Okay so an update (sorry if this is late). I managed to get the program to run, but I'm not getting my desired output. When I get to part 2 without changing any information, and I input the name say, Celena Standard, I get these messages-
The Info.txt file appears in my directory but with nothing in it at all too.
Also for some reason my error checking at the very beginning isn't working properly. If the user inputs a 'c' or 'q' it works fine but if they say, enter '3' they get prompted again and if they enter an incorrect input again the program exits even if they didn't hit 'q' (it even exits if they hit 'c' when it should continue the program with this input). I am really confused as to why I'm running into this problem because I set up the beginning of an interactive Perl script in the past with those same lines of code and it worked just fine.
EDIT: I've fixed the issue with the beginning of my program
I need to query a http site and then parse the xml results, this works well if I use the string in IE but I require an automated solution.
I have tried using the following as well as HTTP::Request, nothing seems to work any suggestions would be appreciated, I have tried diffrnt things I found on... (7 Replies)
I'm attempting to create a Perl script that will:
Take the contents of the usernames.tmp file
(usernames.tmp is created from an awk one-liner ran against /etc/passwd)
Take one line at a time and pass it to the su command as a users name.
This should go on until there is no more name to... (10 Replies)
I have a script that I need to create tha involves moving files and renaming them(see previous post)
Are there any websites with user made shell scripts? (5 Replies)
ok, so what i want to do is make a script that will do the following:
take out from a command in the terminal
put that output into a text file already on my computer.
the only thing is that i need to put the output in the file kinda weird: i need to take it and put each character of output... (13 Replies)
I need to write a perl script to execute external programs and grab the output and return code. Each program should be killed if it has not completed within X seconds.
Imagine that the script goes something like this :
@commands = &get_commands();
foreach $cmd (@commands) {
$pid =... (4 Replies)
PFA file "color.txt".
Note : There is no newline character in the file. I have manually inserted the newline char to make it easy to understand.
I am expecting out in the form as specified in second file "out.txt"
I need a perl script to perform the task.
Thanks in advance. (2 Replies)
I have a text file for which i need a script which does some fancy search and replace.
Basically i want to loop through each line, if i find an occurance of certain string format then i want to carry on search on replace another line, once i replaced this line i will contine to search for the... (7 Replies)
Hello,
Please advise. Scoured this site, as well as google for answers. However if you do not know what to search for, it's a bit hard to find answers.
INPUT:
ACTASS=
802
BASECOS=
279
COSNCHG=
3
CUSCOS=
52
UPLDCOS=
2
DESIRED OUTPUT:
ACTASS=802
BASECOS=279 (13 Replies)
Hello,
also with the help of some great users of this forum, I have created following shell script.
MM=120
GG=5000
# get size of directory
szm=$(du -s --block-size M ./192.168.1.xxx | awk '{print int($0)}')
data=$(date --rfc-3339=seconds)
if ; then # too big delete older files
... (10 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT V7
edinplace
edinplace(1) Mail Avenger 0.8.3 edinplace(1)NAME
edinplace - edit a file in place
SYNOPSIS
edinplace [--error=code] [[--file=file] command [arg ...]]
DESCRIPTION
edinplace runs command with its input from file (or standard input by default), and then replaces the contents of file with the output of
command. To the extent possible, edinplace attempts to exit with the same status as command.
If edinplace is run on standard input (no --file option), it must inherit a file descriptor 0 that is open for both reading and writing.
When processing standard input, if edinplace does not encounter a fatal error, it rewinds its standard input to offset 0 before exiting.
Thus, a script can first run edinplace command, then run another filter command such as grep, and the resulting output will be the output
of grep on command's output.
If no command is specified, edinplace just rewinds its standard input to file offset 0. In this case, it is an error to supply the --file
option. Of course, rewinding only works when standard input is a real file (as opposed to a pipe or device).
There are two options:
--error=code (-x code)
Ordinarily, edinplace attempts to exit with the same status as command. However, if edinplace encounters some fatal error (such as
being unable to execute command), it will exit with status code. The default value is 1. The range of valid exit codes is 1-255,
inclusive.
--file=file (-f file)
Specifies that file should be edited. Otherwise, edinplace will edit its standard input (which must be opened for both reading and
writing).
--skipfrom
Skip the first line of the file if it starts "From ". If edinplace is run without a command, positions the file offset at the start of
the second line of the file. If edinplace is run with a command, then the first line of the file is neither fed to the command, nor
overwritten. This option is useful for running edinplace over mail files, which sometimes start with a "From " line specifying the
envelope sender of the message. Since "From " is not part of the message header, just a Unix convention, some programs are confused by
the presence of that line. Note that if you specify a command, then edinplace resets the file offset to 0 upon exiting, even if the
--skipfrom option was present.
EXAMPLES
The following command prepends the string "ORIGINAL: " to the beginning of each line in text file message:
edinplace -f message sed -e 's/^/ORIGINAL: /'
The following command runs the spamassassin mail filter program on a mail message stored in file message, replacing the contents of message
with spamassassin's annotated output, and exiting with code 100 if spamassassin thinks the message is spam. If edinplace encounters any
fatal errors, it will exit with code 111.
edinplace -x 111 -f message spamassassin -e 100
(spamassassin reads a mail message on standard input and outputs an annotated copy of the message including information about whether or
not the message is likely to be spam and why. The -e option to spamassassin specifies what exit status spamassassin should use if the
message appears to be spam; edinplace will use the same exit code as the program it has run.)
To run spamassassin on incoming mail before accepting the mail from the remote client, place the following line in an appropriate Mail
Avenger rcpt file as the last command executed:
bodytest edinplace -x 111 spamassassin -e 100
SEE ALSO avenger(1)
The Mail Avenger home page: <http://www.mailavenger.org/>.
BUGS
edinplace does not make a copy of the file being edited, but rather overwrites the file as it is being processed. At any point where
command has produced more output than it has consumed input from the file, edinplace buffers the difference in memory. Thus, a command
that outputs large amounts of data before reading the input file can run edinplace out of memory. (A program that outputs data as it reads
even a very large file should be fine, however.)
If command crashes or malfunctions for any reason, you will likely lose the input file, since edinplace will view this as a program that
simply outputs the empty file.
AUTHOR
David Mazieres
Mail Avenger 0.8.3 2012-04-05 edinplace(1)