I was looking for a simple code to suppress the text between 2 characters. the characters can be of same kind like "*" or "(" and ")". The number of characters are not consistent and could vary.
I need to suppress the output to the screen. I am appending to a file so do not need the output on the screen in the CLI environment.
eg.
cat $HOME/somefile >> $HOME/anotherfile
I am doing this a number of times with SQL output files so I can look at the finished file not on the screen in the... (3 Replies)
Hi,
One of our application is producing log files. But if we open the log file in vi or less or view mode, it shows all the special characters in it. The 'cat' shows correctly but it shows only last page. If I do 'cat' <file_name> | more, then again it shows special characters.
... (1 Reply)
I am using this command
find . -type f -mmin "+$t" > holder
Unfortunatley that is also printing files that begin with a period. Such as .bash_history.
What can I do to supress files that begin with a period? (1 Reply)
Hi All
this is a simple script
#! /bin/bash
FileCnt=`ls -lrt $DIR/* | wc -l`
echo $FileCnt
how could i escape the error msg if there are no files in $DIR
ls: /home/sayantan/test/files/cnt/*: No such file or directory
0
Looking forward for a quick reply
Regards, Newbie (2 Replies)
Hi
I am working in ksh and getting the trace after trying to remove the file which in some cases does not exist:
$ my_script
loadfirm.dta.master: No such file or directory
The code inside the script which produces this trace is the following:
] || rm ${FILE}.master >> /dev/null
for... (3 Replies)
Hi
I have a script which connects to oracle using sqlplus
if ! check_sqlplus "$ORACLE_SID" ; then
echo "Unable to use sqlplus for sid $ORACLE_SID"
return 1
else
echo "attempting to connect to database"
echo $ORACLE_HOME
echo $ORACLE_SID
echo "Status before entering... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I am trying to run a script using awk and sed a few times.
The script itself seems to work fine but in a final awk statement it throws up a warning:
awk: warning: escape sequence `\.' treated as plain `.'
script:
... (3 Replies)
Hi Team ,
I want supress the meaning of * while passing it as parameter.
I have file which contains file format and destination directory.
let say abc* |/home/xyz
I had function which will read these values and pass it to another function.
Code looks like below
func1 ()
{... (6 Replies)
After a bash function is run the below file is produced:
out_name.txt tab-delimeted
Input Errors and warnings AccNo Genesymbol Variant Reference Sequence Start Descr. Coding DNA Descr. Protein Descr. GeneSymbol Coding DNA Descr. GeneSymbol Protein Descr. Genomic... (3 Replies)
I am running the ETL job to passing the database username,pssswd positional arguments to shell script (bash) and how can we suppress/hide the password from ps command. (2 Replies)
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wildmat
WILDMAT(3) Library Functions Manual WILDMAT(3)NAME
wildmat - perform shell-style wildcard matching
SYNOPSIS
int
wildmat(text, pattern)
char *text;
char *pattern;
DESCRIPTION
Wildmat is part of libinn (3). Wildmat compares the text against the pattern and returns non-zero if the pattern matches the text. The
pattern is interpreted according to rules similar to shell filename wildcards, and not as a full regular expression such as those handled
by the grep(1) family of programs or the regex(3) or regexp(3) set of routines.
The pattern is interpreted as follows:
x Turns off the special meaning of x and matches it directly; this is used mostly before a question mark or asterisk, and is not spe-
cial inside square brackets.
? Matches any single character.
* Matches any sequence of zero or more characters.
[x...y]
Matches any single character specified by the set x...y. A minus sign may be used to indicate a range of characters. That is,
[0-5abc] is a shorthand for [012345abc]. More than one range may appear inside a character set; [0-9a-zA-Z._] matches almost all of
the legal characters for a host name. The close bracket, ], may be used if it is the first character in the set. The minus sign,
-, may be used if it is either the first or last character in the set.
[^x...y]
This matches any character not in the set x...y, which is interpreted as described above. For example, [^]-] matches any character
other than a close bracket or minus sign.
HISTORY
Written by Rich $alz <rsalz@uunet.uu.net> in 1986, and posted to Usenet several times since then, most notably in comp.sources.misc in
March, 1991.
Lars Mathiesen <thorinn@diku.dk> enhanced the multi-asterisk failure mode in early 1991.
Rich and Lars increased the efficiency of star patterns and reposted it to comp.sources.misc in April, 1991.
Robert Elz <kre@munnari.oz.au> added minus sign and close bracket handling in June, 1991.
This is revision 1.10, dated 1992/04/03.
SEE ALSO grep(1), regex(3), regexp(3).
WILDMAT(3)