1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi all, In unix shell, I want to get two strings ending with "." and starting with "." from a string "chan.txt" For example, a string "chan.txt". The first string is "chan" The second string is "txt" Yours Wilson (1 Reply)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all, Iam trying to sort the contents of the file based on the position of the file. Example: $cat sample.txt 0101020060731 ## Header record 1c1 Berger Awc ANP20070201301 4000.50 1c2 Bose W G ANP20070201609 6000.70 1c2 Andy CK ANP20070201230 28000.00... (3 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

I could really use some help with this issue. I'm having a lot of trouble getting my sed command to delete only the lines from my file that end with _; I'm also supposed to carry the leading 'c' down to the next line. The commands I've tried either delete everything or nothing at all. Any help... (12 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi I have a "set" command which ends with a "." (dot), for example: set `grep "\<${pnum}\>" /tstmp/data.txt |sed 's/#//'` . Can somebody help me to understand the purpose of this "set" and "." combination? The problem is that this command does not produce the same result when run on AIX... (2 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

I need to sort the following file by the rhdiskpower devices in the last column: Total_MB Free_MB OS_MB Name Failgroup Library Label UDID Product Redund Path 1024 851 1024 OCRVOT1_0000 OCRVOT1_0000 System UNKNOWN ... (3 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello Everybody :) !!!. i have question in mind, is it possible to sort a list of hexadecimal numbers using "sort" command? (9 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

hi, please can I ask you for some help? I have data from 3D situation, x y z value I'd like to use gnuplot to generate maps of the value in the planes z=0 to z=1 for example, my file looks like -0,012 0,0060 0,0 0,13972813076023477 -0,012 0,0064319163 4,2894483E-4 ... (1 Reply)

8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello All, I have a scenario to read a file containing text like this:(say file name is Dummy.txt) /home/abc/test1/ | file1 /home/abc/test2/ | file2 I used a variable to store the content from file like this (say for line1): File=`head -1 Dummy.txt | cut -f1 -d "|"` Dir=`head -1 Dummy.txt... (2 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

I am trying to find out which files in a group of files have lines ending in r. What I have is this: cat /tmp/*RECORDS| if grep r$>/dev/null; then echo "yes";else echo"no";fi Records is more than one file. There are the following files TEST-RECORDS /volume/testing /volume/programs ... (2 Replies)

10. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

Hi All, I have 2 pipe delimited files viz., file_old and file_new. I'm trying to compare these 2 files, and extract all the different rows between them into a new_file. comm -3 < sort file_old < sort file_new > new_file I am getting the below error: -ksh: sort: cannot open But if I do... (7 Replies)