1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

having a slight problem. any clues would help. Can't seem to get any output when I run a simple echo script. grex.cyberspace.org% chmod a+x test grex.cyberspace.org% ls -l test -rwxrwx--x 1 gordybh cohorts 20 Dec 13 20:22 test grex.cyberspace.org% cat test #!/bin/sh echo test... (2 Replies)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I used %H%M for hours and minutes within a date variable, to latch the date/time onto the end of a file, the script it was in is now under SCCS control and the %H% is a predefined parameter for SCCS, so it tags a date with a "/" character in it. Is there a way to tell SCCS to ignore anything... (0 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

I am comparing two files which are identical except for the timestamp which is incorporated within the otherwise same 372 bytes. I am using the command: cmp -s $Todays_file $Yesterdays_file -i 372 When I run the command without the -i 372 it shows the difference i.e. the timestamp.... (5 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all I keep getting a segmentation fault error while running the script below. #!/usr/bin/perl -w use CGI ':standard'; use GD::Graph::pie; use strict; use warnings; sub trim($) { my $string = shift; $string =~ s/^\s+//; $string =~ s/\s+$//; ... (4 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all, So I have a script that reads a file called FILEA.txt and in that file there are several columns. The ones that are most important are the $name $start and $stop. So currently the script takes values between the start and stop (inside) by using a program called fastamd. But what I... (4 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, a brief introduction on the soundex python module(english sound comparison): import soundex.py a = "neu yorkk" b = "new york city" print soundex.sound_similar(a, b) output: 1 Suppose I want to merge two files, called mergeleft.csv and mergeright.csv Mergeleft.csv: ... (0 Replies)

7. Linux

Hello Ya'all: I hope Zaxxon is still around. I read a posting about compiling/updating the kernel from source. I'm doing a very specific upgrade, and am wondering if there is anything different or if there's an easy way to do this: I am using kernel version 2.6.18-92, and have done some... (1 Reply)

8. Programming

hi Here is my code written to identify the particular position which is after a string (chr*). my input file looks some thing like this aaanbb:anhn:iuopl:12345 chr1 12345 asnmkol * # kjiiii.....anmkij:lpolk:lopll:abnnj chr5 123222 polko * dddfgg .... aaanbb:anhn:iuopl:aanjuj chr2 44345 asnmkol... (1 Reply)

9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello, I am writing a small one liner script to display the tables in my database. I am working with Centos 5.5 and postgresql the command is "psql -c "\dt" | awk '{print$3}'" I just want the 3rd column from the result set, but now the problem is I am getting the third column but with... (3 Replies)