That is the purpose of the IFS. You can directly process the file seperated by '^' so and not have to bother with having to use things like cut and awk.
Hi,
I have a while read loop that reads files in a directory and process. The files have spaces in between, so I have the IFS=\n to to read the whole line as one file name.
The read works fine but I have a problem with another variable that I set in the beginning of the script. The variable... (1 Reply)
Hi!
I am working in korn shell. I want to reset the dimiliter for the set command to "|" but instead of a command prompt return I am getting something as below
After issuing the command I am getting this....as if the shell is expecting something else. Can anybody suggest what's the problem.
... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have modified the IFS variable in the K shell program and with in the program i want to reset to the default one. How do i reset the same.
e.g
in the begining of the program IFS is default
in the middle i changed it to
IFS="|"
and again i want the default value for the IFS.
... (2 Replies)
Hi,
while ; do
echo "Please enter "
read enter
yyyy=${enter:0:4}
mm=${enter:5:2}
dd=${enter:8:2}
result=`validateDate $yyyy $mm $dd`
When does the loop keeping repeating till?? till 1 is equal to 1?
what does this mean "${enter:0:4}" .The 0 and 4 part??
... (3 Replies)
I am using bash and resetting IFS as below when reading the command line arguments. I do this so I can call my script as in Ex1.
Ex1: ./synt2d-ray3dmod.bash --xsrc=12/20/30
This allows me to split both sides so that when I do "shift"
I can get 12/20/30
What I do not understand is... (21 Replies)
Hello masters of scripting,
I've been working to develop some basic monitoring scripts. I have solved one problem, but want to know how to solve the other.
I have a script that runs locally to create an output file with the Linux system kernel paramters, preceeded by the system name:
... (2 Replies)
Ok, so I'm playing around with delimters and reading files. and I came across this behaviour that I thought was a bit odd, regarding how the set command takes values... If I run this: IFS=$'-' #Assigns the - as the default delimiter for bash set I-love-my-gf-a-lot #uses set to put a bunch of... (1 Reply)
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dh_movefiles
DH_MOVEFILES(1) Debhelper DH_MOVEFILES(1)NAME
dh_movefiles - move files out of debian/tmp into subpackages
SYNOPSIS
dh_movefiles [debhelperoptions] [--sourcedir=dir] [-Xitem] file...]
DESCRIPTION
dh_movefiles is a debhelper program that is responsible for moving files out of debian/tmp or some other directory and into other package
build directories. This may be useful if your package has a Makefile that installs everything into debian/tmp, and you need to break that
up into subpackages.
Note: dh_install is a much better program, and you are recommended to use it instead of dh_movefiles.
FILES
debian/package.files
Lists the files to be moved into a package, separated by whitespace. The filenames listed should be relative to debian/tmp/. You can
also list directory names, and the whole directory will be moved.
OPTIONS --sourcedir=dir
Instead of moving files out of debian/tmp (the default), this option makes it move files out of some other directory. Since the entire
contents of the sourcedir is moved, specifying something like --sourcedir=/ is very unsafe, so to prevent mistakes, the sourcedir must
be a relative filename; it cannot begin with a `/'.
-Xitem, --exclude=item
Exclude files that contain item anywhere in their filename from being installed.
file ...
Lists files to move. The filenames listed should be relative to debian/tmp/. You can also list directory names, and the whole directory
will be moved. It is an error to list files here unless you use -p, -i, or -a to tell dh_movefiles which subpackage to put them in.
NOTES
Note that files are always moved out of debian/tmp by default (even if you have instructed debhelper to use a compatibility level higher
than one, which does not otherwise use debian/tmp for anything at all). The idea behind this is that the package that is being built can be
told to install into debian/tmp, and then files can be moved by dh_movefiles from that directory. Any files or directories that remain are
ignored, and get deleted by dh_clean later.
SEE ALSO debhelper(7)
This program is a part of debhelper.
AUTHOR
Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
8.9.0ubuntu2.1 2012-06-12 DH_MOVEFILES(1)