Wow, that's amazing, exactly what I was after. Since my skills are soo feeble, could I trouble you for one more enhancement? In that same KEYWORDS string, I'd like to do a single character replacement as well, with a single % marching through, so it would look like this?
I did give a solid hour trying to tinker with the awk -- but I'm just not skilled enough not to shatter the loop. HAHA!
Thanks again for your efforts, its amazing to see how much I don't know!
Hi guys,
with sed when I need to make a substitution inside a line containing a specific keyword, I usually use:
sed '/keyword/ s/cat/dog/g'
This will substitute "cat" with "dog" on those lines containing "keyword". Now I want to use this inside vi, for several reason that I cannot... (2 Replies)
How...
can I read input by a user character by cahracter. And assign each character from the string to a variable?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thank you! (1 Reply)
Hi all,
Does anyone know how to code in ksh that will remove the first character in a string variable and replace that variable without the first character?
Example:
var1=ktest1 will become var1=test1
var2=rtest2 will become var2=test2
Need help please. (10 Replies)
Hallo!
Example.
#!/bin/bash
BACKUP_DIR=/home/userx/backups/evolution
echo $BACKUP_DIR
# delete the first character from the string
BACKUP_DIR=$(echo $BACKUP_DIR | cut -c 2-)
echo $BACKUP_DIR
It works. It does want I want, delete the first character from string in the... (11 Replies)
Hey Guys,
I have text such as this.
28003,ALCORN,2
28009,BENTON,2
28013,CALHOUN,2
28017,CHICKASAW,2
47017,CARROLL,2
05021,CLAY,0
The last digit after the final "," is a variable value. This is the base file. I have to do further execution on this file later and I need to update the... (7 Replies)
echo "hello123" | tr -dc '' | wc -c
using this command i can count the no of times a number from 0-9 occurs in the string "hello123"
but how do i save this result inside a variable?
if i do
x= echo "hello123" | tr -dc '' | wc -c
that does not work...plz suggest..thanks (3 Replies)
I see a millioin ways to do this with echo, but what I wan to do is assign a variable the "nth" character of an incoming parameter to a ksh script.
$1 will be "pia"
I need to assign the first character to stmttype. (10 Replies)
Hi Perl users,
I have another problem with text processing in Perl. I have a file below:
Linux Unix Linux Windows SUN
MACOS SUN SUN HP-AUX
I want the result below:
Unix Windows SUN
MACOS HP-AUX
so the duplicate string will be removed and also the keyword of the string on... (2 Replies)
Hi
I want to implement something like this:
if( keyword1 exists)
then
check if(keyword2 exists in the same line)
then replace keyword 2 with New_Keyword
else
Add New_Keyword at the end of line
end if
eg:
Check for Keyword JUNGLE and add/replace... (7 Replies)
Hello.
I have a string variable named L_TEMP to test a very simple filter.
L_TEMP="50AwL.|KWp9jk"
I want to insert a non printable character between K and W.
I have try this :
linux-g65k:~ # a='50AwL.|K'
linux-g65k:~ # b='Wp9jk'
linux-g65k:~ # L_TEMP="$a$'\x07'$b"
linux-g65k:~ # echo... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: jcdole
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cfourcc(1) User Commands cfourcc(1)NAME
cfourcc - tool for changing FourCC in Microsoft RIFF AVI files
SYNOPSIS
cfourcc [-i] <file.avi>
cfourcc -u <CODE> <file.avi>
OPTIONS -h Show summary of options.
-d CODE
Sets FOURCC codec decription string.
-f Force changing FOURCC on unsupported file
-i Display FOURCC information (default).
-u CODE
Set FOURCC codec.
None.
DESCRIPTION
Program identifies the codec used in AVI files (*.avi) and allows the user to change the FourCC description code (like fourcc-changer in
Windows). Useful for people working with Microsoft AVI file. A Linux clone of AviC fourcc changer tool.
EXAMPLES
Note that you only need to change the -u codec field most of the time and not touch the -d description:
cfourcc -u DIVX -d DIVX file.avi
ENVIRONMENT
None.
FILES
None.
SEE ALSO ffmpeg(1)mplayer(1)AUTHORS
cfourcc was written by Mohammad Hafiz bin Ismail aka "mypapit" <info@mypapit.net>.
This manual page was written by Jarno Elonen <elonen@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). Updated by Jari Aalto
<jari.aalto@cante.net>. Released under license GNU GPL v2 or (at your option) any later version. For more information about license, visit
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cfourcc 2012-04-02 cfourcc(1)