1. Shell Programming and Scripting

i have textfiles that contain a series of lines that look like this: string0 .................................................... column3a column4a string1**384y0439 ..................................... column3b column4b... (2 Replies)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I'm using a csh shell (or, that'd be my guess from the .cshrc file I see) and I'm looking to change my prompt. There are about 10 other threads, I know, but this question is a little more specific. I want to know, is there a way to list the current directory from a certain level or directory... (6 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

sample text: 001 the quick brown fox jumps 987 over a lazy dog 002 the quick brown fox jumps 999 over a lazy dog 003 the quick brown cow jumps 888 over a lazy dog 004 the quick brown fox jumps 777 over a lazy dog 005 the quick brown fox jumps 666 over a lazy cat i want to do something... (1 Reply)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

hi everybody, I need a quick help with this issue. I have configuration file in which the following set of strings must be present. I need to check it with the bash script (leading spaces are not significant). Check must be case insensitive. Can anybody help? ... any lines <SECTION... (4 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

I am creating a script to compare definitions and declarations of functions in C code, and report if the arguments are different. So I need to compare the 2 strings (args of both), how can I do that? (2 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

if I have the following lines in a file app.log some lines here <AAAA> abc <id>123456789</id> ddd </AAAA>some lines here too <BBBB> abc <id>123456789</id> ddd </BBBB>some lines here too <AAAA> xyz <id>987654321</id> ssss </AAAA>some lines here again... How do I get the... (5 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I am looking for a shell script which serves the below purpose. Please find below the algorithm for the same and any help on this would be highly appreciated. 1)set of strings need to be replaced among set of files(directory may contain different types of files) 2)It should search for... (10 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

while i've used arrays to work with variables, i've never used them to loop through a set of strings and wanted to ask the community for some feedback or assistance. let me be specific. here's my code: # URL port Variables port2195=`nc -z $url2195 2195` port2196=`nc -z $url2196 2196`... (5 Replies)

9. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

I cannot seem to get what should be a simple awk one-liner to work correctly and cannot figure out why. I would like to use patterns from a specific field in one file as regex to search for matching strings in the entire line ($0) of another file. I would like to output the lines of File2 which... (1 Reply)