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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting String Replace by * Post 302742499 by nanthagopal on Tuesday 11th of December 2012 06:35:32 AM
Old 12-11-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by jim mcnamara
One way:
Code:
mystring='test'
mystring=$(echo "$mystring" | awk '{for(i=0;i<length($0);i++) {printf("*")} }' )
echo "$mystring"



Thank you for your reply.

I have used the above command as follows,
Code:
#!/bin/bash

fnid() {
final=$(echo $1 | awk '{for(i=0;i<length($0);i++) {printf("*")} }' FS= OFS= )
echo $final
}

id="5339087"
updatedid=$(fnid $id )
echo $updatedid


I got the output,

list of file names in the path instead of ******

Please Suggest me,

Regards,
Nanthagopal A
 

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Bulkmail::DummyServer(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation				Bulkmail::DummyServer(3pm)

NAME

       Mail::Bulkmail::DummyServer - dummy class for dummy server objects

AUTHOR

       Jim Thomason, jim@jimandkoka.com

DESCRIPTION

       Mail::Bulkmail::DummyServer is a drop in replacement for Mail::Bulkmail::Server.

       Sometimes you just want to test things on your end - make sure your list iterates properly, make sure your mail merge is functioning fine,
       make sure your logging functions are correct, whatever.	And in those cases, you probably don't want to worry about futzing around with
       your SMTP relay and sending junk messages through it that you don't care about. Not to mention the fact that those probably will need to be
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       Enter DummyServer. This is a subclass of Mail::Bulkmail::Server that behaves exactly the same except for the fact that it doesn't actually
       connect to a server. Instead, it sends all data that would be going to the server to a file instead. This file should be specified in the
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	#in your conf file
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CLASS ATTRIBUTES

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METHODS

       connect	  "connects" to your DummyServer. Actually, internally it ties a filehandle onto this package.	Yes, this thing has a (minimal)
		  implementation of a tied handle class to accomplish this feat.

		  This method is known to return

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		  disconnect can also disconnect quietly, i.e., it won't try to issue a RSET and then quit before closing the socket.

		   $server->disconnect();			  #issues RSET and quit
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SEE ALSO

       Mail::Bulkmail::Server

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