1. Shell Programming and Scripting

I want to check if the first argument of my shell script starts with a specifiec string? Any Idea?? Thank u (3 Replies)

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I am have a configuration script that my shell script uses. There is a regular expression defined for the input file. How do execute the shell script and pass the name of the input file using a regular expression. I would greatly appreciate some help. If you could point my to a website that... (1 Reply)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all, I am new to shell scripting. I have dbf file and I need to convert it into csv file. OR, can i read the fields from a .dbf file and OR seprate the records in dbf file and put into .csv or txt. Actually in the .dbf files I am getting , the numbers of fields may vary in very record and... (6 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I have script which will take a string as input and search in a file. But when I want to search a pattern which has special characters script is ignoring it. For example: I want to search a pattern "\.tumblr\.com". shell script is removing \ (backslah) and trying to search... (7 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

I need to write a K shell script to find full file names , line numbers and lines which have words meeting either of following 2 criterias - 1)words which are 6 to 8 character long and alphanumeric. 2)Minimum 8 characters, one upper case, one lower case letter, one of the special characters... (1 Reply)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

hi, I have written a script to search MAC address in a given directory. MAC address would be in format XX.XX.XX.XX. The digits contain hexadecimal numbers. For this i have used grep as follows. grep -rn '^\{1,2\}\.\{1,2\}\.\{1,2\}\.\{1,2\}\$' * This is not working as required.... (17 Replies)

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Hi all, How am I read a file, find the match regular expression and overwrite to the same files. open DESTINATION_FILE, "<tmptravl.dat" or die "tmptravl.dat"; open NEW_DESTINATION_FILE, ">new_tmptravl.dat" or die "new_tmptravl.dat"; while (<DESTINATION_FILE>) { # print... (1 Reply)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

hi i am trying to extract some specific data out of a text file using regular expressions with shell script that is using a multiline grep .. and the tool i am using is pcregrep so that i can get compatibility with perl's regular expressions for a sample data like this, i am trying to grab... (6 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

I do have a shell file where I call many unix commands . I would like to add a regular expression step in that shell file, where a text file, say Test.txt has to be openned and all the :'s should be replaced. Basically apply the follwoing regular expression: :%s/://g to that particular text... (2 Replies)

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Hello Unix Shell Script Experts, I have a script that would mask the columns in .csv file or .txt file. First the script will untar the .zip files from Archive folder and processes into work folder and finally pushes the masked .csv files into Feed folder. Two parameters are passed ... (5 Replies)