In the kornshell you can get the length of a string with
$ x=abc
$ print ${#x}
3
If the current locale is a multibyte locale, like de_AT.UTF-8, you get the length of the string in bytes, not characters:
$ x=für
$ print ${#x}
4
Is there an easy way to get the length of a... (8 Replies)
here is what i want to achieve... consider a file contains below contents. the file size is large about 60mb
cat dump.sql
INSERT INTO `table1` (`id`, `action`, `date`, `descrip`, `lastModified`) VALUES (1,'Change','2011-05-05 00:00:00','Account Updated','2012-02-10... (10 Replies)
Why does this work:
awk -v s="this is a string" 'index($0, s)' file
while the following doesn't?
s="this is a string"
awk -v s=$s 'index($0, s)' file
How do I search for a string with spaces in it?
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sed -e 's/console/raw/g'
this command will replace the letter pradeep with rawat
what if i want to replace a word like FRIENDS with a space simultaneously from the same file i m replacing pradeep. im doing this
sed -e 's/console/raw/g' && sed 's/FRIENDS//g'
but i dono why this is not happening. (2 Replies)
Hi I am beginner in writing shell scripting please tell me how to compare a string in Unix shell.
i have two variables in a shell script,
var1="00101 00201 00301 303 401 405"
var2="101 201 301"
i want to compare var1 with var2 . for example if 101 from Var1 present in Var2 or not. similarly... (5 Replies)
Hi
I have a file which has sequences which look like this
>String1
aqwertrtrytytyuuijhgddfghhhghhgjhjhhsswekrkmygppdslxmvbnhkwqalldrtjbllnlnlnnnvc
>String2
qwwerrtyuiopasdfghjmnbvfklzxerbvcwghjjkoowwqerrtggbddqsdfgaqwcxzakjtyugfsdefrtgyhujiknbbbbcdcdcxsxsx zxzxcvcfcdcg
>String3... (5 Replies)
I am trying to execute something like this
file=/tmp/test.txt
firstline=$(head -n 1 $file)
value=`echo $firstline | cut -d'=' -f2`
if
then
echo true
fi
i read the first line of a file, cut to the numeric value in the first line and check if it greater than 2
but for some... (11 Replies)
Hi Gurus,
I need find which file contains certain string in one directory.
when using
cat * |grep "string", I can get the string name but no file name displayed.
I am wondering if there is any option I can use to get which file contains this certain string.
Thanks in advance. (3 Replies)
I apologize if it was asked before but I couldn't find something related.
I want to replace 2 strings in a file
e.g
pwddb=Lar1wod (need to replace string after =)
pwdapp=Wde2xe (need to replace string after =)
AND in same file want to find last occurrence of a string (SR2-134561),... (2 Replies)