Hi,
Could someone has any suggestions on this? When read a line from a file, I need to check the first char in the line, it could be a space or any char. But the leading spaces are removed by read.
Thanks. (2 Replies)
I obviously haven't learned my lesson with shell and whitespace.
find /path/to/some/where/ -name "*.pdf" | awk '{print $5}'| uniq -d
results:
some Corporation
other Corporate junk
firmx
Works fine from cmdline but the whitespace turns into another FS in a for loop.
for... (7 Replies)
I'm trying to search all .odt files in a directory for a string in the text of the file.
I've found a bash script that works, except that it can't handle whitespace in the filenames.
#!/bin/bash
if ; then
echo "Usage: searchodt searchterm"
exit 1
fi
for file in $(ls *.odt); do
... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I have a for loop which iterates over a list of strings, separated by whitespace:
$ list="1 2 3"
$ for i in $list; do echo $i; done
1
2
3
I now want to introduce some strings containing whitespace themselves ... This is straightforward if I directly iterate over the list:
$ for... (4 Replies)
Hi
Following is an example line.
echo "192.22.22.22 \"33dffwef\" 200 300 dsdsd" | sed "s:\(\ *\ \):\1:"
I want it's output to be
200
However this is not the case. Can you tell me how to do it? I don't want to use AWK for this. Secondly, how can i fetch just 300? Should I use "\2"... (3 Replies)
Below is the issue I am having.
I have a few variables which have certain values in them like
var1=23
var2=46
var3=78 etc...
I want to save these values with the help of a for loop in a single variable so that I can use it later,beacuse a few lines down the script, some of these... (3 Replies)
Hi again
I have an xml file and want to remove the leading white space as it causes me issues later in my script
I see sed is possible but cant seem to get it to work
I tried
sed 's/^ *//' file.xml
output
<xn:VsDataContainer id="1U104799" modifier="update">
... (10 Replies)
Heyas
With my forum search term 'issue with leading dash' i found 2 closed threads which sadly didnt help me.
Also me was to eager to add the script, that i didnt properly test, and just now figured this issue.
So i have this code:
if ]
then while read line
do line="${line/-/'\-'}"... (7 Replies)
Heyas
I'm trying to read/display a file its content and put borders around it (tui-cat / tui-cat -t(ypwriter).
The typewriter-part is a 'bonus' but still has its own flaws, but thats for later.
So in some way, i'm trying to rewrite cat using bash and other commands.
But sadly it fails on... (2 Replies)
I am trying to do in a single line to take a list of paths separated by whitespace and then loop thru all the paths that were wrote but my regex is not working,
I have
echo {3} | sed 's/ //g' | while read EACHFILE
do
.....
But for some reason is only taking always the first path that I... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: jorgejac
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LEARN ABOUT OSF1
line
line(1) General Commands Manual line(1)NAME
line - Reads one line from standard input
SYNOPSIS
line
STANDARDS
Interfaces documented on this reference page conform to industry standards as follows:
line: XCU5.0
Refer to the standards(5) reference page for more information about industry standards and associated tags.
OPTIONS
None
DESCRIPTION
The line command copies one line, up to and including a newline, from standard input and writes it to standard output. Use this command
within a shell command file to read from your terminal. The line command always writes at least a newline character.
NOTES
The line utility has no internationalization features and is marked LEGACY in XCU Issue 5. Use the read utility instead.
EXIT STATUS
Success. End-of-File.
EXAMPLES
To read a line from the keyboard and append it to a file, enter: echo 'Enter comments for the log:' echo ': c' line >>log
This shell procedure displays the message: Enter comments for the log:
It then reads a line of text from the keyboard and adds it to the end of the file log. The echo ': c' command displays a : (colon)
prompt. See the echo command for information about the c escape sequence.
SEE ALSO
Commands: echo(1), ksh(1), read(1), Bourne shell sh(1b), POSIX shell sh(1p)
Functions: read(2)
Standards: standards(5)line(1)