Your problem is that you are reading it into a variable and the shell is doing glob expansion on the asterisks as the variable is expanded on the echo. Try this:
Eliminates the use of the variable, and should not cause any problems with file name globbing.
Again, I am in need of some advice.
Earlier I was shown how to have awk create folders for me. That was so cool and helpful, but now I am exploring the posibilities of combining operations with bash scripts.
Now, I am creating the directories with the bash script, and then I want awk to... (1 Reply)
i have to print first n lines of a file. how can i do that without using head command. for some reason i do not want to use Head. is there a way to get that result using awk or sed?.
i an using this on korn shell for AIX
Thanks.. (7 Replies)
Hello,
This is my first post and I've just started on UNIX in school.
A file name "list" has the following content (excluding the numbers and the bottom part):
1 2 3 4 5 6
0123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
IT ... (1 Reply)
Hello People,
Need some assistance/guidance.
OUTLINE:
Two files (File1 and File2)
File1 has some ids such as
009463_3922_1827
897654_8764_5432
File2 has things along the lines of:
Query= 009463_3922_1827 length=252
(252 letters)
More stufff here
... (5 Replies)
Hi,
A very Good Evening to All,
I am writing a script for my application. I have a file with 1000 lines. Among that 1000 lines i am searching for a particular string. And from that string i need to pull all the data in to a seperate file.
For example the contents of my file is as below.
... (4 Replies)
I need help in printing multiple lines using a grep command.
The situation is like this.
I have a file that contains large number of lines
Now I need to find the the lines in the file such that if the word "AllServiceType" is found then the next line also gets printed.
Does anyone... (6 Replies)
Hi !
I need some help with a script I am writing.
I am trying to compare two files, the first file being in this format :
Header1
Text1-1
Text1-2
Text1-3
Header2
Text2-1
etc...
For each header, I want to check if it appears in the second file, and if it is the case print the header... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I need just to print the values of second and fourth column from a file
# cat dispaly
id Name Std Specialist
1 sss X mathematics
2 uyt IX geography
3 vcd X English
i tried with some NF command.. I think am wrong.. Is there anyother way to print my requirement (3 Replies)
GM,
I have an issue at work, which requires a simple solution. But, after multiple attempts, I have not been able to hit on the code needed.
I am assuming that sed, awk or even perl could do what I need.
I have an application that adds extra blank page feeds, for multiple reports, when... (7 Replies)
This is an extract from a large file. The lines that start with fc are ports on a fabric switch. In between each fc port there is information about the port.
fc2/12 is up
Port description is SEIEDISCOVER-3
Speed is 4 Gbps
fc2/13 is down (Administratively down)
fc2/14 is up
Port... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: kieranfoley
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LEARN ABOUT V7
shift
shift(1) User Commands shift(1)NAME
shift - shell built-in function to traverse either a shell's argument list or a list of field-separated words
SYNOPSIS
sh
shift [n]
csh
shift [variable]
ksh
* shift [n]
DESCRIPTION
sh
The positional parameters from $n+1 ... are renamed $1 ... . If n is not given, it is assumed to be 1.
csh
The components of argv, or variable, if supplied, are shifted to the left, discarding the first component. It is an error for the variable
not to be set or to have a null value.
ksh
The positional parameters from $n+1 $n+1 ... are renamed $1 ..., default n is 1. The parameter n can be any arithmetic expression that
evaluates to a non-negative number less than or equal to $#.
On this man page, ksh(1) commands that are preceded by one or two * (asterisks) are treated specially in the following ways:
1. Variable assignment lists preceding the command remain in effect when the command completes.
2. I/O redirections are processed after variable assignments.
3. Errors cause a script that contains them to abort.
4. Words, following a command preceded by ** that are in the format of a variable assignment, are expanded with the same rules as a vari-
able assignment. This means that tilde substitution is performed after the = sign and word splitting and file name generation are not
performed.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO csh(1), ksh(1), sh(1), attributes(5)SunOS 5.10 15 Apr 1994 shift(1)