1. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a file named xyz_extract_file_20091201.dat and I need to strip out 20091201 from the file name and append this value as a first field in all the records in the file. Can you please help? Thanks. Eg. Input File: xyz_extract_file_20091201.dat ------------ Campaign1,A2347,Grp_id1... (1 Reply)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi There! I'm trying to write a shell script which generates a random hexadecimal number and then appends it to the end of lines XX onwards of a certain file. XX is determined by a certain string on the previous line. Thus for example, if the input file is I search for the string... (3 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello all, I want to use sed to append a variable stored in $i, how do i do that? $i contains a path to a directory and i want to append it before the result i get from awk statement, before affecting awk results. rite now out put i get from code below is:- The path is:... (2 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello- I have a variable which contains a number, I need to populate number of zeros before another value as per this variable value. for example: I have variable X whose content is 5, variable Y whose content is 123 Now append number of zeros as per variable X before varible 'Y'... (4 Replies)

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I want to build an array using awk, consisting only of a subset of lines of a file. I know how to have awk assess whether a key phrase is in a particular line, but I can't find anywhere how to then append the line containing that phrase to an array that has previously-found lines also containing... (9 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

I want to append values to same string variable inside a recursive function that I have .. I do not want to write to any file but use a variable.. Can anyone please help with it? Thanks in advance. (6 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I have a variable... it can take a value from 1 to 99... now when it is 1 to 9 i want to save it as 01 to 09 in the same variable... can this be done using sed or awk??? a=1 i want it as a=01 Thanks in advance... (8 Replies)

8. Programming

I am struck in the code of handling multiple files reading and appending it into a variable. My First file's entire content I have concatenated using strcat(<char pointer>,char array) In the Second file I extract using strtstr() function and below is the code. if( fp2 != NULL){ ... (2 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi Guys, IF i have to append data to a variable, i simply use the following. What can i do to append data to the beginning? VAR+="data" (6 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, Can you please if the bellow is the proper way of appending a variable to the stderr: The easiest way to test this,I was able to imagine, was by touching 5 files and afterwards looping trough to the results: -rw-r--r-- 1 ab owner 0 Sep 14 13:45 file1 -rw-r--r-- 1 ab owner 0 Sep... (7 Replies)