Good guess on my part!
The script is riddled with carriage-return characters (showing as \r). These usually come from using Microsoft editors (such as Notepad).
A unix text file has every line terminated with a line-feed character.
A MSDOS text file has every line terminated with two characters carriage-return then line-feed. This is a left-over from one of the greatest MSDOS mistakes.
To fix your script we can use the unix "tr" command to remove the MSDOS c**p .
When you are happy with "newscriptname", you can of course issue:
Don't forget to check your solidii in the final script!
Just in case you don't get what is happening here. The carriage return character moves the cursor on your screen to the far left. Thus your field you expected to be on the right hand side was jumped to the left hand side and overwrote part of what had been already displayed. It's an effect on the screen. The "sed -l" version of the output from your script showed that the script itself is basically sound but that you need to pay some attention to solidii and the extra space character. The carriage-return characters just messed-up the output.
Important: You are destined to become a great Systems Administrator. You can present a problem clearly and follow instructions. Good luck in your future career.
Btw: Post #3 mentions csh. This Shell has no place in unix Systems Administration. My advice, don't use it.
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hey guys..
probably a simple question but i cant seem to find any info on it.
i have a small array of strings, and i want to concatenate the contents of the array into one big string.
any ideas on how i can do this?
cheers. (2 Replies)
Hi all,
Think this is a pretty simple problem, but I've been thinking about it for a few days. Let's say that I'm going to have to output the contents of a file as the body of a mailx message.
I'll probably do this: cat <filename> | mailx <extra commands>
However, how do I go about doing... (1 Reply)
Hi,
Well as the title says, I have an array of strings (delimited by null). The length of the array is variable and length of each string is variable as well. What I need is one huge string with the original strings in the array separated by spaces.
For example is an array is such that array... (12 Replies)
I m new to shell scripting and what i want is take as an i/p from command line the name of the file and inside my script i should redirect the o/p of my few commands to this file concatenated with .txt
for example if i give
./linux filename
i should get the o/p in filename.txt
i need to... (2 Replies)
Hello,
I'm trying to run a program on a directory (traverse sub dirs too) through my csh script. Arrays support in CSH is appalling, something like associative arrays would have helped me do this so much easier.
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I have these
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When I echo $str1, it displays the new line character properly.
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Hi, all,
I tried to write a simple shell script as follow:
#!/bin/bash
# What want to do in bash is following
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Hello All Unix Users,
I am still new to Unix, however I am eager to learn it..
I have 2 files, some lines have some matching substrings, I would like to concatenate these lines into one lines, leaving other untouched. Here below is an example for that..
File 1 (fasta file):
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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS
shell
shell(1F) FMLI Commands shell(1F)NAME
shell - run a command using shell
SYNOPSIS
shell command [command] ...
DESCRIPTION
The shell function concatenate its arguments, separating each by a space, and passes this string to the shell ($SHELL if set, otherwise
/usr/bin/sh).
EXAMPLES
Example 1 A sample output of shell command.
Since the Form and Menu Language does not directly support background processing, the shell function can be used instead.
`shell "build prog > /dev/null &"`
If you want the user to continue to be able to interact with the application while the background job is running, the output of an exe-
cutable run by shell in the background must be redirected: to a file if you want to save the output, or to /dev/null if you don't want to
save it (or if there is no output), otherwise your application may appear to be hung until the background job finishes processing.
shell can also be used to execute a command that has the same name as an FMLI built-in function.
NOTES
The arguments to shell will be concatenate using spaces, which may or may not do what is expected. The variables set in local environments
will not be expanded by the shell because "local" means "local to the current process."
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
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SEE ALSO sh(1), attributes(5)SunOS 5.11 5 Jul 1990 shell(1F)