How to I get the nth character from a string in shell script. For instance, I have a string London. I want to get, say the first character (L) from the string. How do I do this in unix shell?
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Hi All,
I am new to bash scripting. I need your help to removing spaces from a string and assign them to different variables.
Iwant to call script with one command line argument which is file name which containes different attributes their type and different values eg
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How...
can I read input by a user character by cahracter. And assign each character from the string to a variable?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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guys,
I need to know how to assing pattern matched string as an input command variable. Here it goes'
My script is something like this.
./routing.sh <Server> <enable|disable>
## This Script takes an input <Server> variable from this line of the script ##
echo $1 | egrep... (1 Reply)
Hi ,I am trying to assign string to variable ,but it doesn't work
Also could you show me different ways to use grep,(I am trying to get the first,second and first column form file,and I am counting the chars)
let name=`grep "$id" product | cut -c6-20` (25 Replies)
Hello Experts,
In my script i am using the below syntax
/usr/bin/head -1 /opt/chumma.txt | /usr/bin/cut -d " " -f3
output of this one is --> Monday
I want to store this String in a variable (i.e) j or k...
Give me some idea experts.
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Hi,
I have a String(words with tab space) in a file ->file1.txt
0xxxx 11 test $aa$ 8.43
when i read the file and assign to variable
value=$(cat file1.txt)
echo $value
i get the output without tab spaces.
0xxxx 11 test $aa$ 8.43
How to assign string... (2 Replies)
Hi guyz i want to know nth position of character in string. For ex.
var="UK,TK,HK,IND,AUS"
now if we see 1st occurance of , is at 3 position, 2nd at 6,..4th at 13 position.
1st position we can find through INDEX, but what about 2nd,3rd and 4th or may be upto nth position. ?
In oracle we had... (2 Replies)
I am reading lines from a file that contain a number sign (#) before a three or four digit number:
#1043
#677
I can remove the '#' and get just the number. However, I then want to assign that number to a variable and use it as part of a path further on in my program:
/mydir/10/1043 for... (5 Replies)
Hi
How to pass echo output to a variable ?
Does below awk command will get the last character of hostname and assign to a variable - "svr" ?
svr=$( echo `hostname` | awk '{print substr($0,length,1)}' )
Thanks.
Please use CODE tags when dsplaying code segments, sample input, and sample... (7 Replies)