1. Shell Programming and Scripting

hi, I was wondering if there was a good way to create an array within a function, where the name is based on a passed argument? I tried this: _____________________________ func(){ #take in 1st arg as the arrayname arrayName=$1 let i=0 while read line do arrayName=${line} let i+=1... (5 Replies)

2. Programming

Im trying to write some code atm which gets the complete pathname of a folder and strips off references to the parent folders. The end result should be just the name of the folder. Currently Im able to extract the folder name, however Im getting junk added onto the name as well which is making... (7 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have the following function in a bash script that fails to return the sorted array. I think the problem lies in the recursion not correctly passing the arrays, but I can't tell what I'm doing wrong. Anyone see the problem? function quicksort () { local array=( `echo "$1"` ) local... (7 Replies)

4. Programming

This is in C++. Is there a way to take characters out of input data? For example, hello 0 1 2 3 4 5 is within my double dimensional array: char arr; How would I output only the characters h,e,l,l,o? (0 Replies)

5. Programming

why does this not work? #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> char getFileMode(char charChanger) { char filetype; /*var to hold the value to be returned*/ filetype = charSetter; /*set filetype to "l" if it is a symlink*/ return filetype; } int main(void){ char... (8 Replies)

6. Programming

As this function returns the address of the string corressponding to the errno value provided to it. Can someone please let me know where, in the memory, it could be (on freeBSD). The MAN page tells under the BUG section that "For unknown error numbers, the strerror() function will return its... (5 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all Does anyone know Java-Arrays.binarySearch function equivalent in awk I tried like this but it's not correct one,it just returns array index if and only when searched value available in array, for some reason if searched value not found then I want to return upper nearest neighbour index.... (1 Reply)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello Friends, I would appreciate so much if you could explain how the underscores works at the following code? Sorry if it sounds a bit novice question. awk -F',' 'NR==FNR{_=1;next}!_{print}' exclude infile KR, Eagle (6 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi Guys, I need a help to creating a bash script to merging two files that containing not in order pattern into single file also within that single file I need to concatenate and manipulate the string from two files. Appreciate for any kind help given. Thanks. Here are the input files:... (3 Replies)

10. Programming

I am passing a char* to the function "reverse" and when I execute it with gdb I get: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x000000000040083b in reverse (s=0x400b2b "hello") at pointersExample.c:72 72 *q = *p; Attached is the source code. I do not understand why... (9 Replies)