1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I remember once seeing a way to get the left most string in a word. Let's say: a="First.Second.Third" (separated by dot) echo ${a#*.} shows --> Second.Third echo ${a##*.} shows --> Third How do I get the the left most string "First" Or "First.Second" ??? Tried to replace #... (2 Replies)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi guys, I am not very experienced in writing ksh scripts and I am trying to write a piece of code that indicates if a given string contains only digits and no alphabet (upper or lower case). If i write it my way it would turn out to have a lot of comparisons.. :eek: Thanks a lot in... (3 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a string like xxxxxx44. What's the best way to extract the digits (one or more) in a ksh script? Thanks (6 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

print out 201 in following string, Please note the chars before 201 are random, no fixed format. ua07app201 (20 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi Experts, I have called some.txt with the following content. oracle HYRDSRVIHUB01 pts/0 TESTIHUB 07-JUN-10 CREATE TABLE TESTIHUB PHONE ... (12 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

I would like to search between two a string. I thought this would be easy. The is always at the beginning of a line. The code: gawk '/^/{d=$1},/searchstring/,/^(d+1)/' or gawk '/^/,/searchstring/,/^/' did not return the desired result. inputfile.txt 999 some text searchstring some... (6 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a awk file which consists of the follwoing code in file select.awk : /xxx/ { time = gensub(/xxx \*\*\*(.*)/, "\\1", "g") printf("%s\n",time) next } and an input file with the following file file.txt :- xxx ***Wed May 2 18:00:00 CDT 2012 AAA AAAA AAAA xxx... (4 Replies)

8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi Guys, I want to search for a specific file in a directory which have a "b" letter as the 3rd character in the name of the file. For Example : /abc/efg/ldbjfblkj.sh /abc/efg/erublkd.sh /abc/efg/eibueora.sh /abc/efg/kfvnmnb.sh Since we have 2 files with "b" as a 3rd character in... (5 Replies)

9. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

hello i have file with 100k records and each one has certain value that starts at 28th column and certain value that starts at 88th column e.g. 1st file <25>1234567 ..... <88> 8573785485 i have aditional file with values which are related to value that starts at 88th column of the... (1 Reply)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, I have a log file with logs such as 01/05/2017 10:23:41 : file.log.38: database error, MODE=SINGLE, LEVEL=critical, STATE: 01170255 (mode main how can i use perl to extract the 8-digit number below from the string 01170255 Thanks (7 Replies)