separator=IFS
Specify the set of characters to use to split the input lines into fields (The default set of characters is space, tab and newline).
-x, --omit-empty-lines
Do not print empty lines
-l, --warnings-to=PATH
Redirect warning and error messages from stderr to the indicated file
-o, --output=PATH
Redirect output from stdout to the indicated file
-h, --help
Show this help message
-v, --version
Show version number, Copyright, Distribution Terms and NO-Warranty
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 Ivano Primi <ivprimi@libero.it>
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later, see <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for ndselect is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and ndselect programs are properly installed at your
site, the command
info numdiff
should give you access to the complete manual.
ndselect 5.6.0 January 2012 NDSELECT(1)