neutronscott solution is the % (Remove matching suffix pattern) expansion not replace. It happens to product the same result in this case. The replace version should be:
I'll try and highlight the difference here:
In the 3rd example will replace the last slash with Z
In the 4th example we try and delete /Z from end of string (no match, so nothing deleted).
Last edited by Chubler_XL; 05-06-2015 at 12:31 AM..
Hi
I'd like to achieve the ff functionality;
tail -f log | grep keyword ...... and then perform a function.
That is, I like to tail a log and when a certain keyword appears I then want my script to play an audio file for example.
Any ideas??
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M (1 Reply)
Hi,
I have a path like this c:\test\sample\programs, i need to change thiis to c:\\test\\sample\\programs. How to perform this? I tried tr command but it didn't help me.
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Vijayan (3 Replies)
Hi all,
I need to know way of inserting backward slash before forward slash. My problem is that i need to supply directory path as an argument while invoking cshell script. This argument is further used in script (i.e. sed is used to insert this path in some file). So i need to place \ in front... (2 Replies)
I have a log file which contains data like this
This log file is updated twice a day at 7am and 6pm,
I want a script(which i will make run at 7:10am and 6:10pm) which should fetch only the last appended lines since last update..
I mean.. if i execute the script at 7.10am 3/3/2010
it... (4 Replies)
Hi.
I have a log file which gets updated by a java process and it uses ASCII STX and ETX characters (i.e CTRL-B and CTRL-C characters) to demarcate each XML message logged.
so the format of the file is something like
STX XML_MESSAGE1
..
..
ETX STX XML_MESSAGE2
..
..
ETX
each XML... (4 Replies)
tail -f /var/log/syslog | egrep -c FATAL
is there a way to do the above and actually have the number of lines matching the pattern increment as it is logged to the log file?
for instance, when you invoke a command like the one i just posted, you'll not get the total lines unless you do... (4 Replies)
my current code:
varA=$(tail -200 /var/log/data.txt | egrep -c "Capital|capitol")
varB=$(tail -200 /var/log/data.txt | egrep -c "State|Country")
varC=$(tail -200 /var/log/data.txt | egrep -c "City|Town")
I want to do this a different way. something like:
AllVars=$(echo $(tail -200... (5 Replies)
if the last line of an output contains a certain string 'FAILED', i want to print 200 lines from the output.
here's where I got stuck:
process blah blah blah | awk '{if ($0 ~ /FAILED/) y=x "\n" $0; x=$0};END{print y}'
the above only prints the last 2 lines, and it also searches the... (19 Replies)
When I specify a directory by name the leading ./ is not shown:
$ find somedir/
somedir/a.bin
somedir/target/out.binBut when I specify current dir it adds the ./ to the beginning of each result:
$ find . | grep somedir
./somedir/a.bin
./somedir/target/out.binIs there any particular reason why... (2 Replies)
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uuid_unparse
UUID_UNPARSE(3) Libuuid API UUID_UNPARSE(3)NAME
uuid_unparse - convert an UUID from binary representation to a string
SYNOPSIS
#include <uuid/uuid.h>
void uuid_unparse(uuid_t uu, char *out);
void uuid_unparse_upper(uuid_t uu, char *out);
void uuid_unparse_lower(uuid_t uu, char *out);
DESCRIPTION
The uuid_unparse function converts the supplied UUID uu from the binary representation into a 36-byte string (plus tailing '