I need the line printed with echo to append to eof of to exactly line, am i able to do that?
i mean
echo "sysctl -w lalala=1" > to end of file /etc/sysctl.conf
or to the 21st line, if the line exist, open new line and insert text there.
Thx.maybe i'm in wrong topic but anyway... (2 Replies)
without using ls, just using echo so purely pattern matching
I can say echo */ <-- lists directories
but how would I match files? surely something like *!/ or * but neither work ?
it seems like there isn't much that I can put in but surely i should be able to put any ascii... (1 Reply)
Hello All,
I'm very new to scripting and I'm writing a very simple script to restart a couple processes because I'm getting to lazy to cd between directories.
This is pretty much my first script and I just want to add a little cosmetics to it.
Here's what I have:
#!/bin/ksh
echo... (5 Replies)
Hallo,
I need to test a String (a special ip number-string).
So I want to run that:
ipadress=172.0.0.0
# for debugging:
echo $ipadress | egrep -e '172\.?\.??\.??$'
# the test that doesnt work
if test -z `echo $ipadress | egrep -e '172\.?\.??\.??$'` != ""
then
echo "match"
else... (1 Reply)
I have entry in the my .profile like below, but still i see $PWD is not defied in my system
export PS1=$LOGNAME@`hostname`':'$PWD'>'
echo $PWD also gives me nothing, my env list also give no entry for PWD.Can someone help me setting PWD variable.
I use /bin/sh (9 Replies)
Hi:
how come this command does not work? the error message is:
xargs: cd: No such file or directory
yet, in the same time, 'echo dir_path | xargs ls' works.
Does it work in bash? We use csh.
Thanks.
NB Phil (7 Replies)
Hi,
When I run:
echo "\033I see hi in color, but if I run this color is not shown, why?
(echo "\033Thanks
Israel.
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DONE!!
I had to run more -v.
Thanks (4 Replies)
Hi,when I run my first shell script,I got something that doesn't work right.
I wrote this code in the script.
echo -e "Hello,World\a\n"But the screen print like this:
-e Hello,World
The "-e" wasn't supposed to be printed out.
Can anyone help me out?:wall:
Many thanks!:) (25 Replies)
Hello,
I have to add a new line at the end of a File on Solaris-System:
I think my script should be right, because I evaluated it to other threads. However the script does not what I am expected it should do.
My file might look like this:
Line1
Line2
Line3
And my script could... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: Timo_HR
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LEARN ABOUT SUSE
echo
ECHO(1) User Commands ECHO(1)NAME
echo - display a line of text
SYNOPSIS
echo [SHORT-OPTION]... [STRING]...
echo LONG-OPTION
DESCRIPTION
Echo the STRING(s) to standard output.
-n do not output the trailing newline
-e enable interpretation of backslash escapes
-E disable interpretation of backslash escapes (default)
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
If -e is in effect, the following sequences are recognized:
NNN the character whose ASCII code is NNN (octal)
\ backslash
a alert (BEL)
backspace
c produce no further output
f form feed
new line
carriage return
horizontal tab
v vertical tab
NOTE: your shell may have its own version of echo, which usually supersedes the version described here. Please refer to your shell's docu-
mentation for details about the options it supports.
AUTHOR
Written by Brian Fox and Chet Ramey.
REPORTING BUGS
Report echo bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for echo is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and echo programs are properly installed at your site, the
command
info coreutils 'echo invocation'
should give you access to the complete manual.
GNU coreutils 7.1 July 2010 ECHO(1)