1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I am attempting to pass a string into awk and loop through it, and then for every occurrance of a certain character perform an action. In this case, for example, echo 1 for each time character r is found in the string. Except I can't get it to work. Could someone please tell me why? echo... (7 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi Can someone please tell me what is wrong with this (ksh).. if + ]] then echo ${COMP_TEMP} fi What i need here is, say if the variable is a 1 or 2 digit number, then execute the if loop. Basically the variable can either be 1-30 or some other character sequence say '?', '&&'... (4 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, I have been trying to format a file using sed. I can't seem to get the syntax right. I want to append the string from file1.txt to file1.csv with the final output file being file2.csv, but before the string is appended to the end of each line, first insert a comma. Here is the sed... (2 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

for example this string: gLZMQp8i Loop become easy if we add space between each char, How to do it? or other solutions are welcome. (9 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, Can anyone help with the problem below? I need to read all text files (file1, file2, file3) in a loop and find file1.txt: file2.txt: File3.txt: (7 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, First post, so I hope someone can help me with this weirdness :) I have a number files with some rows of information I want to extract, at the same time I want to add to a string some details from the file. I have found two different ways of looping over rows in a file, but one method... (5 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Dear All, i facing problem to use string having spaces in for loop.. file used for FOR LOOP command.txt rpm -t -v ttm -D -r RJLL -h YELP rpm -t -v ttm -D -r RJLL -h ERRT rpm -t -v ttm -D -r RJLL -h TYYE rpm -t -v ttm -D -r RJLL -h POOL CODE using for execute above command... (3 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi i am very new to shell scripting. I have got stuck on a portion on my script. Problem : I have 30 logfiles inside /home/test directory. I need to find the string "@ended today" in all the 30 logfiles and print the name of the files which did not have this string. i need to this by... (3 Replies)

9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I am using a perl script to reverse and complement sequences if a string is found. The script works as expected as standalone but I would like to use it in my bash file. However, I am not getting my expected result. My test.txt file >Sample_72... (8 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I have a below sql query. select * from table where name in ('${name}); I have a requirement to automate this as here i need to pass the string value name from txt file. The text file contains the differnet special characters and i have some 200 names in the text file as follows. 3"... (3 Replies)