1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi guys, How would i check a file exists with certainprefix? i have a directory with some files: ABC1 ABC2 ABC3 etc.. and want to do: please note i am using the korn shell environment.As when i gone through some stuff on then net i came to know some of the options will work... (11 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I have a variable, which contains comma separated values. Something like. StringA="abc,def,ghi,jkl" I want to apply prefix and suffix to each value in the string without using any loops. Say if Prefix is Pre_ and Suffix is _Suf then I need to get ... (1 Reply)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all, i have a shell script invoking a pl/sql proc which then, generates a file in a format DATA-26-12-2009.txt. The shell script is configured as a cron job to run once a day. If i need to run the script more than once, i need to suffix the generated file with a two digit running... (4 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I'm using a .ksh script to split one file into multible files by checking for the prefix per line. It works perfekt (thanks again for anyone involved in helping me with that ;)), but I want to remove the prefix per line too. Means only the line information itself should remain in the... (7 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I'm new about shell scripting, and I need to do something like abcd **1234** efgh by abcd '''1234''' efgh I know that command sed helps about change one string by another, but I dont know how to keep whatever is inside **_** and replace * with '. Thanks! (5 Replies)

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I have a directory full of personal files named similar to the following: 043 fflshju 923- osfjpojfsa 1 - oasfns.txt:wall: What I would like to do is strip any leading numbers, spaces, dashes (etc.).. and leave only the main section of the name. For example, the preceeding list would be... (1 Reply)

7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I have a file that has the words I want to find in other files (but lets say I just want to find my words in a single file). Those words are IDs, so if my word is ZZZ4, outputs like aaZZZ4, ZZZ4bb, aaZZZ4bb, ZZ4, ZZZ, ZyZ4, ZZZ4.8 (or anything like that) WON'T BE USEFUL. I need the whole word... (6 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

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9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, Below script used for sftp get, #/bin/bash USER=xxx PASS=xxx HOST=xxx REMOTE_FILE=$1 LOCAL_FILE_LOC=$2 cd $LOCAL_FILE_LOC lftp sftp://$USER:$PASS@$HOST:10022 -e "get $REMOTE_FILE; bye" If file does not exist in sftp server, and file (same as remote file name) exists in local dir,... (4 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Dear All, assume i have a file with content: <Start>6000</Start> <Stop>7599</Stop> the output is: 6000 7000 7100 7200 7300 7400 7599 how should we use any awk, sed, perl can do this task, means to extract the uniq prefixes from the start and stop prefix. Thanks Jimmy (3 Replies)