I have a ksh script that is a login menu for my end users. I would like to have one line of the welcome message flash when there is a system notice about an impending outage.
The welcome message is a series of echo statements which prints a text file "msg of the day" with the status msg.
I tried... (1 Reply)
I trying to extract certain text from a csv file and then placing it into another csv file, but having problems getting the data to placed in one line with tab separated fields.
Basically would like to have text sent to interfaces.csv in one line seperated by tabs. As it currently places files... (6 Replies)
Hi,
i need replace the slash (/) with a newline (\n) and a tab (\t).
With 'find -type f' in a folder i got this output:
./1999/01/file1
./1999/01/file2
./1999/02/file1
./2000/04/file1
./2000/04/file2
./2000/04/file3
./2000/04/file4
./2000/06/file1
./2000/06/file2
./2000/06/file3... (8 Replies)
I am poor with scripting;)
I have a file in the following format;
'This is a "test in production" of importance.'
I want to get rid of the spaces inside the "" part only to get the output as,
'This is a "testinproduction" of importance.' (1 Reply)
I've been trying to get the syntax right so I can echo a $var and then text around it or after it. It either wont display text or $var or one overwrites the other at the beginning of the line. Trying to do something like this.
var=1
echo $var"+1.1"
#output expected 1+1.1
Its an older... (3 Replies)
Hi,
i need to print following text using echo:
/abc dir/c\
so i tried echo "/abc dir/c\
But it gives me error of Incorrect usage, i am using Hamilton cshell in windows Vista. Can any one please help me.
Thanks in advance
Sarbjit (3 Replies)
Hi all, I am trying to create a script to read my Windows UUIDs and create mounts in fstab. I know there are different and maybe even better ways to mount Windows partitions at boot time, but I always manually create them in fstab successfully. I do a clean install of Ubuntu often and would like to... (2 Replies)
My current line command is as follows:
echo -n "text: " ; grep "blah text" ../dir1/filename | wc -l
The output to the screen is as needed, but how do I print to a text file? (9 Replies)
I have a bash script that starts and stops a game among other things through in.fifo and out.fifo
In game the text comes out gray . Kinda hard to see in game window .
I would like to change it to purple and maybe capitalize it.
#!/bin/bash
#nwservctl.sh
cd... (5 Replies)
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COLORS(3) libbash colors Library Manual COLORS(3)NAME
colors -- libbash library for setting tty colors.
SYNOPSIS
colorSet <color>
colorReset
colorPrint [<indent>] <color> <text>
colorPrintN [<indent>] <color> <text>
DESCRIPTION
General
colors is a collection of functions that make it very easy to put colored text on tty.
The function list:
colorSet Sets the color of the prints to the tty to COLOR
colorReset Resets current tty color back to normal
colorPrint Prints TEXT in the color COLOR indented by INDENT (without adding a newline)
colorPrintN The same as colorPrint, but trailing newline is added
Detailed interface description follows.
Available colors:
Green
Red
Yellow
White
The color parameter is non-case-sensitive (i.e. RED, red, ReD, and all the other forms are valid and are the same as Red).
FUNCTIONS DESCRIPTIONS
colorSet <color>
Sets the current printing color to color.
colorReset
Resets current tty color back to normal.
colorPrint [<indent>] <color>
Prints text using the color color indented by indent (without adding a newline).
Parameters:
<indent>
The column to move to before start printing. This parameter is optional. If ommitted - start output from current cursor position.
<color>
The color to use.
<color>
The text to print.
colorPrintN [<indent>] <color>
The same as colorPrint, except a trailing newline is added.
EXAMPLES
Printing a green 'Hello World' with a newline:
Using colorSet:
$ colorSet green
$ echo 'Hello World'
$ colorReset
Using colorPrint:
$ colorPrint 'Hello World'; echo
Using colorPrintN:
$ colorPrintN 'Hello World'
AUTHORS
Hai Zaar <haizaar@haizaar.com>
Gil Ran <gil@ran4.net>
SEE ALSO ldbash(1), libbash(1)Linux Epoch Linux