I pointed out earlier that // means "global". That makes sense because an empty search would not make sense.
Now RudiC opened my eyes for the /# and /% modifiers. Again, makes sense!
I have a variable which consists of a string like this:
001 aaabc 44 a bbb12
How do I extract each substring, delimited by the spaces, into new variables - one for each substring?
eg var1 will be 001, var2 will be aaabc, var3 will be 44, var4 will be a, etc?
I've come up with this:... (2 Replies)
Hello,
I am an intermediate scripter. I can usually find and adapt what I need by searching through previous postings, but I'm stumped.
I have a string with the format "{Name1 Release1 Type1 Parent1} {Name2 Release2 Type2 Parent2}". It is being passed as an argument into a ksh script. I need to... (5 Replies)
I have a UNIX shell where:
LEVEL=dev
SITE=here
and WHEREIAM=/tmp/$SITE/location/$LEVEL
I want to echo $WHEREIAM in such a way that I get it back with all the environment variables resolved (/tmp/here/location/dev).
This command will be used in a shell script. (5 Replies)
Hi all,
I'm trying to extract the name of a script that is being run with a full path. i.e.
if the script name is /some/where/path/script_name.ksh
I'd like to extract only: script_name
i know that it is possible to do so in two phases:
echo "${0##*/}" will give me script_name.ksh
and... (4 Replies)
In a bash script I've set a variable that is the directory name of where an executable lives.
the_dir=`dirname $which myscript`
which equates to something like "/path/to/dir/bin"
I need to cut that down to remove the "bin" so I now have "/path/to/dir/".
This sounds easy but as a... (2 Replies)
Hello,
I have a paramter $param consisting just of two literals and want to split it into two parameters, so I can combine it to a new parameter <char1><string><char2>, but the following code didn't work:
tmp_PARAM_1=cut -c1 $PARAM
tmp_PARAM_2=cut -c2 $PARAM... (2 Replies)
Hi All,
I am facing a problem and I am not able to solve it.
I have already searched google, but nothing (maybe I am not using the correct key words).
As a database query result, I have a file like below:
fmv:/home/fmv/tmp>cat TestBackRef.txt
/^TEST\(\{4\}\)X\{12\}Y\.txt$/\0#\1/#Test... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I need to convert string "(joe.smith" into "joe_smith"
i.e. I need to remove the leading opening brace '(' and replace the dot '.' with an under score '_'
can anyone suggest a one liner ksh script or unix command for this please (3 Replies)
Hi all,
I have used a bash script which ultimately converts a string into date using date --date option:
DATE=$DATE" "$TIME" "`date +%Y` //concatenating 2 strings
TMRW_DATE=`date --date="$DATE" +"%s"` //applying date command on string and getting the unixtime
Please use code tags... (7 Replies)
Hi, I have a variable with grep output like this:
WORDS=$(grep -r -c -i -E "palindrom" /"$DIRECTORY"/)
so "echo "$WORDS"" could be:
//directory/file1.txt:0
//directory/file2.txt:0
//directory/file3.txt:3
//directory/file4.txt:1
//directory/file5.txt:0
I need to "sed" my variable... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: Hornys
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LEARN ABOUT MINIX
shift
shift(1) User Commands shift(1)NAME
shift - shell built-in function to traverse either a shell's argument list or a list of field-separated words
SYNOPSIS
sh
shift [n]
csh
shift [variable]
ksh
* shift [n]
DESCRIPTION
sh
The positional parameters from $n+1 ... are renamed $1 ... . If n is not given, it is assumed to be 1.
csh
The components of argv, or variable, if supplied, are shifted to the left, discarding the first component. It is an error for the variable
not to be set or to have a null value.
ksh
The positional parameters from $n+1 $n+1 ... are renamed $1 ..., default n is 1. The parameter n can be any arithmetic expression that
evaluates to a non-negative number less than or equal to $#.
On this man page, ksh(1) commands that are preceded by one or two * (asterisks) are treated specially in the following ways:
1. Variable assignment lists preceding the command remain in effect when the command completes.
2. I/O redirections are processed after variable assignments.
3. Errors cause a script that contains them to abort.
4. Words, following a command preceded by ** that are in the format of a variable assignment, are expanded with the same rules as a vari-
able assignment. This means that tilde substitution is performed after the = sign and word splitting and file name generation are not
performed.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO csh(1), ksh(1), sh(1), attributes(5)SunOS 5.10 15 Apr 1994 shift(1)