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Operating Systems Linux Problem editting the first occurence of a pattern in the first uncommented line Post 302745243 by Stoner008 on Monday 17th of December 2012 04:02:59 AM
Old 12-17-2012
Hmmm Im getting a syntax error

awk: cmd. line:1: !/^#/ && !Done{$2="Changed_Pattern");Done++}1
awk: cmd. line:1: ^ syntax error

---------- Post updated at 04:01 AM ---------- Previous update was at 03:57 AM ----------

Hmmm Im getting a syntax error

awk: cmd. line:1: !/^#/ && !Done{$2="Changed_Pattern");Done++}1
awk: cmd. line:1: ^ syntax error

---------- Post updated at 04:02 AM ---------- Previous update was at 04:01 AM ----------

Im getting a error message

awk: cmd. line:1: !/^#/ && !Done{$2="Changed_Pattern");Done++}1
awk: cmd. line:1: ^ syntax error
 

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pclock

PCLOCK(1)						      General Commands Manual							 PCLOCK(1)

NAME

       pclock - pixmap clock

SYNOPSIS

       pclock [options]

DESCRIPTION

       This  manual  page  documents  briefly  the pclock command.  This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the
       original program does not have a manual page.

       pclock is a program that places a small analog clock program on the desktop of X.  It was designed to run under the WindowMaker window man-
       ager.  It uses any 64x64 pixmap as a background.

OPTIONS

       The programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-') and short optoins starting with one
       dash.  A summary of options is included below.

       -B PIXMAP, --background=PIXMAP
	      Use the given pixmap as the clock background (size must be 64x64).

       -H COLOR, --hands-color=COLOR
	      Draw the hands (hour, minute and second) in the specified color.

       -S COLOR, --second-hand-color
	      Draw the second hand in the specified color

       -h, --help
	      Show summary of options.

       --hour-hand-length=INT
	      Draw the hour hand with the specified length of INT.

       --minute-hand-length=INT
	      Draw the minute hand with the specified length of INT.

       --second-hand-length=INT
	      Draw the second hand with the specified length of INT.

       --second-hand-width=INT
	      Draw the minute hand with the specified width of INT.

       -s, --second-hand
	      Don't display the second hand.

       -v, --version
	      Show version of program.

       -w, --withdrawn
	      Don't start up in a withdrawn (iconic) state.

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Darren Benham <gecko@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).	The  soft-
       ware is copyrighted (c) 1998 by and released under the GPL v2.

       Author: Alexander Kourakos <Alexander@Kourakos.com>
	  Web: http://www.kourakos.com/~awk/pclock/

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