Hello, I'm writing a bash script and I have a question.
Here's what I'm doing:
I have a file called inv.dat which contains the following:
B102:Action Figure - Teacher:79
B103:Bike - Purple:23
B104:Baseball:25
B105:Cricket Bat:15
B101:Action Figure - Fireman:15
B100:Flame-Thrower:25
... (2 Replies)
In a bash script I've set a variable that is the directory name of where an executable lives.
the_dir=`dirname $which myscript`
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Hey all, Im kind of lost on how to do what I want so I figured I would ask.
I want to pipe STDOUT of an app to a log file, but I want to prepend each line of that output with the date and time.
Im drawing a complete blank on how to do this?? Any ideas?
i.e.
output is currently this:... (9 Replies)
EDIT: This has been SOLVED. Thanks!
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LEARN ABOUT ULTRIX
makedbm
makedbm(8yp)makedbm(8yp)Name
makedbm - make a yellow pages dbm file
Syntax
makedbm [ -i yp_input_file ] [ -o yp_output_name ] [ -d yp_domain_name ] [ -m yp_master_name ] infile outfile
makedbm [ -u dbmfilename ]
Description
The command takes the file specified by the argument infile and converts it to a pair of files in format, namely and Each line of the input
file is converted to a single record. All characters up to the first tab or space form the key, and the rest of the line is defined as the
key's associated data. If a line ends with a backslash (), the data for that record is continued onto the next line. It is left for the
clients of the yellow pages to interpret the number sign (#); does not treat it as a comment character. The infile parameter can be a
hyphen (-), in which case reads the standard input.
The command is meant to be used in generating files for the yellow pages service. The command generates a special entry with the key
yp_last_modified, which is the date of infile.
Options-i Create a special entry with the key yp_input_file.
-o Create a special entry with the key yp_output_name.
-d Create a special entry with the key yp_domain_name.
-m Create a special entry with the key yp_master_name. If no master host name is specified, yp_master_name will be set to the local
host name.
-u Undo a file. That is, print out a file one entry per line, with a single space separating keys from values.
Examples
The following example shows how a combination of commands can be used to make the yellow pages files and from the file. The percent sign
(%) signifies the system prompt.
% awk 'BEGIN { FS = ":"; OFS = ""; }
{ print $1, $0 }' /etc/passwd > ptmp
% makedbm ptmp passwd.byname
% rm ptmp
The command creates the file ptmp which is in a form usable by The command uses the ptmp file to create the yellow pages dbm files and The
command removes the ptmp file.
See Alsoyppasswd(1yp), dbm(3x), ypmake(8yp)makedbm(8yp)