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At times i bark back (meaning i want to be right) Unix - Using Shell Arrays this tutorial says sh does support arrays.
Then that tutorial is wrong! /bin/sh on every POSIX-compliant modern system means a POSIX shell (or near POSIX), which is defined here: , except on Solaris <= 10 where it means the classic Bourne shell which also does not know arrays. On older legacy systems it also means Bourne Shell..
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That is no proof. That just means that the shell you are using happens to understand more than the POSIX syntax. Try executing that with /bin/sh on Ubuntu or Debian and the former will fail...
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* I didnt use result/*/* at all
Yes you did in post #2
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* Quotes, yes you're absolutly right, i was too lazy
* ((var++)) is my preference, at times i use let - and now figured its a bash-builtin.. thank you
You are right, let is a bash-builtin (and a ksh93 builtin)...
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Oracle procedure create files on UNIX folder on a regular basis. I need to FTP files onto windows server and place the files, based on their name, in the corresponding folders. File name is as follows: ccyymmddfoldernamefile.txt; Folder Name length could be of any size; however, the prefix and... (3 Replies)
This is the file structure:
DESKTOP/Root of Photo Folders/Folder1qweqwasdfsd/*jpg
DESKTOP/Root of Photo Folders/Folder2asdasdasd/*jpg
DESKTOP/Root of Photo Folders/Folder3asdadfhgasdf/*jpg
DESKTOP/Root of Photo Folders/Folder4qwetwdfsdfg/*jpg
DESKTOP/Root of Photo... (4 Replies)
Dear All,
I need a script to merge lines of an input file in a loop, please guide me for the script or one liner(awk, sed, tr, shell, perl).
I/P File-------------------------
APaul,,,,SDH,,23,,,PPH,,2
,,,,KKH,,19,,,MMH,,12,
,,,,CCH,,22,,,MNH,,19,
,,,,TCH,,55,,,NNH,,67,... (3 Replies)
Hi All,
I am stuck with this requirement. My requirement is that a job will run daily at anytime before and would look for a file named filename.txt in a folder and mv to a different folder and if not found until 9 A.M it will exit with a success code.
Now I did the follwing ..but there... (8 Replies)
I have absolutely no idea how to do this and everything I have done doesn't even come close.
Here's the scenario:
There are a number of files in a folder named in this manner:
agd.txt
stv.txt
frk.txt
dqp.txt
There is also a series of other files in the same folder with like file... (5 Replies)
I have a text file which contains lines in this format - it contains 105 lines in total, but I'm just putting 4 here to keep it short:
58571,east_ppl_ppla_por
58788,east_pcy_hd_por
58704,east_pcy_ga_por
58697,east_pcy_pcybs_por
It's called id_key.txt
I have a sample folder called... (9 Replies)
hello,
File 1
main Group sub group
MIT VAR_1D_DATA_TYPE 23-03-2012
MIT VAR_1D_DATA_TYPE 22-03-2012
MIT VAR_10D_DATA_TYPE 23-03-2012
MIT VAR_10D_DATA_TYPE 22-03-2012
MIT ... (0 Replies)
Hi,
I want to read folders which do not have a file "processing" in a for loop ordered by timestamp.
Currently im doing like this.
Like
cd /home/working
for i in `ls -c1`
do
some command...
done
I want to exclude folders which have that "processing" file.
The directory... (2 Replies)
Hi All,
Need a for loop which should run for number of files in a folder and should pass the file name as parameter to another shell script for each loop.
Please help me.
Thanks. (2 Replies)
I have two files like this:
fileA.net
A
B
C
fileA.dat
1
2
3
and I want the output
output_expected
A 1
B 2
C 3
I know that the easier way is to do a paste fileA.net fileA.dat, but the problem is that I have 10,000 couple of files (fileB.net with fileB.dat; fileC.net with... (3 Replies)