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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
how do I use a file (comma seperated) as an input for a script in bin/sh?
e.g.
I have a script that :
Input1=$1
Input2=$2
Input3=$3
Input4=$4
echo "$Input1, $Input2, $Input3,$Input4" (or some other function)
If I have a .csv file which lists many rows of input:
joe,5,john,10... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: finster
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
#!/bin/sh
rpt="/export/home/legato/rpt_offsite"/test_eject.tape
cat <$rpt
while read line
do
echo $line
perform routine
done
I am trying to read the contents of this file line by line and perform a routine for each line read.
The file contents are numbers..
What is wrong with my... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: gzs553
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all
As quite newbie in shell scripting i need your help.
The case: two files with question mark delimeter:
file1.txt:
A; B; D; E;
file2.txt:
a,antonis,red; b,maria,green; c,george,blue; d,jack,red; e,Helen,yellow; k,konstantin,black;
I need an effiecient way of parsing while it... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: forumsgr
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
All,
I am trying to figure out a script to run in windows that will allow me to match on First column in file1 to 8th Column in File2 then
Insert file1 column2 to file2 column4 then create a new file.
File1:
12345 Sam
12346 Bob
12347 Bill
File2:... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: darkoth
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
What is a more efficient way to read files into a script? I don't want to hard code the file names like below:
for file in file1 \
file2
do
...
done
I want to execute the script with a variable number for files for input like below:
./scriptname file1 file2 file3 ...... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: djehresmann
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
I am hoping someone can help me with some scripting I need to complete using AWK.
I'm trying to process multiple fixed files to generate one concatenated fixed file in a standard format.
The Input file is:-
aaaa bbbbb ccccc 1 xxxx aaa bbb
aaaa bbbbb ccccc 2 abcd aaa CCC... (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: jason_v_brown
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
I have a script which checks on my jobs that run on some cluster.
The script, "script.sh", takes as an input the job-id for the job to checked. Sometimes I have 100s of jobs and I want to check them. I could put these job-ids into a file, each id in its own line.
The script would ask... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: faizlo
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have this script
Script.sh:
#!/bin/sh
sed 's,\,,g' input.dat > output .dat
But i want to run it witb different files. So i want the input file as an input argument to the script, how could i do that.
Running it like this:
> Script.sh input.dat (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Johanni
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
I'm trying to figure out how best to approach this script, and I have very little experience, so I could use all the help I can get. :wall:
I regularly need to delete files from many directories.
A file with the same name may exist any number of times in different subdirectories.... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: *ShadowCat*
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi everyone, I have problems with this script.
This script should check for a folder for each server in the list of the list.txt file.
The script only checks the first host, and then exits, why?
#!/bin/bash
file='/etc/list.txt'
while read line; do
echo $line
if ssh root@$line "stat /var >... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: nashrik
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FMT(1) User Commands FMT(1)
NAME
fmt - simple optimal text formatter
SYNOPSIS
fmt [-WIDTH] [OPTION]... [FILE]...
DESCRIPTION
Reformat each paragraph in the FILE(s), writing to standard output. The option -WIDTH is an abbreviated form of --width=DIGITS.
With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
-c, --crown-margin
preserve indentation of first two lines
-p, --prefix=STRING
reformat only lines beginning with STRING, reattaching the prefix to reformatted lines
-s, --split-only
split long lines, but do not refill
-t, --tagged-paragraph
indentation of first line different from second
-u, --uniform-spacing
one space between words, two after sentences
-w, --width=WIDTH
maximum line width (default of 75 columns)
-g, --goal=WIDTH
goal width (default of 93% of width)
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
AUTHOR
Written by Ross Paterson.
REPORTING BUGS
GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Report fmt translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
Full documentation at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/fmt>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) fmt invocation'
GNU coreutils 8.28 January 2018 FMT(1)