printf is a UNIX/Linux command - lives in /usr/bin/printf, on some systems it is part of shell language
The type command is your friend, example in bash shell:
align is perl code that drl suggests. perl runs under bash like awk does. You feed awk a series of awk syntax lines, it executes. perl is the same.
This shows you how to use align: Aligning a file
It is a short script demo. You have to have the align perl code in your current working directory. It can also be in your PATH variable so the system can find it.
The script example also mentions where to download the perl code from
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Hi all,
I have a data file and need to load the data into tables in a database. The problem is I cannot use a while loop with each line as the data is free text and has all kinds of weird characters including carriage returns and new line characters.
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how would i write a shell script to count number of one-line comments in a c++ file.
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Hi All,
I am new to shell scripts. I have a requirement to change the format of a file. Here is the original file:
#student layout
student_name
student_class
student_subject
david
5
chemistry
paul
4
physics
steve
6
mathematics
This is the format i need:
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my question "format file using shell script " is not a homework. bad guess.
my actual file is much more complex. the requirement is to format the file before i can read it from SAP.
so i'd appreciate if any inputs can be provide.
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I have written a shell script to search a specified directory (e.g. /home/user) for a list of specific words (shown as ${TMPDIR}/wordlist below). The script works well enough, but I was wondering if there was a way to display the line number that the word is found on?
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sorry but need help
http://i.investopedia.com/inv/articles/site/CalculationEMA.gif
trying to achieve ema
in script I have this syntax which errors
ema=` ;
the 0.153846154 ='s Smoothing Factor
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How can i frame current date & time in the xml standard dateTime format in shell script
2011-10-18T12:00:00.000000
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Hi---Is there's way can write small shell script or perl script open "abc.txt" file and create new "new_abc.txt" file with format output below? Thanks
cat abc.txt
###########################Readme###############################
Contained with this README.TXT file are all of the
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
shtool-path
SHTOOL-PATH.TMP(1) GNU Portable Shell Tool SHTOOL-PATH.TMP(1)NAME
shtool-path - GNU shtool command dealing with shell path variables
SYNOPSIS
shtool path [-s|--suppress] [-r|--reverse] [-d|--dirname] [-b|--basename] [-m|--magic] [-p|--path path] str [str ...]
DESCRIPTION
This command deals with shell $PATH variables. It can find a program through one or more filenames given by one or more str arguments. It
prints the absolute filesystem path to the program displayed on "stdout" plus an exit code of 0 if it was really found.
OPTIONS
The following command line options are available.
-s, --suppress
Supress output. Useful to only test whether a program exists with the help of the return code.
-r, --reverse
Transform a forward path to a subdirectory into a reverse path.
-d, --dirname
Output the directory name of str.
-b, --basename
Output the base name of str.
-m, --magic
Enable advanced magic search for ""perl"" and ""cpp"".
-p, --path path
Search in path. Default is to search in $PATH.
EXAMPLE
# shell script
awk=`shtool path -p "${PATH}:." gawk nawk awk`
perl=`shtool path -m perl`
cpp=`shtool path -m cpp`
revpath=`shtool path -r path/to/subdir`
HISTORY
The GNU shtool path command was originally written by Ralf S. Engelschall <rse@engelschall.com> in 1998 for Apache. It was later taken
over into GNU shtool.
SEE ALSO shtool(1), which(1).
18-Jul-2008 shtool 2.0.8 SHTOOL-PATH.TMP(1)