Always a pleasure to read your posts! Nice way of removing spaces by using arithmetic expansion.
Quote:
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But you can do it without any external commands:
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Other benefits of this method are that it also correctly counts file names that contain newlines (whereas ls|wc -l does not) and that there are no command line length limitations..
Hello everyone,
how can I send output to the screen from a running script or tcl, in such a way that if a loop is executing I will see the rolling counter on my screen as the records are processed in the loop. I do not want the screen to scroll, though. In other words can a var's value be painted... (2 Replies)
Say I have (in psuedocode)
For i=1 to 10
tar cvfb /... 5*i /junk(i)
end
What I mean is that I want each successive for loop to have the block size parameter be 5 times the current counter. This isn't my actual code, just a stupid example...So the question is how do I descrive that parameter... (2 Replies)
1. The problem statement, all variables and given/known data:
Variable is resetting to 0 after incrementing in while loop
My bit of scripting displays the current users logged in the machine.
Then it reads in a specific username and displays the processes for that user.
The portion that I... (3 Replies)
Hi,
hope I am posting in the right section.
My problem is that I have 2 or more arguments passed and I want to check if the arguments passed exists or not.
The first argument should not exist and the remaining others should exist.
example:
./shells.sh argument1 argument2 argument3
... (5 Replies)
Hello Everyone,
I'm in need of assistance on creating a script with a counter on a certain string.
Basically this script opens a log file and displays certain log data. There are two key words in the log. START and FINISH. In between the START and FINISH is a variable ACTNUMBER. It will... (1 Reply)
hello,
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Hi,
I am working on a script where I need to add one functionality i.e. to could the number of tar files at particular location...but the script is working in below way.
1) create sandbox
2) Drop old member function
3) addmember function
4) Apply checkpoint lable
5) Resync operation(This... (1 Reply)
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1. The problem statement, all variables and given/known data:
The program is supposed to read in text from a given file ( different samples provided in the homework but not... (1 Reply)
Hi friends, I just want to try some thing with shell using loop and counter
I have 30 Directory, in each directory number of files say 5, 10, 20 etc...
directory_1
directory_2
directory_n
what I want to do is read files from directory_1 say 5 files
if my counter is like this
m=2000 ... (6 Replies)
#!/usr/bin/ksh
c=0
while ]; do
echo /tmp/unex NOT found, iter : $c;
((c = $c + 1));
sleep 2;
done
so, the above counter doesn't work, already tried both -lt & -gt, and changed || to &&
so what am I missing?
Thanks in advance (5 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT BSD
xargs
XARGS(1) General Commands Manual XARGS(1)NAME
xargs - construct argument list(s) and execute utility
SYNOPSIS
xargs [ -t ][[ -x ] -n number ][ -s size ][ utility [ arguments... ]]
DESCRIPTION
The xargs utility reads space, tab, newline and end-of-file delimited arguments from the standard input and executes the specified utility
with them as arguments.
The utility and any arguments specified on the command line are given to the utility upon each invocation, followed by some number of the
arguments read from standard input. The utility is repeatedly executed until standard input is exhausted.
Spaces, tabs and newlines may be embedded in arguments using single (`` ' '') or double (``"'') quotes or backslashes (``''). Single
quotes escape all non-single quote characters, excluding newlines, up to the matching single quote. Double quotes escape all non-double
quote characters, excluding newlines, up to the matching double quote. Any single character, including newlines, may be escaped by a back-
slash.
The options are as follows:
-n number Set the maximum number of arguments taken from standard input for each invocation of the utility. An invocation of utility will
use less than number standard input arguments if the number of bytes accumulated (see the s option) exceeds the specified size or
there are fewer than number arguments remaining for the last invocation of utility. The current default value for number is
5000.
-s size Set the maximum number of bytes for the command line length provided to utility. The sum of the length of the utility name and
the arguments passed to utility (including /dev/null terminators) will be less than or equal to this number. The current default
value for size is ARG_MAX - 2048.
-t Echo the command to be executed to standard error immediately before it is executed.
-x Force xargs to terminate immediately if a command line containing number arguments will not fit in the specified (or default)
command line length.
If no utility is specified, echo(1) is used.
Undefined behavior may occur if utility reads from the standard input.
The xargs utility exits immediately (without processing any further input) if a command line cannot be assembled, utility cannot be
invoked, an invocation of the utility is terminated by a signal or an invocation of the utility exits with a value of 255.
The xargs utility exits with a value of 0 if no error occurs. If utility cannot be invoked, xargs exits with a value of 127. If any other
error occurs, xargs exits with a value of 1.
SEE ALSO echo(1), find(1)STANDARDS
The xargs utility is expected to be IEEE Std 1003.2("POSIX") compliant.
June 6, 1993 XARGS(1)