Hi,
I am trying to write a script which will loop until a certain action has been performed. I have two files i would like to compares.
For example:
file1 has a list of user ids (about 900) from the company's e-mail server.
file2 has a list of user ids (about 50 or so) from... (7 Replies)
Can I use search & replace in any variable?
Suppose I have one variable named var1 which holds value "abcabc" I need to search 'a' in var1 and want to replace with 'x' like 'xbcxbc'. Is it possible? Can you provide me an example?
Malay (3 Replies)
Surely there's an easier way to do this, lets see if anyone knows! I am new to scripting so go easy on me!
I have the following script and at the moment it doesn't work and I believe the problem is that I am using a while loop within a while loop. When I run the script using sh -x I can see... (6 Replies)
I want to instert Category:XXXXX into the 2. line
something like this should work, but I have somewhere the wrong sytanx. something with the linebreak goes wrong:
sed "2i\\${n}Category:$cat\n"
Sample:
Titel Blahh Blahh abllk sdhsd sjdhf
Blahh Blah Blahh
Blahh
Should look like... (2 Replies)
Hi, I need some help to figure out why an outer for loop KSH variable does not decode in AWK but inner for loop does. Below is my code,
If I hard code variable 'SUBSEQ' in AWK it works but if I try to pass the SUBSEQ from KSH, it does not and when I pass the variable 'NAM' from KSH it works: I... (1 Reply)
I have tried everything I can think of to get sed to change line N of a file to the contents of a variable. I have Googled the Internet, and I find lots of people telling how to use variables with the "Substitute" command, but no one telling how to use variables with the "Change" command.
I... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I've a requirement where I want to re-assign the value in the variable through which FOR LOOP loops.
For e.g.
Snippet of code
---------------
for i in $var
do
echo $i >> $tempFile
var=`echo $another_var | awk -F" " '{print $1}'`
done
I am re-assigning var so... (2 Replies)
Hi All,
I've been researching this problem and I am pretty sure that the issue is related to the while loop and the piping. There are plenty of other threads about this issue that recommend removing the pipe and using redirection. However, I haven't been able to get it working using the ssh and... (1 Reply)
I have a below syntax its working fine...
var12=$(ps -ef | grep apache | awk '{print $2,$4}')
Im getting expected output as below:
printf "%b\n" "${VAR12}"
dell 123
dell 456
dell 457
Now I wrote a while loop.. the output of VAR12 should be passed as input parameters to while loop and results... (5 Replies)
Hello,
Below I try to control that the input is good an IP :
#!/bin/bash
cp /home/scripts/choice_interfaces.txt /home/scripts/interfaces.txt
chmod 644 /home/scripts/interfaces.txt
echo -e "Please enter the network informations into the /etc/network/interfaces file, complete them below... (9 Replies)