Without understanding what your ultimate goal is this might not be the best approach; there might be better ways of processing your file. However, with what you've posted, you could preprocess the file before it's given to the tr command. Replace your useless use of cat (Useless Use of Cat Award) with a grep:
This should delete all lines from the input which start with the leading two dashes.
For future reference, your use of cat is uneeded (useless) as you can redirect the file straight into the tr command:
Last edited by agama; 05-06-2012 at 12:11 PM..
Reason: clarification
hi
I face the problem the if else statement dint return correct result for me
my script as below:
#!/bin/ksh
sqlplus -s /nolog <<EOF
connect databaseuser/password
column num new_value num format 9999
set head off
select count(*) num from table1;
exit num
EOF
if ; then
echo "$?"... (6 Replies)
I have a file containing records seperated by delimiter '|'.A record is contained on 2 or 3 lines. Now I need a shell script which could write all records with in two '|' character in one line.....for example.....
|R1........................R1
R1..........................R1... (2 Replies)
Hi All ,
I am new to shell scripting.
i have a shell script(which is executed as a super user) , i want to it to do one more job for me. ie mounting a directory over other using lofs .
i have done it manually using
1) using mount command
mount -F lofs /export/home/dju /dju
2)... (4 Replies)
Hi All,
I have written a korn script (code pasted below). It is giving the error while debugging "new.sh: syntax error at line 62: `end of file' unexpected".
I have re-written the whole code in VI and explored all help related to this error on this Unix forum and tried it. Somehow, I could... (7 Replies)
Hello.
I have a file (old.txt) that I need to copy into another file (new.txt).
Each line on old.txt ends with CR/LF but the position of CR/LF varies from one record to another.
I need to copy each line of record to new.txt and move CR/LF in pos 165.
Can I use awk to achieve this? How?... (8 Replies)
Hi,
As i am new to this forum i dont really know where to place this doubt i am facing ,Please consider this
In this code i am connecting two time to two different server / database and getting the .sql file
where am i going wrong please guide..... me.
thanks a lot
if ; then
echo... (2 Replies)
Hi Folks,
I was given a task to append three IP's at the end of a specific (and unique) line within a file on multiple servers.
I was not able to do that with the help of a script. All I could was:
for i in server1 server2 server3 server4
do
ssh $i
done
I know 'sed' could be used to... (5 Replies)
Hi,
Since today, with csh or tcsh, if I do 'ls files* > list',
every lines end with an extra space!
What happenned?
What can I do to go back when there was no extra space?
If I change to bash, there's no extra space.
Thanks,
Patrick
---------- Post updated at 03:19 PM... (1 Reply)
Hello,
I'm works on Ubuntu server
My goal : I would like to read file line per line, but i want to started at the end of file.
Currently, I use instructions :
while read line;
do
COMMAND
done < /var/log/apache2/access.log
But, the first line, i don't want this. The file is long... (5 Replies)
I have several line in a text file. for example
I like apple;
I like apple
I like orange;
Output: I like apple
I try to useif grep -q "!\;$"; then (Not work)
Please use CODE tags when displaying sample input, sample output, and code segments (as required by forum rules). (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: cmdcmd
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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS
goto
exit(1) User Commands exit(1)NAME
exit, return, goto - shell built-in functions to enable the execution of the shell to advance beyond its sequence of steps
SYNOPSIS
sh
exit [n]
return [n]
csh
exit [ ( expr )]
goto label
ksh
*exit [n]
*return [n]
DESCRIPTION
sh
exit will cause the calling shell or shell script to exit with the exit status specified by n. If n is omitted the exit status is that of
the last command executed (an EOF will also cause the shell to exit.)
return causes a function to exit with the return value specified by n. If n is omitted, the return status is that of the last command exe-
cuted.
csh
exit will cause the calling shell or shell script to exit, either with the value of the status variable or with the value specified by the
expression expr.
The goto built-in uses a specified label as a search string amongst commands. The shell rewinds its input as much as possible and searches
for a line of the form label: possibly preceded by space or tab characters. Execution continues after the indicated line. It is an error to
jump to a label that occurs between a while or for built-in command and its corresponding end.
ksh
exit will cause the calling shell or shell script to exit with the exit status specified by n. The value will be the least significant 8
bits of the specified status. If n is omitted then the exit status is that of the last command executed. When exit occurs when executing
a trap, the last command refers to the command that executed before the trap was invoked. An end-of-file will also cause the shell to exit
except for a shell which has the ignoreeof option (See set below) turned on.
return causes a shell function or '.' script to return to the invoking script with the return status specified by n. The value will be the
least significant 8 bits of the specified status. If n is omitted then the return status is that of the last command executed. If return
is invoked while not in a function or a '.' script, then it is the same as an exit.
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 break(1), csh(1), ksh(1), sh(1), attributes(5)SunOS 5.10 15 Apr 1994 exit(1)