Had tried your script and that works superbly. Love the way you use the trap. I think I should start adding that in all of the scripts especially for SIGKILL=9 when we have to do a kill -9.
Hi, guys. I have one question:
I need to search for a string in a file, and then extract another string from the file and assign it to a variable.
For example:
the contents of the file (group) is below:
...
ftp:x:23:
mail:x:34
...
testing:x:2001
sales:x:2002
development:x:2003
...... (6 Replies)
Hi All,
I have a file from Mainframe which has one of the lines with so many words... i tried to fold, format to 80 chararcter.. stil did not work. So i have decided to search for a string in that line Ex.FLIGHT PLAN and once if it is found i want to delete the entire line.
Please help... (2 Replies)
Hi
I want to read a file line by line and search for a particular string in each line(say for example string containing @ )and save that string into a variable.
Can someone suggest me the way to implement it.I am using K- shell
Thanks
Ishita (5 Replies)
let me start out by saying i have ZERO exp with any kind of scripting, so sorry if this is really basic stuff.....
For example, I need to have a script that will search a file and find this line in the file:
*.cat;dog;kennel;house;barn;horse;hay;coat hat
and remove the "coat" from the... (12 Replies)
Hi , I am breaking my head from past one day ...to delete lines from a file which match to the string pattern.:wall:
I am storing the search string in a variable and search if the file exists in the folder,if not delete that entry from the file.
I am having problem to delete that line from... (2 Replies)
All,
I am trying to read in a variable and search a file then delete based on that string, but i want to match exact word.
This works but it matches all, i don't want to match anthing that contains the string, just the exact string.
sed -i "/$feedname/d" file
I tried
sed... (1 Reply)
Dear All
I am having a text file which is having more than 200 lines.
EX:
001010122 12000 BIB 12000 11200 1200003
001010122 2000 AND 12000 11200 1200003
001010122 12000 KVB 12000 11200 1200003
In the above file i want to search for string KVB... (5 Replies)
Hi,
Need your help for this scripting issue I have. I am not really good at this, so seeking your help.
I have a file looking similar to this:
Hello, i am human and name=ABCD.
How are you?
Hello, i am human and name=PQRS.
I am good.
Hello, i am human and name=ABCD.
Good bye.
Hello, i... (12 Replies)
Hi Everyone,
I have a requirement in ksh where i have a set of files in a directory. I need to search each and every file if a particular string is present in the file, delete that line and replace that line with another string expression in the same file.
I am very new to unix. Kindly help... (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: Pradhikshan
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LEARN ABOUT LINUX
let
let(1) User Commands let(1)NAME
let - shell built-in function to evaluate one or more arithmetic expressions
SYNOPSIS
ksh
let arg...
DESCRIPTION
ksh
Each arg is a separate "arithmetic expression" to be evaluated.
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0 The value of the last expression is non-zero.
1 The value of the last expression is zero.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO ksh(1), set(1), typeset(1), attributes(5)SunOS 5.10 15 Apr 1994 let(1)