1. Shell Programming and Scripting

I need to read a file (a list) and assign the value to a variable (for each line), I'm looping until the end of the file. My problem is, I want to assign 2 separate variables from the list. The process I'm using is: awk '{print $3}' file1 > file2 awk '{print $4}' file1 > file3 cat file2... (2 Replies)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello All, I am novice on Shell Scripting. Any help on this is highly appreciated. I have a variable $VARIABLE="$some1|$some2|$some3" I need sub variables $SUBVAR1,$SUBVAR2,$SUBVAR3 which must be equal to $some1 , $some2 and $some3 respectively. It works fine with $SUBVAR1 =... (6 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi , I have a piece of code ...wherein I need to assign the following ... 1) A command line argument to a variable e.g origCount=ARGV 2) A unix command to a variable e.g result=`wc -l testFile.txt` in my awk shell script When I do this : print "origCount" origCount --> I get the... (0 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, Greetings.. I am having a Line of 1600 characters in which each specifi fields have some values. For example 1-5 Firstname 6-8 Age and so on.. I am using `expr substr $line 100,7` to get values from the line and store in seperate variables.. The file contains 70000 lines. It is taking 3... (8 Replies)

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello I need to pass some environment parameters to a datastage job and am getting an error when trying to send the complete concatinated variable. I have decided to parse out just the values and send as parameters but am struggling to find the best way to do this (actually I am not very... (3 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi Can anyone what I am doing wrong while using cut command. for f in *.log do logfilename=$f Log "Log file Name: $logfilename" logfile1=`basename $logfilename .log` flength=${#logfile1} Log "file length $flength" from_length=$(($flength - 15)) Log "from... (2 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

The script must ask the user to enter the user name and check whether the user exists in /etc/passwd (you must allow the partial usernames also). If the username exists, display the details as: List of users Login Name: User ID: ... (3 Replies)

8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

hay i am trying to get JUST the PID from the ps command. my command line is: ps -ef | grep "mintty" | cut -d' ' -f2 but i get an empty line. i assume that the delimiter is not just one space character, but can't figure out what should i do in order to do that. i know i can use awk or cut... (8 Replies)

9. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

I'm a complete beginner in UNIX (and not a computer science student either), just undergoing a tutoring course. Trying to replicate the instructions on my own I directed output of the ls listing command (lists all files of my home directory ) to My_dir.tsv file (see the screenshot) to make use of... (9 Replies)