1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, Can someone tell me how i can merge the lines that are wrapped. My file has content somethig like this Line1 -> xxxx bbbb ccc dddd bababab11 Line2 -> 2222 nnn cccc Line 3-> yyyyy zzzz uuzuz ioouo oououou11 Line 4 -> 3333 pppp dddd Line 5-> zzzz kjkj uuzuz ioouo oououou11 Line 6->... (1 Reply)

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I have a file abc: line 1 line 2 line 3 line 4 And I am successfully e-mailing the file, with this: mail -s "contents of abc" jdoe@email.com <<EOF cat abc EOF But the e-mail shows up looking like this: subject: contents of abc line 1 line 2 line 3 line 4 The carriage returns... (5 Replies)

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I need to convert a file i.e cat list 1000: 1001: 1002: to cat wrappedfile 1000:1001:1002: currently I am using a while loop, paste and mv command to achieve desired outcome. touch wrappedfile cat list | while read line ;do echo $line > /tmp/$line;paste /tmp/$line wrappedfile >... (7 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, I am about 3 weeks new to CGI/ Perl scripting and so far some concepts I can wrap my head around perfectly but others not so much. I was wondering if I could get some help in making a script that will pull from a text file and put back into a form. I can make a script that takes input... (15 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

I'm writing a wrapper script (in bash) that wraps another (bash) script. When calling the wrapped script, I need to pass all the received arguments/options to it. Is there a built in variable that holds all the options? I wrote a little while loop (see below) which works. But I wanted to know if... (1 Reply)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

in ksh. Here is what I have working thanks to all of you. Now I need to take it one step further. The $result value needs to be in the $0000.00 format instead of what it is now, 000000. Yes, it is always 6 characters, I thought this would help but so far it has baffled me. My thought... (3 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a file and when I match the word "initiators" in the first column I need to be able to print the rest of the columns in that row. This is fine for the most part but on occasion the "initiators" line gets wrapped to the next line. Here is a sample of the file. caw-enabled ... (3 Replies)

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