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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have a file called abc.txt with the following dates
2016-01-27
2016-01-28
2016-01-29
2016-01-30
2016-01-31
2016-02-01
2016-02-02
2016-02-03
I would like to print all lines below if 2016-01-31 is found, excluding that date.
I use this command --> sed '1,/2016-01-31/d' abc.txt
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello
For this future package for community, i'd like to know your preference on this presented 'issue'.
Writing some commands which will display some strings, using another command supporting 3 strings to be supplied, i wonder how the 'default output' should look like.
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3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I'm trying to figure out a way to encapsulate a tab character, or four or five space characters into a string variable to be used in my script. I'm using the bash shell.
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
I'll be reading user name and password from the person while running a shell
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I presently do it displaying it on the screen as
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello everyone,
how can I send output to the screen from a running script or tcl, in such a way that if a loop is executing I will see the rolling counter on my screen as the records are processed in the loop. I do not want the screen to scroll, though. In other words can a var's value be painted... (2 Replies)
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I have a variable that is outputting a lot of space.
here has been 45 lines returned ...
how can I remove the spaces between the "been and the 45"
CODE:
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if ; then
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