1. Shell Programming and Scripting

My String variable is holding value as - abc"def I want to replce " with \" I tried with awk : echo $var | awk '{gsub(/"/,"\"");print}' and I am getting an error, `)' is not expected. (1 Reply)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

hi I have a variable like k=$DESTDIR/$PKG/$VERSION I want to replace each $ in string k with say "XXX". so that k becomes like this "XXXDESTDIR/XXXPKG/XXXVERSION" when I use echo $k | sed -e "s/\$/XXX" it actually passes expanded of variables $DESTDIR, $PKG and $VERSION to sed. ... (10 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Input file - tmp <begin> ./00003/ ./00004/ <end> I would like to replace "." with the value of pwd so that the output will look like /dev/project/00003/ t=`pwd` sed -e "s/\./$t/g" tmp > tmp1; The above piece of code is not working. Appreciate your help. (4 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

ip1="xxx" ip2="bbb" sed 's/$ip1/$ip2/g' (3 Replies)

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, If I have a variable var1 ='TH 12/1234' How can I set this too in a script var1 ='TH 12~1234' Bearing in mind "/" might be in a difference place each time and that the "/" might not even exist each time the variable is set. Thanks (3 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

All I want to do is replace the 2nd line in a file with a variable, eg, var=xxx the file 'test' containing: aaa bbb ccc replace bbb with xxx aaa xxx ccc I had it working with sed on a redhat machine, but it doesn't work on a mac machine. (4 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi guys In my shell script I have a variable that contains a string that contains the current time. I want to replace the spaces and colons in the value with underscores. TIME=`date` echo $TIME gives me: Thu Sep 24 16:40:53 BST 2009 I want it to show:... (4 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Simple enough problem I think, I just can't seem to get it right. The below doesn't work as intended, it's just a function defined in a much larger script: CheckValues() { for field in \ Group_ID \ Group_Title \ Rule_ID \ Rule_Severity \ ... (2 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello All, Maybe I'm Missing something here but I have NOOO idea what the heck is going on with this....? I have a Variable that contains a PATTERN of what I'm considering "Illegal Characters". So what I'm doing is looping through a string containing some of these "Illegal Characters". Now... (5 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, I have a file which has hundred of records with fixed number of fields. In each record there is set of 8 characters which represent the duration of that activity. I want to sum up the duration present in all the records for a report. The problem is the duration changes per record so I... (5 Replies)