1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello everyone... please help if you can -- I'm stumped. Making this work will save me hours of manual labor: I need to search file2 for pattern in file1. If pattern found append file2 line to file3. If pattern not found append a blank line to file3. file1 contents example: 123 456 789... (6 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hey gang, I have: XXZZXXZZXX 123 asdaffggh dfghyrgr ertyhdhh XXZZXXZZXX 234 sdg XXZZXXZZXX 456 gfg fggfd That is all on one line. Very simply put I want to do is something like: sed s'/XXZZXXZZXX /\n/g' or tr 'XXZZXXZZXX ' '/n' I have tried various things but can never get the desired... (6 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, guys. I have one question: How can I search for a line with certain string in it and then insert a string into this line? For example: There is a file called shadow, the contents of it are below: ************************** ... yuanz:VIRADxMsadfDF/Q:0:0:50:7:::... (9 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all, I've googling around forum regarding my prob, the nearest would same as thread tittled Insert blank line if grep not found, but she/he did not mention the solution, so I would like to request your help I've this task, to search in file2 based on pattern in file1 and output it to... (4 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I am trying to put together a Korn Shell script to insert at a specific line. The system we use is SunOS 5.10 I can get the line number by using:- num=`sed -n '/export ENV/=' ./tmp.file` Not getting much headway using the above variable's value to insert - export SYBASE=/opt/sybase15... (5 Replies)

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi all, can some one help me out file 1 i have 06/01 3:14 d378299 06/01 8:10 d642036 06/01 10:51 d600441 06/01 10:52 d600441 06/01 11:11 d607339 06/01 11:49 d398706 something like this and in file named list i have ( there is space btwn 06/01 and 11:49 and d398706) d607339... (5 Replies)

7. Solaris

Hi, Anyone can help me in Solaris command on how to insert a file at specific line. I want file1.sql content to be inserted on file2.sh after "recover database using backup controlfile until cancel". # file1.sql /archivelogs/927_822338133.arc /archivelogs/671_822338107.arc... (3 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All I'm trying to insert a new line at the before each comment line in a file. Comment lines start with '#-----' there are other comments with in lines but I don't want a new line there. Example file: blah blah #do not insert here #this is a comment blah #some more #another comment... (10 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, I am trying to write a shell script where it should insert character 'I' in 180th position of each line(except first and last line) of the file. Below is the script for file in /home/test/bharat/*.RET do # Process file echo "File Name=" $file #l_fileName="${file##*/}" ... (19 Replies)

10. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

Hi, I'm trying to add a new line after finding a specific String. That is my string: volumes: - ${DIR_WORK}/loadbalancer/html:/var/www/html and I want to change that file to: volumes: - ${DIR_WORK}/loadbalancer/html:/var/www/html extra_hosts: -... (4 Replies)