thanks so far for your replies. I kind of have the feeling too that it is somehow related to the calls.txt
I thought the minimal example would do the job, but let's give you a more real copy of what I have done:
my.sh :
my calls.txt is just a one liner right now, but later many lines according to the same format shall follow:
so this is exactly a renamed representation of the calls.txt. Sorry for the censorship, but in fact I am currently developing a software tool I am ofc not allowed to share everything in detail :/
I came up with the thoughts of maybe the paths messing it up? I 'll retry with quoting the paths. Other ideas?
Hi All,
I'll get a file whose 2nd line contains 3 fields: filename(variable length), file size char(10), and record count int(10). How do I cut it and put it into 3 variables?
eg: abcd.csv01234567891111111111
now I want: $one = abcd.csv, $two = 0123456789, $three = 1111111111.
I also... (8 Replies)
I would like to make a script to read three variables (no fixed length or position) from a line and write them into a file, with fixed length and right-justified in each column. The fixed text (text1-text4) prior to the thee variables and the variables themselves are originally separated by spaces... (3 Replies)
I need to save my enviroment variables,specially the $PATH.When I put it on .cshrc at next reboot I lost the configuration.How can avoid this?Thanks (2 Replies)
I have one line files with 17 records separated by a semi-colon. I need to create a variable from each record, which I can do via a separate awk for each one, but I know there has to be a better way. Along with pulling out the variable, I need to convert some url coding like a + to a space, etc.... (4 Replies)
Hi All,
I have a file, let's call it "info.tmp" that contains data like this ..
ABC123456
PCX333445
BCD789833
I need to read "info.tmp" and for each line add strings in a way that the final output is
put /logs/ua/dummy.trigger 'AAA00001.FTP.XXX.BLA03A01.xxxxxx(+1)'
where XXX... (5 Replies)
Hey all,
Unfortunately I have only basic knowledge of awk and/or scripting. If I have a file with lines that can look similar to this:
Name=line1 Arg1=valueA Arg2=valueB Arg3=valueC
Name=line2 Arg1=valueD
Name=line3 Arg1=valueE Arg3=valueF
Name=line4 Arg2=valueG ... (4 Replies)
How can I read a string delimited on spaces and assign the fields to incremented variables.
For example:
Given $exts= txt dat mov
I want to read in $exts and have "txt" "dat" and "mov" assigned to incremented variables like $ext1, $ext2, etc. I would like to do this in a loop so that I can... (4 Replies)
Hi,
This is my first post here and I am a newbie. :)
I have a file that looks like this :
Introduction:Intro_123.html
Product definition:Prod_def.html
System Setup:SSetup-64bit.html
Setting up user accounts:Set_user_acc.html
I tried to create a script that would output "The filename... (3 Replies)
Hey guyz,
I have a table which shows the presence or absence of my variables (A,B,C,...) in my observations (1,2,3,...)
* A B C ...
1 1 0 1
2 1 1 0
3 1 0 0
...
I want to calculate the co-presence of my variables. to have a table shows the pairwise presence of the variables (have... (1 Reply)
Hello
Just edited the entry to make it easier to understand what i want
How can i achieve this: GOAL:
read 2 field from a table with PSQL
result of this PSQL command is this
INSTALLEDLANG=$(su - postgres -c "psql -A -t -q -c -d ${DBNAME} -t -c 'SELECT code, iso_code from res_lang'")
... (0 Replies)
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read
read(1) General Commands Manual read(1)NAME
read - read a line from standard input
SYNOPSIS
var ...
DESCRIPTION
reads a single line from standard input. The line is split into fields as when processed by the shell (refer to shells in the first field
is assigned to the first variable var, the second field to the second variable var, and so forth. If there are more fields than there are
specified var operands, the remaining fields and their intervening separators are assigned to the last var. If there are more vars than
fields, the remaining vars are set to empty strings.
The setting of variables specified by the var operands affect the current shell execution environment.
Standard input to can be redirected from a text file.
Since affects the current shell execution environment, it is usually provided as a normal shell special (built-in) command. Thus, if it is
called in a subshell or separate utility execution environment similar to the following, it does not affect the shell variables in the
caller's environment:
Options
recognizes the following options:
Do not treat a backslash character in any special way.
Consider each backslash to be part of the input line.
Opperands
recognizes the following operands:
var The name of an existing or nonexisting shell variable.
EXTERNAL INFLUENCES
Environment Variables
determines the internal field separators used to delimit fields.
RETURN VALUE
exits with one of the following values:
0 Successful completion.
>0 End-of-file was detected or an error occurred.
EXAMPLES
Print a file with the first field of each line moved to the end of the line.
while read -r xx yy
do
printf "%s %s
" "$yy" "$xx"
done < input_file
SEE ALSO csh(1), ksh(1), sh(1), sh-posix(1).
STANDARDS CONFORMANCE read(1)