Hi Don, Yes, that true I need to delete all lines from the file in current directory not having word "ASPRODUCTSUMMARY" on 15th position.
No. It will delete all lines no matter what is on them; not just lines not having the text you're looking for.
The use of any utility, for example x, will get rid of all data in file when you issue the command:
This will be done by the shell before xeven starts running.
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Originally Posted by Madhusadan
Also the thing you mentioned of the code line :
is missing the pattern to be removed, I corrected it to be
main problem is for loop syntax having while loop, which is giving syntax error:
MCEASPRODUCTSUMMARY.sh: line 26: syntax error near unexpected token `done'
'CEASPRODUCTSUMMARY.sh: line 26: `echo "${prefix}$line"; done< "$file" > temp.CSV;
Now I am not getting ambiguous redirect, but snytax error.
Line 20 in your script:
sets $file to be a line of output from ls -l when it seems highly unlikely that you want an expansion of $file to be anything other than the file's name. Also, since line 11 of your script is:
and you haven't changed directory between these two lines, I think you just want line 20 to be:
You probably got lots of syntax errors from using $file instead of "$file" on lines 21 and 22. Even when $(ls) instead of $(ls -l), if any of your filenames contain characters that have meaning to the shell you're using, you need to use double-qoutes around $file. You should get into the habit of surrounding the expansion of any variable that may contain characters that the script itself did not produce. You never know when a user will try to hack your script by including characters that are special to the shell!
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