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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting SED - insert space at the beginning of line and multi replace command Post 302670811 by alister on Thursday 12th of July 2012 12:47:19 PM
Old 07-12-2012
Which shell and operating system are you using? Post the exact code that you tried in the exact way that you invoked it. Post the exact erroneous output and error message that you received. Otherwise, we can't be of any help.

Regards,
Alister
 

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FusionInventory::Agent::Tools::Unix(3pm)		User Contributed Perl Documentation		  FusionInventory::Agent::Tools::Unix(3pm)

NAME
FusionInventory::Agent::Tools::Unix - Unix-specific generic functions DESCRIPTION
This module provides some Unix-specific generic functions. FUNCTIONS
getDeviceCapacity(%params) Returns storage capacity of given device, using fdisk. Availables parameters: logger a logger object device the device to use getIpDhcp Returns an hashref of information for current DHCP lease. getFilesystemsFromDf(%params) Returns a list of filesystems as a list of hashref, by parsing given df command output. logger a logger object command the exact command to use file the file to use, as an alternative to the command getFilesystemsTypesFromMount(%params) Returns a list of used filesystems types, by parsing given mount command output. logger a logger object command the exact command to use file the file to use, as an alternative to the command getProcessesFromPs(%params) Returns a list of processes as a list of hashref, by parsing given ps command output. logger a logger object command the exact command to use file the file to use, as an alternative to the command getRoutingTable Returns the routing table as an hashref, by parsing netstat command output. logger a logger object command the exact command to use (default: netstat -nr -f inet) file the file to use, as an alternative to the command perl v5.14.2 2012-06-25 FusionInventory::Agent::Tools::Unix(3pm)
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