:confused: Is it possible to send a variable to a sed or cut command? I have a test script as below:
counter=1
while read line
do
# Test the file
printf "$line" > temp$counter
pref=$(cut c1-2000 $temp$counter | sed 's///g' | sed 's|.*PutTime\(.*)Origin.*|\1|')
printf" let... (5 Replies)
I want to instert Category:XXXXX into the 2. line
something like this should work, but I have somewhere the wrong sytanx. something with the linebreak goes wrong:
sed "2i\\${n}Category:$cat\n"
Sample:
Titel Blahh Blahh abllk sdhsd sjdhf
Blahh Blah Blahh
Blahh
Should look like... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I am new to UNIX Scripting. I have been trying to use the CUT command to retrieve part of the header from a file and assign it to a variable. I have tried searching a lot, but I am still unsuccessful.
Sample Header: HJAN BALANCE 20090616
I need to retrieve the date here, which always... (10 Replies)
I know this script is crummy, but I was just messing around.. how do I get sed's insert command to allow variable expansion to show the filename?
#!/bin/bash
filename=`echo $0`
/usr/bin/sed '/#include/ {
i\
the filename is `$filename`
}' $1
exit 0 (8 Replies)
Hello,
i have a file, i open the file and read the line, i want to get the first item in the csv file and also teh third+6 item and wirte it to a new csv file. only problem is that using echo it takes TOO LONG:
please help a newbie. below is my code:
WorkingDir=$1
FileName=`cut -d ',' -f... (2 Replies)
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After using the egrep command to pull certain lines from the asg5f1 (creating the asg5f1c file), I am required... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I want to insert some text in the begning of each line. But issue is the text that i want to insert is stored into one variable. so my command look like
constr="`date | awk '{print $3"-"$2"-"$6}'`",MXGBTST1" "
sed 's/^/\$constr/g' alert_temp.csv
but sed command instead of taking... (3 Replies)
I am being passed a file in UNIX, ie: variable.txt
I need to extract the first part of the file content, up to the period, content ie: common_dir.second_output
cut -d'.' -f1 /content/stores/variable.txt
I then need to utilize the results to create a variable ($1), and test on that... (4 Replies)
Hi,
My aim is to get the md5 hash of a file and store it in a variable.
var1="md5sum file1"
$var1
The above outputs fine but also contains the filename, so somthing like this 243ASsf25 file1
i just need to get the first part and put it into a variable.
var1="md5sum file1"... (5 Replies)
Hi,
I would like use the output of my cut command as a variable in my following awk command. Here's what I've written.
cut -f1 info.txt | awk -v i=xargs -F'' '{if($6 == $i) print $20}' summary.txt
Where obviously the 'xargs' doesn't do what I want. How can I pass my cut result to my awk... (3 Replies)