Yes that was indeed not a good approach. Also a good thing you pointed out that the shell approach only gives a proper answer if inet is present in the file. But this would still not solve that issue.
This may be more appropriate:
Last edited by Scrutinizer; 08-22-2019 at 04:39 AM..
Hi, I'm new at bash scripting -- can anyone here help me about the sed command?
I need to be able to edit and or delete a text from an outside file ie file.txt -- I'm passing a variable and not a string
I was thinking of something like
echo -n "What do you want to edit?: "
read edit
sed... (1 Reply)
Hi All,
I need to pass a variable to perl script from bash script, where in perl i am using if condition. Here is the cmd what i am using in perl
FROM_DATE="06/05/2008"
TO_DATE="07/05/2008"
"perl -ne ' print if ( $_ >="$FROM_DATE" && $_ <= "$TO_DATE" ) ' filename"
filename has... (10 Replies)
Hello,
I am trying the following:
echo __CHANGEME__ >> testfile
VAR1="&&&"
sed -i "s|__CHANGEME__|${VAR1}|" testfile
cat testfile
This results in testfile containing
__CHANGEME____CHANGEME____CHANGEME__
Whereas I want it to result in
&&&
I understand that if
VAR1="\&\&\&"
then... (3 Replies)
I want to instert Category:XXXXX into the 2. line
something like this should work, but I have somewhere the wrong sytanx. something with the linebreak goes wrong:
sed "2i\\${n}Category:$cat\n"
Sample:
Titel Blahh Blahh abllk sdhsd sjdhf
Blahh Blah Blahh
Blahh
Should look like... (2 Replies)
I know this script is crummy, but I was just messing around.. how do I get sed's insert command to allow variable expansion to show the filename?
#!/bin/bash
filename=`echo $0`
/usr/bin/sed '/#include/ {
i\
the filename is `$filename`
}' $1
exit 0 (8 Replies)
Hi!
Been working on a script and I've been having a problem. I've finally narrowed it down to this variable I'm setting:
servername=$(awk -v FS=\/ '{ print $7 } blah.txt | sed 's\/./-/g' | awk -v FS=\- '{print $1}')"
This will essentially pare down a line like this:
... (7 Replies)
Hi, wondering if it's been asked before but didn't find matches from google. Basically I have this line:
myvar=$(echo -e "a\tb")
Now somehow the '\t' from the echo output gets replaced with white space and then stored in $myvar.
It creates a problem for me later to use tab as delimiter to do... (2 Replies)
Hi,
Will following set up work in bash script? I've got errors if assigning following binary command to a variable. But on the other hand, COMMAND="ls" works. Any explanation please? How can I assign binary command to a variable COMMAND then I can just call ${COMMAND}?
COMMAND="rsync"... (3 Replies)
I am using a shell script in fedora linux. While calling to the shell I am also passing an argument (var1=0.77) like shown below
sh gossip.sh var1=0.77
in the shell following command is written (which doesn't work)
sed - i -e 's@prob=@prob="$var1";//@g' file.txt
Actually i want the... (7 Replies)
I want to run commands inside a bash script.
An example is
I want to pass the command in a string as regexp as an argument to the script, then run sed on the bash variable
sed.sh regexp
sed.sh "-i \"s/<p>//g\""
then call
sed "$regexp" $fl (3 Replies)