1. Shell Programming and Scripting

I want get middle two latter of any string. Input: var="070108" output: var1="01" please help. (2 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi friends! I have a tab delimited file with two columns : GB_45_DRB SP:0139466(mrmi sisignm)|SP:3674(fllflg_itoioh)|SP:68954779(RMTKLGF to emmdm-roomto) GB_45_DRD SP:475928(mgmdksi rikgkg)|SP:587959(roykgl tiic-tm)|SP:0139466(mrmi sisignm)|SP:3674(fllflg_itoioh)|SP:68954779(RMTKLGF to... (4 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I have created a script that has some sql queries in it. It seem to work fine and e-mails me the output file but when i use this command 'col email format a20' it creates a dead.letter file and i never get the e-mail I am using mailx -s command to send out the e-mail. Any help would... (0 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

I use otool on OS X to figure out the shared libraries that a binary uses. I run this command: otool -L /Applications/Vidnik\ 0.13.0/Vidnik.app/Contents/MacOS/Vidnik And it returns an output similar to this: /Applications/Vidnik 0.13.0/Vidnik.app/Contents/MacOS/Vidnik:... (10 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I have a string like this user can specify different query sets that is why "or" is mentioned: $string="]("; or $string="](("; or $string="]((("; or $string="]((((("; (1 Reply)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

How to check whether a particular string contains dot or not? Here I can not use grep as the string is not in a file. I will get this string from user input Thanks, (2 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Is there a way to cnvert first letter alone in a string to upper case. For eg: diamond should be converted to Diamond. Thanks in Advance, Kinny (6 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all, I made a simple script with a prompt menu in Perl. All working good, but I want to add an option while the program is running that on every time when the user press 'Q' the program will exit. I know I can use $SIG{'INT'} or any other %SIG option. This option is a unix signal which I... (3 Replies)

9. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hello, I am trying to grep string with square brackets. for example I want to grep the below string in log.txt file. This is a test thanks in advance. (2 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Is there a way to change each letter of a string to the next one in the alphabet, so that a becomes b and f becomes g, and digits become one unit bigger - 4 becomes 5 and 9 becomes 0. I want to change strings like ben123 to cfo234. (5 Replies)