That is a dangerous use of backticks and useless use of cat and discovered for yourself one of the reasons why You are correct, it splits on whitespace, not lines. (You can change this by altering the special IFS variable, but read is preferred over backticks for this anyway.)
If you want to read lines, you can do this.
Code:
while read LINE
do
echo "got line $LINE"
done < inputfile
This is also more efficient than cat in backticks.
It can even split tokens for you:
Code:
while read USERNAME EMAIL1 EMAIL2
do
echo "user $USERNAME"
echo "Email1 $EMAIL1"
echo "Email2 $EMAIL2"
done < inputfile
read also obeys IFS, so if your file was separated by commas instead of spaces, the loop would still work with a tiny change:
Code:
while IFS="," read USERNAME EMAIL1 EMAIL2
do
echo "user $USERNAME"
echo "Email1 $EMAIL1"
echo "Email2 $EMAIL2"
done < inputfile
Hi,
I would like to output the identical line to 2 text files, ie
output='blah'
echo $output > test1.txt
echo $output > test2.txt
Is there a way I could do that output with ONE command, ie
output='blah'
echo $output > test1.txt & test2.txt (I know that doesn't work)
Thanks for any... (1 Reply)
Hi all,
Here is my requirement
I have to search 'ORA' word in out.log file,if it is present then i need to send that file (out.log) content to some mail id.If 'ORA' word is not in that file then i need to send 'load succesful' message to some mail id.
The below the shell script is not... (5 Replies)
ok..
so problem is:
I have a file that reads:
cat 123
1 and 2
3 and 4
5 and 6
I was using for loops to run through this information.
Code:
for i in `cat 123`
do
echo $i
done
shouldn't the output come as
1 and 2 (3 Replies)
Hello,
I am trying to send text to a USB to serial adaptor and then to an external speech synthesizer. I tried using the cat and echo commands with no luck. I have gotten some audio output from my synthesizer using Kermit a terminal emulator, so I am pretty sure my synthesizer and my USB to serial... (1 Reply)
echo `echo ` doesn't echoes anything. And it's logic. But
echo `echo `echo ` ` does echoes "echo". What's the logic of it? the `echo `echo ` inside of the whole (first) echo, echoes nothing, so the first echo have to echo nothing but echoes "echo"
(too much echoing :P):o (2 Replies)
Hello, I have a simple(I think) question!
Although simple, I have been unable to resolve it, so I hope someone can help! OK, here it is:
1)I have an awk script that prints something, such as:
awk '{print $2}' a > x
so x might hold the value of say '10'
2)Now, I just want to check to see if... (4 Replies)
Hey all! I'm in an intro to UNIX class at university, and we've just began writing scripts. Naturally I can't get it to do what I want.
Basic script as follows:
COMPARE1=`ls|wc -l`
tar czf archive.tgz ~/path/to/file
COMPARE2=`tar tvzf archive.tgz|wc -l`
if
then
... (7 Replies)
Hi
I want to use echo command as below
echo 'dir=' $1 ' dir|file|home'
i need output like below :
echo 'dir=' $1 ' dir|file|home' pp13dff
Output
dir=pp13dff dir|file|home (4 Replies)
Cheers!
In /etc/syslog.conf, if an error type is not specified, is it logged anywhere (most preferable is it logged to /var/log/messages) or not?
To be more precise I am interested in error and critical level messages. At default these errors are not specified in syslog.conf, and I need to... (6 Replies)
Hi,
I need to send an email in the below format:
Hi All,
body description on 12-Dec-2014
<a html table, which is there in Result.txt file>
I am using the below command
{
echo "Hi All,"
echo "body description on $var_date "
} | ( cat Result.txt ) | /usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -t
... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: Prasannag87
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LEARN ABOUT OSF1
ppmtosixel
ppmtosixel(1) General Commands Manual ppmtosixel(1)NAME
ppmtosixel - convert a portable pixmap into DEC sixel format
SYNOPSIS
ppmtosixel [-raw] [-margin] [ppmfile]
DESCRIPTION
Reads a portable pixmap as input. Produces sixel commands (SIX) as output. The output is formatted for color printing, e.g. for a DEC
LJ250 color inkjet printer.
If RGB values from the PPM file do not have maxval=100, the RGB values are rescaled. A printer control header and a color assignment table
begin the SIX file. Image data is written in a compressed format by default. A printer control footer ends the image file.
OPTIONS -raw If specified, each pixel will be explicitly described in the image file. If -raw is not specified, output will default to com-
pressed format in which identical adjacent pixels are replaced by "repeat pixel" commands. A raw file is often an order of magni-
tude larger than a compressed file and prints much slower.
-margin
If -margin is not specified, the image will be start at the left margin (of the window, paper, or whatever). If -margin is speci-
fied, a 1.5 inch left margin will offset the image.
PRINTING
Generally, sixel files must reach the printer unfiltered. Use the lpr -x option or cat filename > /dev/tty0?.
BUGS
Upon rescaling, truncation of the least significant bits of RGB values may result in poor color conversion. If the original PPM maxval was
greater than 100, rescaling also reduces the image depth. While the actual RGB values from the ppm file are more or less retained, the
color palette of the LJ250 may not match the colors on your screen. This seems to be a printer limitation.
SEE ALSO ppm(5)AUTHOR
Copyright (C) 1991 by Rick Vinci.
26 April 1991 ppmtosixel(1)
09-20-2012
You are correct, it splits on whitespace, not lines. (You can change this by altering the special IFS variable, but read is preferred over backticks for this anyway.)