Oh, you want to run the file directly after doing it?
You use the bash or sh command for that.
Of course, it would be better to not edit your scripts in microsoft notepad. Editing your UNIX scripts in UNIX with a UNIX editor would avoid the non-UNIX carriage returns...
Hi All,
I want to create a command that executes a text editor with the most recent file in the current current directory.
So a good start to achieve this is :
ls -lrt | cut -c55- | tail -1
which provides the name of the most recent file in a directory
The problem is to pipe the... (4 Replies)
current dir :
/home/sales
ls -l
abc.txt 17th aug
bcd .txt 16t oct
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Total files : 100
if i want to move only those files dated 17 aug into another sub directory /home/sales/texas
how do i pipe the result of 'ls' command to a 'mv' command (1 Reply)
How can I configure it?
I have a swedish keyboard with swedish keyboard setting. Everything works perfectly (едц) except that button. What can be wrong?
/Richard
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NOTE: It seems like the computer notices the input but that the button isn't assigned to anything (the keyboard-cursor stops).... (1 Reply)
Hi My friends
I have used this command to find files are modified within the past 24 hours
and then many files are shown but I want transfer all these files to special directory by using pipe .
can any one tell me what is the next step ? (11 Replies)
I am confused over piping. :confused:
A | B
Will A and B run at the same time? or must A finish running before B starts to run?
Suppose I want to do the following:
sqlplus ... | split -1000 - filename_
sqlplus will return 1million rows, I want write the output into files of 1000... (4 Replies)
problem with piping one output to another.Would like to avoid the intermediate file creation.The piping does nt work on places where files have been created and goes in an endless loop.
sed -e "s/^\.\///g" $LINE1| sed -e "s/_\(\)/kkk\1/g" > $file1
tr -s '_' ' ' < $file1| \
sort -n -k... (1 Reply)
Hi all,
I have an gawk script to get user's input, So I use
getline name < "-" (or getline name < "/dev/stdin") in my script
They both work fine when my script deals with files. But it is broken for pipes.
When I try "some command | my awk script", the variable name just gets an empty... (17 Replies)
Hi,
I'm trying to write a script that checks gvfs to see if a mount exists so I can run it from network-manager's status hooks. I thought I'd pipe the output of gvfs-mount -l to grep for the particular mounts I care about. When I do this in a bash script:
cmnd="gvfs-mount -l | grep -i... (4 Replies)
Hi!
I actually got it running, but I still would like to understand, why and how, since I am a beginner in bash scripting. I Need floating numbers and thus use bc in my bash script. Here it is:
#!/bin/bash
num1="10^-15" | bc -l #power function piped to bc - DOES NOT WORK
echo $num1... (4 Replies)