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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Variable has spaces around the string, need to remove them Post 86333 by zazzybob on Thursday 13th of October 2005 08:07:00 AM
Old 10-13-2005
First - the UUoC patrol....

cat filelist.txt | grep -i "Oct 12" | grep -i rpt132 > mike1.txt

better written as

grep -i "Oct 12" filelist.txt | grep -i rpt132 > mike1.txt

and

batchid1=`cat mike1.txt | cut -nb 27-36`

better written as

batchid1=`cut -nb 27-36 mike1.txt`

Could the second problem be due to the fact that mike1.txt contains white space?

try:

batchid1=`cut -nb 27-36 mike1.txt | sed 's/ //'`

Else; post mike1.txt so we can see the input.

Cheers
ZB
 

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PESCETTI(1)						      General Commands Manual						       PESCETTI(1)

NAME

       pescetti -- Pseudo-Duplimate Generator

SYNOPSIS

       pescetti

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the pescetti command.

OPTIONS

       Here are a list of the available options and what they do. You must specify exactly one from --demo, --generate or --load.

       --help	 Prints the help text

       --demo	 Demonstration mode. Generates one hand with permutations and the tutorial for how to use them.

       --generate=N
		 Generate N random boards

       --load=boards.txt
		 Load boards+analysis from boards.txt

       --load-dds=boards.dds
		 Load boards from boards.dds in dds format

       --load-analysis=tricks.txt
		 Load analysis from tricks.txt

       --permutations=permutations.txt
		 Generate the permutations and save them to the given file

       --curtains=curtains.txt
		 Save curtain cards to file curtains.txt

       --save=boards.txt
		 Save the boards+analysis to boards.txt

       --save-dds=boards.dds
		 Save the boards to boards.dds in dds format

       --save-analysis=tricks.txt
		 Save the analysis to tricks.txt

       --format=html|txt|pdf
		 Set the output mode to the given format

       --title=title
		 Set the title for the output

       --output=hands.txt
		 Print the hands to hands.txt, rather than to standard output

       --stats	 Generate statistics about the set of boards; included in the hands output

       --analyze Run the dds analyzer on the boards and print the resulting numberof tricks (warning SLOW)

       --criteria=
		 A  list of criteria to apply to each generated hand to generate specific hand types.  The list should be space separated and each
		 item may be suffixed with a colon and a (fractional) probability value which can be used to weight the criteria.

		 E.g. --criteria="weaknt:0.8 strongnt:0.5"

		 Valid criteria are: unbalanced weaknt strongnt twont strongtwo weaktwo three twoclubs 4441  singlesuit  twosuits  partscore  game
		 slam game-invite slam-invite jumpshift jumpfit splinter bacon weird

       --probability=factor
		 Generate  hands matching the criteria with only the given probability. Factor is in the range 0 to 1. On each attempt to generate
		 a board it is rejected if it doesn't match the criteria with the given probability.  A factor of about  0.8  gives  roughly  half
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AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Matthew Johnson <debian@matthew.ath.cx>. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this docu-
       ment under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation.

       On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.

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