ok , so sed/awk have not worked in here as
tr output : alpha,beta,gamma, did not contain a new line in them. And this behaviour is also sed/awk version specific.
now with awk we can change the record seperator right ? so should not something like this work logically ?
since my tr output does not have a newline i am using RS=""
Hi. Im using cat to output the contents of a file, then piping it to my while read loop.In this loop variables get assigned values. However when i try to use the variables outside the loop their values has been reset.I understand about subshells etc. but I have no idea how to "preserve" the... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I did not understand why the following did not work out as I expected:
find . -name "pqp.txt" | grep -v "Permission"
I thought I would be able to catch whichever paths containing my pqp.txt file without receiving the display of messages such as "find: cannot access... Permisson... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I was wondering why ls * | echo does not print the contents of the directory to the screen? The way I see it, ls * returns a whole lot of information, and then we pipe all this info to echo, so surely it should all come to our screen!
Is there a serious flaw in my understanding?
... (3 Replies)
Not sure why this does not work in bash:
tail -f err.log |&
-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `&'
I am attempting to continuously read a file that is being updated by doing a "tail -f" on the file and piping the output to stdin which can then be read by the next shell command
Thnx (4 Replies)
Hi All...
Does anyone know how to pipe the output of a "select" statement from a call to Oracle to a file?
ANy ideas woule be greatly appreciated!
Code is as below...
echo "producing CSV file 2..."
sqlplus -s $username/$password@$database<<EOF
set serveroutput on size 1000000
set... (13 Replies)
Hi All,
I am trying to convert the below Csh code into Perl.
But i have the following error.
Can any expert help ?
Error:
ls: *tac: No such file or directory
Csh
set $ST_file = `ls -rt *$testid*st*|tail -1`;
Perl
my $ST_file = `ls -rt *$testid*st*|tail -1`; (10 Replies)
Hi all. I am using procmail to deliver an email to a script I am developing. Procmail delivers the email to the script on standard input. I imagine this is the same as piping input from a command into the script. Hence I've been testing my script by running
echo 'test' | sms-autosend-backup.sh
... (2 Replies)
Ok, so there is a perl script that runs as a server, on my local host. It tells me which port to use. I want to pipe that output into my browser so I can do the whole thing with a single command. The problem is, I think, that the program doesn't actually exit cause it's running a server, so...... (6 Replies)
Basically I was wondering if any of you know how to pipe the output of ls to a text file? so in my shell script one of the lines is ls but i want to pipe it into a file called directory listing.
Cheers.
I have tried ls | Directorylisting.txt
but it keeps saying " line 7: DirectoryListing.txt:... (9 Replies)
Whenever the below command is being executed by a scheduler at UNIX environment, we are getting below error
cd /tmp/log
find . -ignore_readdir_race ! -name . -prune -iname 'XYZ*' -type f -mtime +4 -printf "%f\n"
./tmpfile.script_name.2.31885.201906071336.tmp': No such file or directory... (2 Replies)