hello..
my prob is as follows:
i have to read from a file which may have different formats depending upon the delimiter used in the data of the file.now i need that the user input the delimiter.the input delimiter is stored in a variable and is used on cut command to retrieve necessary... (3 Replies)
one of my colleagues has this question.
he has a command, C_CMD which accepts 4 variables, $1 $2 $3 $4
he wants to load up a file with multiple rows, one row per set of variables and then iteratively execute the command based on the content of the file.
example:
at the command line you'd... (5 Replies)
Hi All,
Can the cut command have double character delimiter?
If yes, how can we use it.
if my data file contains :
apple || mango || grapes
i used
cut -f1 -d"||" filename
but got an error.
Plz help....
Thanks. (1 Reply)
Hi,
I am new to shell script. This is my first post .I have written a small script which returns list of names starts with "ram" in /etc/passwd .Here is that:-
#!/bin/ksh
NAME_LIST="name_list.txt"
cat /dev/null > $NAME_LIST
evalcmd="cat /etc/passwd | grep "^ram?*" | cut -d: -f1"
eval... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I have a situation where I have to specify a different value to an awk command, I beleive i have the gist of this done, however I am not able to get this correct. Here is what I have so far
echo $id
065859555
This value occurs in a "pipe" delimited file in postition 8. Hence I would... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I've a situation where,
a=xxx.yyy.zzz.txt
EXTN=`echo $a | cut -d . -f2`
Using the above code it delimites and will return "yyy.zzz.txt" to EXTN. But i need to get only the extension "txt". so as per the above code it delimits in the first "." itself. Can anyone help how to do... (6 Replies)
I can not make it work, it prints \t rather than introduce tabs.
cut -d "," -f 4,8 Samples.csv --output-delimiter="\t" | sort > out
Since I am running this command within a shell script, I tried manually inserting tab in this command, still does not work. I am using bash shell
Suggestions... (8 Replies)
Hi all,
I have a number of strings like below:
//mnt/autocor/43°13'(33")W/
and i'm trying to get the numbers in this string, for example
431333
please help
thanks ahead (14 Replies)
Can we pass an argument to cut command as below
Suppose cut command is used in for or while loop and we need to pass the incremental counter
cut -f$i
Here $i is an argument.
Like wise it has to come
cut -f1
cut -f2
Where i=1,2,3,.... (1 Reply)
There is a text file in my project named as "mom.txt" in which i want to have contents like..................
LSCRM(Application Name):
1: This is my first application.
2: Today we did shell scripting automation for this app.
3: It was really a good fun in doing so.
4: Really good.| (Here i... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: Abhijeet Anand
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LEARN ABOUT ULTRIX
makedbm
makedbm(8yp)makedbm(8yp)Name
makedbm - make a yellow pages dbm file
Syntax
makedbm [ -i yp_input_file ] [ -o yp_output_name ] [ -d yp_domain_name ] [ -m yp_master_name ] infile outfile
makedbm [ -u dbmfilename ]
Description
The command takes the file specified by the argument infile and converts it to a pair of files in format, namely and Each line of the input
file is converted to a single record. All characters up to the first tab or space form the key, and the rest of the line is defined as the
key's associated data. If a line ends with a backslash (), the data for that record is continued onto the next line. It is left for the
clients of the yellow pages to interpret the number sign (#); does not treat it as a comment character. The infile parameter can be a
hyphen (-), in which case reads the standard input.
The command is meant to be used in generating files for the yellow pages service. The command generates a special entry with the key
yp_last_modified, which is the date of infile.
Options-i Create a special entry with the key yp_input_file.
-o Create a special entry with the key yp_output_name.
-d Create a special entry with the key yp_domain_name.
-m Create a special entry with the key yp_master_name. If no master host name is specified, yp_master_name will be set to the local
host name.
-u Undo a file. That is, print out a file one entry per line, with a single space separating keys from values.
Examples
The following example shows how a combination of commands can be used to make the yellow pages files and from the file. The percent sign
(%) signifies the system prompt.
% awk 'BEGIN { FS = ":"; OFS = ""; }
{ print $1, $0 }' /etc/passwd > ptmp
% makedbm ptmp passwd.byname
% rm ptmp
The command creates the file ptmp which is in a form usable by The command uses the ptmp file to create the yellow pages dbm files and The
command removes the ptmp file.
See Alsoyppasswd(1yp), dbm(3x), ypmake(8yp)makedbm(8yp)