I don't have so much to say about using "\" more than it's an escape for the following newline character, like esacping e.g. "$" with "\$". So perhaps it's important that there is no character (space etc.) after the "\".
This line:
Perhaps the spaces surrounding "=" is causing problems, and if you should use "\", don't have it at this last line.
Don't know if this is helpful...
Good day ladies and gents,
I'm trying to write shell code that can give ignore everything else in a line bar the last character but not having much luck.
Any ideas? I have been looking at cut and sed but not making any progress. (3 Replies)
Hello.
I have a file (old.txt) that I need to copy into another file (new.txt).
Each line on old.txt ends with CR/LF but the position of CR/LF varies from one record to another.
I need to copy each line of record to new.txt and move CR/LF in pos 165.
Can I use awk to achieve this? How?... (8 Replies)
Hi,
I am reading data from file and storing it in a multiline variable. Every line is seperated with "\n" character.
globalstrval="${globalstrval}""${line}""\n"
If the value of globalstrval is like:
1234
ABCD
EFGH
WXYZ
....
If I do,
YLvar=`echo $globalstrval | grep "ABC"`
then... (1 Reply)
Hi guys , i need help so bad on this issue..
Basically i have to delete the line continuation symbol of first column variable and add the truncated part of that word in next line to first line.
here i written sample 3 lines but originally i have bunch of lines in that file.
client1_day- ... (3 Replies)
Hi Experts,
I have data coming in 4 columns and there are new line characters \n in between the data. I need to remove the new line characters in the middle of the row and keep the \n character at the end of the line.
File is comma (,) seperated.
Eg:
ID,Client ,SNo,Rank
37,Airtel \n... (8 Replies)
I get a file which has all its content in a single row.
The file contains xml data containing 3000 records, but all in a single row, making it difficult for Unix to Process the file.
I decided to insert a new line character at all occurrences of a particular string in this file (say replacing... (4 Replies)
Hi ,
I am doing some enhancements in an existing shell script. There it used the awk command in a function as below :
float_expr() {
IFS=" " command eval 'awk "
BEGIN {
result = $*
print result
exit(result == 0)
}"'
}
It calls the function float_expr to evaluate two values ,... (1 Reply)
Hi friend,
I have one file , and i want to read that file character by character.
I need this script in ksh.
while using read option with -n1 am getting error.
while read -n1 c read has bad option
And if i am using below script, then if in a line has space like this ( Pallvi mahajan)... (10 Replies)
Greetings Experts,
I do have some basic knowledge of Unix. The task I am trying to do through shell script is to generate the view script for all of the tables which is in YYYYMMDD format (I assume I am on Ksh).
I have certain tables that ends in YYYYMMDD format (eg: tbl_20150630)
For each... (1 Reply)
I am still learning shell scripting. Recently I see a function for read configuration. But some of special character make me confused. I checked online to find answer. It was not successful. I post the code here to consult with expert or guru to get better understanding on these special characters... (3 Replies)
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rhn_check
RHN_CHECK(8) Red Hat, Inc. RHN_CHECK(8)NAME
rhn_check - Check for and execute queued actions on RHN.
SYNOPSIS
rhn_check [options]
DESCRIPTION
rhn_check is a client program that connects to "Spacewalk Server", "Red Hat Satellite" or "Red Hat Network Classic" and receives queued
actions for this particular system. After receiving the actions, rhn_check will then process them, and return the results to Spacewalk.
OPTIONS -v, --verbose
Increase the debugging output.
--proxy=PROXY
Specify an http proxy to use.
--proxyUser=PROXYUSER
Specify a username to use for an authenticated proxy. This option must be used in conjunction with proxyPassword.
--proxyPassword=PROXYPASSWORD
Specify a password to use for an authenticated proxy. This option must be used in conjunction with proxyUser.
--version
Show the program's version number and exit.
-h, --help
Show a help message and exit.
FILES
/etc/sysconfig/rhn/systemid
The digital server ID for this machine if the system has been registered onto "Spacewalk Server", "Red Hat Satellite" or "Red Hat
Network Classic". This file does not exist otherwise.
/etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date
The common configuration file used by RHN client programs.
SEE ALSO rhn_register(8), rhnreg_ks(8), rhnsd(8), rhn-profile-sync(8), rhnplugin(8), up2date(5).
AUTHORS
See the AUTHORS file included with this software.
This manual page was written by James Bowes <jbowes@redhat.com>
BUGS
Report bugs to <http://bugzilla.redhat.com>.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 1999-2010 Red Hat, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICU-
LAR PURPOSE.
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