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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
Although I have found similar questions, I could not find advice that could help with our problem.
The issue:
We have a few thousands text files (books).
Each book has many chapters. Each chapter is identified by a cite-key. We need
to split each of those book files by... (4 Replies)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
I'm running a matlab code within a shell script. This is how I do it,
matlab -nodesktop -nosplash -nojvm -r "my_program;quit"
This works fine. My matlab code prints out a single number, say "ans = 10" for example. I want to assign this to a variable in the shell script.
I tried doing this... (18 Replies)
Discussion started by: lost.identity
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
I need to read a variable value from script.
Below is the scenario
I am reading a value from an external file say a.txt
a.txt:
Jan
Feb
Mar
I need the corresponding value of the months in in numerics such as Jan -->1,
Feb-->2 etc.
I have this mapping in another file... (1 Reply)
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4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I have a situation where I need to read a variable from another file. But the problem is that the variable in the other file is starting with $.
E.g.
file1:
$var1=out
temp_ss.sh:
. file1
echo "Print : $var1"
It works fine if the file1 is having var1=out (note that it is... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: shash
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I am doing :
while read line
do
printf "%s\n" ${line}
done <datafile.txt
but I am not getting each single line from the data file assigned to the variable line (but only tokens/fields at a time). I also tried while IFS= read -r lineI want the whole line assigned or read into the... (2 Replies)
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Im trying to set a filename to a variable and then read the file in using the variable but im getting a syntax error. any ideas?
#!/bin/bash
function scanFile()
{
while read $1
do
echo $filename
done
}
file1=report.log
scanFile() $file1 (3 Replies)
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
Here is the output of lpstat. I would like to read value of Queue which is(abxxxxb1)and status that is DOWN in first line. i dont care what is in second line. any one can help me.thanks
Queue Dev Status Job Files User PP % Blks Cp Rnk
------- ----- ---------... (5 Replies)
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I grep for a pattern in a list of files.
"grep -i -l $pattern *.datx*"
it may give me n number of files.
say for eg, it gives me 2 files.
lock_eicu_20071228_00000000.dat_20071228_05343100
lock_eicu_20080501_00000000.dat_20080501_05343900
out of these 2 files I need to get the... (7 Replies)
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
I would like to send the output of a line in a ksh script to a file, but I need to name the file using a predefined variable:
ls -l > $MYVAR.arc
But what is the correct syntax for achieving this? I can't seem to find the correct syntax for giving the file an extension.
Any... (8 Replies)
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi
I am trouble parsing through a file with spaces in the filename. I need to grab "supportIDPS/SCM/windows_install/file groups/dds.fgl" and then do a md5sum on it. I am using sh.
Any help is appreciated.
Here is an example of the input file:
7eedbc9f7902bf4c1878d9e571addf9a ... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: jekl5
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