Boy, I've avoided scripting because it's a whole other language to learn. I barely have a grasp on the command line.
Scripting is nothing else than command line. You could every program written here cut-&-paste to the command line and it would work. On the other hand you could paste any command line content to a file, make it executable and you have a script. So, again: you are already scripting, like it or not.
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Originally Posted by sudon't
1.) Possibly, I have malformed, (if that's the word), text files. It is likely they were created on a Windows machine, so I will check that out, and convert them if necessary. Perhaps that is the problem? Then, I think I have a way to test whether each file ends in a newline.
Yes, this is always a problem. When you edit files intended to be used on a Unix system better stay away from Windows editors, "notepad" foremost. Use an editor under Unix instead, it has an awful abundance of them.
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Originally Posted by sudon't
2.) Forgive my ignorance, but are the variables defined correctly? How does the script know, for instance, that "ot" equals "./01_Old Testament"?
This is actually a good question, because i left it out in my explanation of the script. Let me correct that error now. When we have a look at the start of the script we see:
The first two lines use special variables which are filled by the shell automatically. When you provide command line arguments to a script the shell will use the variables "1", "2", etc., and fill these with the first, second, third, ... argument. Example:
now inside "script" "$1" would be "one", "2" would be "two" and "$3" would be "three". Have a look how alister has suggested to start his script and you will know how these two variables were filled.
A proper description of how alisters script is to be called would be:
The third line fills variable "t" with the first of these two values (you remember, it will be filled with the other upon encountering the empty line).
Hi there,
I have numerous files in a directory (approx 2500) that I want to delete although I get the following:-
Server> rm *.*
Arguments too long
Is there a proper way of deleting this rather than breaking it down further through the list of files
rm *10.*
rm *11.*
rm *12.*
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1232342
1232342
2344767
4576823
2325642
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3472328
2347248
1237123
1232344
8787890
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FILEC
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../../../Sales_Only/yyy_Dealer
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10000
20000
30000
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ABC
DEF
XYZ
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Hi All,
Need your help.
I will need to concatenate around 100 files but each end of the file I will need to insert my name DIRT1228 on each of the file and before the next file is added and arrived with just one file for all the 100files.
Appreciate your time.
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Hi
I am trying to learn linux step by step an i am wondering
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