Hi There!
Apologies if this has been asked previously but I couldn't find the answer I was hoping for.
Basically, all I want to do is compare the OS X version against the version that I require in my script. So I'm retrieving the OS version using defaults read, but how can I compare this... (10 Replies)
Hi,
I have a need to rename a list of files with a suffix .v1, .v2, v3 etc. and would like to keep a maximum of 6 versions.
example:
I have abc.sql in my current dir. and as part of a successful completion of another script I want to move abc.sql -> abc.sql.v1.
When I run the original... (3 Replies)
Hey guys, I have a file that contains the following:
366 K
364 Q
12 UB
7 INC. P
4 Law
2 LAMB
2 High
1 QEG
1 OF
1 LC
1 B
As you can see, it's already sorted by numerical order, how do I sort it again, breaking the ties by using the alphabetical order of the second column, but... (2 Replies)
Hi to all.
I'm trying to sort this with the Unix command sort.
user1:12345678:3.5:2.5:8:1:2:3
user2:12345679:4.5:3.5:8:1:3:2
user3:12345687:5.5:2.5:6:1:3:2
user4:12345670:5.5:2.5:5:3:2:1
user5:12345671:2.5:5.5:7:2:3:1
I need to get this:
user3:12345687:5.5:2.5:6:1:3:2... (7 Replies)
Hello,
okey so my script is using 4 variables that are either empty or numbers in the following format:
NUMBER_1 NUMBER_2 NUMBER_3 NUMBER_4
So they're basically separated by a space and I need to echo the lowest number, so far I've been doing it like this:
echo "2 3 1 3" | tr " "... (6 Replies)
I just upgraded my laptop from Fedora 13 to 14, and normally, before I do the upgrade (Fresh install) I run an rpm command to make a list of all the packages I have installed, but without the version and architectures specified, so that I can just feed that list to yum after the upgrade to... (2 Replies)
Hello all -
I am to this forum and fairly new in learning unix and finding some difficulty in preparing a small shell script. I am trying to make script to sort all the files given by user as input (either the exact full name of the file or say the files matching the criteria like all files... (3 Replies)
Although i tried multiple option i couldn't find a way to get the rigt ouput.
Say i have the following data
cat file.txt
C request
C response
C request
C response
The output should look like (9 Replies)
I have files like this:
1
3
4
6
14
3
6
I want to extract the highest number. I have tried using
cat filename | sort
but then 9 would become higher than 14.
So how do I sort? (1 Reply)