So far, so good. Notice, though, that every file has a "short address" (the files name) and a "long address" (the fies name and its full path).
This works similar to telephone numbers: if you give someone your number without a regional area code and country code it will work as long as the person is in the same area as you.
But once outside this area you need to give him your area code too to make it work
and to make sure the number works from whereever he is you will have to add the country code too:
The same is true for files: you can address them by their name only, but then you will only find them if you happen to be in the same directory. If you aren't you won't. To make sure you find them regardless of where you are provide a full pathname instead. In this case the files name is not
but rather
As a general rule: to make sure files are always found regardless of from where you call a script use always the long form of (so-called) "absolute path names" when you address files inside scripts.
Hi,
iam having the file as follows:
ABCDEFGH|0987654321234567
ABCDEFGH|0987654321234523
ABCDEFGH|0987654321234556
ABCDEFGH|0987654321234545
POIUYTRE|1234567890890678
POIUYTRE|1209867757352567
POIUYTRE|5463879088797131
POIUYTRE|5468980091344456
pls provide me the split command
... (14 Replies)
I want to compare some files.
say iam having 2 sets of files ,each is having some 10 files.
ie,
file1
1a.txt
1b.txt
1c.txt
...
file2
2a.txt
2b.txt
2c.txt
...
i need to read line by line of this files parralley..
ie.. i want to read file1 first line that is 1a.txt and file2... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I am looking for a PDF or an e-book which can show in details how to do Shell Scripting or Programming. Can anybody provide me with a link to such a tutorial? I have downloaded some tutorials but they show only basics and not give any in-depth study material.
I am using Red Hat Linux... (2 Replies)
# set date to your spec: this is month/day/yr/hr/min/sec:
sysdate=`date '+%m/%d/%Y-%H:%M:%S'`
# get the last line before the history file is modified
tail -1 /tmp/hosthistory.txt |while read lastdate mydevices
do
echo $lastdate
echo $mydevices
done
LIST = 'ypcat hosts|| sort... (11 Replies)
I was trying out some new series to get it print
1
1 2
1 2 3
1 2 3 4
1 2 3 4 5
and the seond one is
1
2 2
3 3 3
4 4 4 4
5 5 5 5 5
but was unable to get the result. (5 Replies)
hi,
i am trying this while loop and i only want that it should only read food as pizza....no other entry should be taken here.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
$food = " ";
while ( $food ne 'pizza' )
{
print 'enter what you had last night: ';
chomp ($food = <STDIN>);
#print $food ;
}
... (2 Replies)
Hi,
We need to compare a text file File1.txt and config file File2.txt in a way that it checks if the content of File1.txt exists between the range mentioned in File2.cfg.
The range here is the range between col1 and col2 of File2.cfg
If the content of File1.txt lies between the range of... (12 Replies)
comm(1) User Commands comm(1)NAME
comm - select or reject lines common to two files
SYNOPSIS
comm [-123] file1 file2
DESCRIPTION
The comm utility reads file1 and file2, which must be ordered in the current collating sequence, and produces three text columns as output:
lines only in file1; lines only in file2; and lines in both files.
If the input files were ordered according to the collating sequence of the current locale, the lines written will be in the collating
sequence of the original lines. If not, the results are unspecified.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-1 Suppresses the output column of lines unique to file1.
-2 Suppresses the output column of lines unique to file2.
-3 Suppresses the output column of lines duplicated in file1 and file2.
OPERANDS
The following operands are supported:
file1 A path name of the first file to be compared. If file1 is -, the standard input is used.
file2 A path name of the second file to be compared. If file2 is -, the standard input is used.
USAGE
See largefile(5) for the description of the behavior of comm when encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte ( 2**31 bytes).
EXAMPLES
Example 1: Printing a list of utilities specified by files
If file1, file2, and file3 each contain a sorted list of utilities, the command
example% comm -23 file1 file2 | comm -23 - file3
prints a list of utilities in file1 not specified by either of the other files. The entry:
example% comm -12 file1 file2 | comm -12 - file3
prints a list of utilities specified by all three files. And the entry:
example% comm -12 file2 file3 | comm -23 -file1
prints a list of utilities specified by both file2 and file3, but not specified in file1.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables that affect the execution of comm: LANG, LC_ALL, LC_COLLATE,
LC_CTYPE, LC_MESSAGES, and NLSPATH.
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0 All input files were successfully output as specified.
>0 An error occurred.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWesu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|CSI |enabled |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface Stability |Standard |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO cmp(1), diff(1), sort(1), uniq(1), attributes(5), environ(5), largefile(5), standards(5)SunOS 5.10 3 Mar 2004 comm(1)