I understand how to use a variable in a sed command, but for the life of me I can't get the output into a variable.
I'm making a general function to replace part of a filename with a different string, so:
>>myscript this that
would change:
this_file001.txt to that_file001.txt and... (11 Replies)
Hi All,
Hope someone can advise here as I have been struggling to find a syntax that works here. I have tried a stack of combination I have seed in the forums but I think because I have needed to use "" and `` in the statments another method is found.
I am reading in lines with the following... (1 Reply)
Hi all,
Hope someone can help me out here.
I have this BASH script (see below)
My problem lies with the variable path.
The output of the command find will give me several fields. The 9th field is the path. I want to captured that and the I want to filter this to a specific level.
The... (6 Replies)
hi i want to find the size of a folder and assign it to a variable and then compare if it is greater than 1 gb.
i am doin this script, but it is throwing error....
#!/bin/ksh
cd . | du -s | size = awk '{print $1}'
if size >= 112000
then
echo size high
fi
ERROR : (4 Replies)
Hi,
I have a problem with passing a echo output into a variable in bash
file='1990.tar'
NAME='echo $file | cut -d '.' -f1';
echo $NAME
the result is
echo $file | cut -d . -f1
however with this one,#!/bin/bash
file='1990.tar'
echo $file | cut -d '.' -f1
the result is what I... (2 Replies)
I have a variable $WORDS that contains a string
Then i want to use sed to break it up.
echo $WORDS | sed 's// /g'
I tried setting this as a variable by doing
WORDS2=`echo $WORDS | sed 's// /g'`
But when i do this it does not return me to the prompt properly
ie.
jmpprd-v1>
jmpprd-v1>... (4 Replies)
Hello all,
I wrote this command line for some calculation on my given input files based on another input file which is a txt file.
while read BAM REGION; do samtools view $BAM $REGION | awk '{if ($2==0) print $0}' | wc -l >>log.txt; echo "$REGION"; done >> log.txt <regions.txt
It takes... (4 Replies)
Hi Experts,
I am trying to get system output to capture inside awk , but not working:
Please advise if this is possible :
I am trying something like this but not working, the output is coming wrong:
echo "" | awk '{d=system ("date") ; print "Current date is:" , d }'
Thanks, (5 Replies)
Hello,
I've been trying to find the answer to this with Google and trying to browse the forums, but I haven't been able to come up with anything. If this has already been answered, please link me to the thread as I can't find it.
I've been asked to write a script that pulls a list of our CPE... (51 Replies)
Hi,
I am generating a YAML file from a hosts file, but am having trouble saving it to a new file.
hosts file
127.0.0.1 localhost
192.168.1.2 host1
192.168.1.3 host2
192.168.1.4 host3
192.168.1.5 host4
YAML file
$ echo 'host_entries:' && awk '{printf " %s:\n ip:... (3 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
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COLORS(3) libbash colors Library Manual COLORS(3)NAME
colors -- libbash library for setting tty colors.
SYNOPSIS
colorSet <color>
colorReset
colorPrint [<indent>] <color> <text>
colorPrintN [<indent>] <color> <text>
DESCRIPTION
General
colors is a collection of functions that make it very easy to put colored text on tty.
The function list:
colorSet Sets the color of the prints to the tty to COLOR
colorReset Resets current tty color back to normal
colorPrint Prints TEXT in the color COLOR indented by INDENT (without adding a newline)
colorPrintN The same as colorPrint, but trailing newline is added
Detailed interface description follows.
Available colors:
Green
Red
Yellow
White
The color parameter is non-case-sensitive (i.e. RED, red, ReD, and all the other forms are valid and are the same as Red).
FUNCTIONS DESCRIPTIONS
colorSet <color>
Sets the current printing color to color.
colorReset
Resets current tty color back to normal.
colorPrint [<indent>] <color>
Prints text using the color color indented by indent (without adding a newline).
Parameters:
<indent>
The column to move to before start printing. This parameter is optional. If ommitted - start output from current cursor position.
<color>
The color to use.
<color>
The text to print.
colorPrintN [<indent>] <color>
The same as colorPrint, except a trailing newline is added.
EXAMPLES
Printing a green 'Hello World' with a newline:
Using colorSet:
$ colorSet green
$ echo 'Hello World'
$ colorReset
Using colorPrint:
$ colorPrint 'Hello World'; echo
Using colorPrintN:
$ colorPrintN 'Hello World'
AUTHORS
Hai Zaar <haizaar@haizaar.com>
Gil Ran <gil@ran4.net>
SEE ALSO ldbash(1), libbash(1)Linux Epoch Linux