1. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have written down a simple perl program to replace a string from a word file. My script does'nt seem to work. Any pointers to make it work will be appreciated. The code is given below. #!/usr/bin/perl while (<>) { open(FILE,$_); while (<FILE>) { s/This/I did it/g; }... (6 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, Need to extract a string from one file and search the same in other files. Ex: I have file1 of hundred lines with no delimiters not even space. I have 3 more files. I should get 1 to 10 characters say substring from each line of file1 and search that string in rest of the files and get... (1 Reply)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I need to write a perl script that should do a search recursively in all the '*.txt' files for the string "ALL -Tcb" and should print only the file names that do not contain this string. (21 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

I want to extract a character from a string. For a C/C++ programmer like me, this would seem to be the most logical and reasonable way--but it doesn't work: $s = "abcdefg"; $c = $s; This way is documented and it works, but it seems clumsy. Is there any simpler way to grab one character out... (7 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi I want to basically sort some data files that I have based on the date. Here is my issue, the date is in the form of "2010-05-24T09:48:55-04" All I really need is the date so perhaps I could sort the number 20100524 in this case. My question is how do extract a number that I can later... (1 Reply)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello All, I am currently having an issue displaying a exponent value using perl, I have a perl program which generates an xls file. This xls is populated with values from a database. But for a certain column which I have made explicitely text and also implemented keep_leading_zeroes()... (3 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi folks, I have a log file with the lines in the below format. Jul 1 23:00:51 10.212.3.251 SS: %SYS-7-CLI_SCHEDULE: some error occured I want to split the line based on the " %SYS-7-CLI_SCHEDULE: " value. The criteria is the should store the word that starts with % i.e., ... (1 Reply)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have two files 1. input.txt 2. keyword.txt input.txt has contents like .src_ref 0 "call.s" 24 first 0x000000 0x5a80 0x0060 BRA.l 0x60 .src_ref 0 "call.s" 30 first 0x000002 0x1bc5 RETI .src_ref 0 "call.s" 31 first 0x000003 0x6840 ... (2 Replies)

9. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

Hi, I need some guidance with understanding this Perl script below. I am not the author of the script and the author has not leave any documentation. I supposed it is meant to be 'easy' if you're a Perl or regex guru. I am having problem understanding what regex to use :confused: The script does... (3 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello. First best wishes for everybody. here is the input file ("$INPUT1") contents : BASH_FUNC_message_begin_script%%=() { local -a L_ARRAY; BASH_FUNC_message_debug%%=() { local -a L_ARRAY; BASH_FUNC_message_end_script%%=() { local -a L_ARRAY; BASH_FUNC_message_error%%=() { local... (3 Replies)