1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

How can I grep for a certain letter that only shows on the 3rd letter or character. ex: ASGHDY SHTYRD SDTYRD IGIKGD I only want the TY part of the 3rd character so output would only be SHTYRD and DDTYRD - I only want the TY on the 3rd character. THANKS (5 Replies)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi I would like to accept in a string from user like username/pwd@dbname suppose the user does not input @ then i should throw an error that @ symbol missing . How to achieve this Thanks in advance Suresh (6 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

If I have a string defined as: MyString=abcde echo $MyString How can I loop through it character by character? I haven't been able to find a way to index the string so that I loop through it. shew01 (10 Replies)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, For example, i have a string "123 456 789 abc 111 222 333" and I would like to delete all the characters before abc so that it becomes "abc 111 222 333" how can i do that in unix? using sed? note: I actually don't know how many words/charachters before "abc", so the "cut"... (9 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, Can anyone help me please, I have a word like below. 6,76 I want to read this word and check if it has "," (comma) and if yes then i want to replace it with "." (dot). That means i want to be changed to 6.76 If the word doesnot contain "," then its should not be changed. Eg. ... (6 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Friends, I'm looking for a command that delete the first tho caractere in a word. Here is an exp : I want to replace "20091001" by "091001" or "replace" by "place" Thx, (13 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all, FileOne family balance >>>>> 0 0 0 0 java.io.FileNotFoundException: Settings.xml (No such file or directory) at java.io.FileInputStream.open(Native Method) .. .... ..... ..... java.lang.NullPointerException ... ..... ...... Stacktrace: at... (2 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, I have a file in which a number of lines are starting with similar first word but different next words. I want to replace the any nth word(not 1st or 2nd) with another word. Eg:- My file contains are like this:- Ram is a boy. Ram is a good boy. Ram plays cricket. Here I want to... (2 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

How can I represent the position of 1 (considering only the 1s after the colon) in the word from field5 and above; counting from right to left. Input: TT-124 06-03-14 08-02-10 FAS CAT1:10 TT-125-1 05-03-14 10-06-08 CAS CAT2:1010 FAT1:10000 TT-125-3 07-03-14 11-02-06 FAS FAT1:1101... (6 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, Anyone can help using SED searches a character string for a specified delimiter character, and returns a leading or trailing space/blank. Text file : "1"|"ExternalClassDEA519CF5"|"Art1" "2"|"ExternalClass563EA516C"|"Art3" "3"|"ExternalClass305ED16B8"|"Art9" ... ... ... (2 Replies)