For a shell that has both select and arrays (neither of which are required by the standards), the following seems to work, if I correctly understand what you're trying to do:
Shells that provide both select and arrays include recent bash and 1993 or later versions of ksh (there may be others). This has been tested with both ksh (version: 93u+ 2012-08-01) and bash (version: 3.2.57(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin15)).
Last edited by Don Cragun; 07-26-2016 at 05:30 PM..
Reason: Optimize away a call to printf.
Write a quick shell snippet to find all of the IPV4 IP addresses
in any and all of the files under /var/lib/output/*, ignoring
whatever else may be in those files. Perform a reverse lookup on
each, and format the output neatly, like "IP=192.168.0.1,
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I have a file with hundreds of records and I need to find those records that have three digits at the beginning and the same three digits at the end.
$GREP '\(\)\(\)\(\)\3\2\1'I
believe this is part of the script but I am not sure how to compare these 3 digits with the 3 digits at the end of... (2 Replies)
Hi there, im sure this is really simple but i have some strings like this
e1000g123001
e1000g0
nge11101
nge3and i want to create two variables ($DRIVER and $INSTANCE). the first one containing the alpha characters that make up the first part of the string, e.g. e1000g or nge and the... (9 Replies)
Hi. I need assistance with the replacing of text into a specific file via a bash script.
My bash script, once run, currently provides a menu of computer names to choose.The script copies onto my system various files, depending what computer was selected in the menu.This is working OK.
Now, I... (1 Reply)
Hi I have a problem, I am attempting to write a bash script that goes through a file and can determine how many characters are at a set point in a line starting with QTY+113:100:PCE, If it detects 3 digits (number in bold) then pad it out with 12 zero's
If there are only two digits then pad it... (8 Replies)
In the below portion of a bash script the user selects a file from a directory.
select file in $(cd /home/cmccabe/Desktop/NGS/API/5-14-2016/bedtools;ls);do break;done
files in directory
123_base_counts.txt
456_base_counts.txt
789_base_counts.txt
second portion of bash currently (user... (4 Replies)
As part of a bash the below line strips off a numerical prefix from directory 1 to search for in directory 2.
for file in /home/cmccabe/Desktop/comparison/missing/*.txt
do
file1=${file##*/} # Strip off directory
getprefix=${file1%%_*.txt}
... (5 Replies)
The bash bash below extracts the oldest folder from a directory and stores it in filename
That result will match a line in bold in input. In the matching line there is an_xxx digit in italics that
(once the leading zero is removed) will match a line in link. That is the lint to print in output.... (2 Replies)
Hey everyone,
I am trying to extract column values from a column in a tab-delimited text file and overlay them in a 2nd tab-delimited text file using a V-lookup type script in Unix bash.
These are the 1st few rows of the 1st input file IN1:
rsid chromosome position allele1 ... (10 Replies)