1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all; i was asked to install an inventory tool on our Reliant Unix 5.45 server. I downloaded the file from our intratnet. It was always failing when i try to install it. After some investigation i saw that the installation script had something strange. When i "cat <script>" i see nothing... (2 Replies)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Is there any cut or awk function that would allow me to take the last part of a path away and save the list into a file? I wrote: find $HOME -mtime +3 > fileList cat fileList /home/102/s/jn/folder/HW /home/102/s/jn/otherfolder/B.txt /home/102/s/jn/folder4/3dA/w... (1 Reply)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

echo $line|cut -d " " -f`$plannedCount`- and this is the output $ ./read.sh ./read.sh: 12: not found JADE TRADER 143W MYPEN 40 HC M X10 28 7 1 0 ./read.sh: 9: not found MYPEN 20 GP X X10 15 2 1 0 ./read.sh: 9: not found MYPEN 40 GP X X10 28 7 1 0 ./read.sh: 9: not found MYPEN 20... (6 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Dear All, Is there a way to cut the lines that have been "head" Here is what i m trying to do Please advice there is file name dummy.txt now i am trying to head this file 4 time by using a loop and every time this file is head with different values e.g in first instance it will... (7 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

I just have a couple of quick questions. I am having trouble with this cut. I am basically trying to cut the string so that i can insert the users guess at the appropriate point in the string. $letters is the character count of the $word. What it seems to do is cut the character into the... (0 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all I have a string variable ${WHERE_SQL1} where i want to cut the first value of a variable. Eg ${WHERE_SQL1} = 'Where a.id =.................' I the string to be 'a.id =.......' Thanks in advance (2 Replies)

7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Condition1; If NPID and IndID of both input1 and input2 are same take all the vaues relevant to them and print together as output Condition2; IDNo in output: Take the highly repeated same letter of similar NPID-IndID as *1* Second highly repeated same letter... (0 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello all! This is my first post and I'm very new to programming. I would like help creating a simple perl or bash script that I will be using in my work as a junior bioinformatician. Essentially, I would like to take a tab-delimted or .csv text with 3 columns and write them to a "3D" matrix: ... (16 Replies)

9. Red Hat

Cheers! In /etc/syslog.conf, if an error type is not specified, is it logged anywhere (most preferable is it logged to /var/log/messages) or not? To be more precise I am interested in error and critical level messages. At default these errors are not specified in syslog.conf, and I need to... (6 Replies)

10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I have a text file (allWords.txt), that I would like to search through. Here is a snippet of what it looks like... a aah aahed aahing aahs aardvark aardvarks aardwolf ab abaci aback abacus abacuses abaft ...... I would like to use the grep search to search, line by line, for... (8 Replies)