1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, I have a script which accepts a parameter which can either be blank, a specific value, or a wildcard value. But it never seems to be blank and the wildcard option seems to return the names of matching files in my directory. This happens even with the worlds simplest script that just... (1 Reply)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Anyone could give me an example of scrip to move blank files found into a dir? Thanks, Leandro Takeda (3 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi gurus, I have this file with blank lines in it. How do i remove them in shell? I tried these commands but not working: sed '/^ *$/d' or sed '/^$/d' Anybody has a better idea pls? Also there are lines which starts with a single space, how do we remove the space in those lines?... (3 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

I am calling SQL script in my UNIX Shell script and trying to create the CSV file and my last column value of each row is 23 blank spaces. In my SQL script,the last column is like below. RPAD(' ',23,' ') -- Padding 23 blank Spaces The CSV file is generated but the sapce(23 spaces) is... (2 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, I want to create a shell script which dynamically create text files. i am using the following script $i=1 while do cat > test_$i.txt done but while running the script it was stopping(the cursor not going to next step, i have to enter ctrl+c to make it stop). it is creating only... (2 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I did the following script: DIR=`pwd`;for i in `find . -name GESTION -type d`;do cd $i/..;setfacl -R -m g:directores:rwx, GESTION;echo $DIR'/'$i;cd $DIR;done This code do the following actions: 1. Starting inside a folder, it's searching for any folder called "GESTION" 2. Every time... (3 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Can someone help to transform the below logic into a shell script, might be easy for some of you. I have a file with below text, I need if the line has the ":" and the above to it is not a blank line should print " <text>: is incorrect format" Apple: vitamin = A... (0 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

I am trying to FTP files to a Windows server through my Linux machine. I have setup the file transfer with no problems but am having problem deleting those files from the Linux box. My current non-working solution is below. Any ideas, anyone?? :wall: Please be gentle, I'm fairly new to this... (4 Replies)

9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I want to have a string which has n blank spaces For example set N = 3 create str = " " So the length depends on the value of N. I am in tcsh. (4 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have below file. I want to remove space at begining of every line and then after also remove blank line from file. I use below code for each operation. sed -e 's/^*//' < check.txt > check1.txt sed '/^\s*$/d' < check1.txt > check2.txt above code not remove all the space... (12 Replies)