I would like to open a text m3u file and add the same string to the beginning of each line. I think I am close, but I cannot figure out how to escape the ampersand in the following code:
The ampersand is part of a folder name and shows up twice.
Many thanks
each line in this text file is a shortened pathname:
I want to add the full path to that file by concatenating two strings.
the rest of the path is:
output should be
and I just noticed the slashes are different, easy to fix with global search and replace
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What is the & for in Unix?? say for example that you have a line in a shellscript that will startup a executable and you have the ampersand at the end of the line, what is it for??
any info you could spare would be much appreciated
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In my program, I'm using argc and argv to accept command line arguments. However, if I have to get the '&' to work i.e. make it run the child as a background process, do I have to write some special code in C or does Unix handle it automatically? If I have to add the special code, how does it look... (2 Replies)
Hi
I am trying to send mail to an email id having ampersand in it.
Like abc.&.xyz@abc.com
But it is not being sent.
I also tried prefixing backslash before and after ampersand
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Please explain the usage of ampersand in the following command
who & echo "Total number of users are `who|wc -l`"
What I understand is that ampersand is used to run some process in the background. And, what I am expecting from this command is
"Output of who should be displayed on the... (2 Replies)
In the terminal, using the ampersand allows the process to run in the background--Emacs, for example. But is there a way to automatically open Emacs as a background process so I can still use the command line? Typing the ampersand is just annoying to me, and I keep forgetting; it's just too useful... (0 Replies)
Hi, for my own interest I want to scrape a lot of data off the Maple Story game rankings page.
The problem is, when I want to get the data at this page
maplestory(dot)nexon(dot)net/Rankings/OverallRanking.aspx?type=overall&s=&world=0&job=0&pageIndex=6
It gives me the data at this page
... (3 Replies)
Gurus,
Thanks so much for your help, in advance.
I'm using ksh and outputting a literal string value to an output file, however, Unix isn't playing by SQL's rules. The ampersand character which I'm trying to disply as a knowledge base link is screwing up the output. Typically, the "&&" is... (1 Reply)
I want to add the character "<" to the end of each line of input using the & function in SED.
Something like:
sed 's/.*/&\</'
It's important to use the &, not another method, because I want to know what I'm doing wrong.
Thanks (5 Replies)
Hello everybody,
I have a Problem with sed command.
I want to replace a defined string with a string from a database field (dynamic).
e.g.
sed -i -e 's/%NAME%/'"$HNAME"'/g'
The Problem is that the $HNAME variable can contain Special characters like '&'
e.g.
HNAME="AH Kruger & Co. KG"
... (1 Reply)
For years I have spawned shell scripts with nohup and ampersand and they run whether or not I stay logged in. Recently a client told us that we had to set a keep alive timeout on all of our Redhat 7.6 Linux servers. Our sysadmin set the following parameters in the sshd_config file on all of our... (10 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS
igawk
IGAWK(1) Utility Commands IGAWK(1)NAME
igawk - gawk with include files
SYNOPSIS
igawk [ all gawk options ] -f program-file [ -- ] file ...
igawk [ all gawk options ] [ -- ] program-text file ...
DESCRIPTION
Igawk is a simple shell script that adds the ability to have ``include files'' to gawk(1).
AWK programs for igawk are the same as for gawk, except that, in addition, you may have lines like
@include getopt.awk
in your program to include the file getopt.awk from either the current directory or one of the other directories in the search path.
OPTIONS
See gawk(1) for a full description of the AWK language and the options that gawk supports.
EXAMPLES
cat << EOF > test.awk
@include getopt.awk
BEGIN {
while (getopt(ARGC, ARGV, "am:q") != -1)
...
}
EOF
igawk -f test.awk
SEE ALSO gawk(1)
Effective AWK Programming, Edition 1.0, published by the Free Software Foundation, 1995.
AUTHOR
Arnold Robbins (arnold@skeeve.com).
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+--------------------+-----------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+--------------------+-----------------+
|Availability | SUNWgawk |
+--------------------+-----------------+
|Interface Stability | Volatile |
+--------------------+-----------------+
NOTES
Source for gawk is available on http://opensolaris.org.
Free Software Foundation Nov 3 1999 IGAWK(1)