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1. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
I have a requirement to remove all non-ascii characters from a fixed length file. I used the below command which is removing special characters but somehow the total record length is being truncated to one space less. If it is a multi-byte string then many characters at the end are being truncated.... (8 Replies)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi Forum.
I have the following script /home/user/EDW_ENV.sh to setup some environment variables as:
##### section 1 PM_HOME #####
export PC_DIR_BASE=/data/informatica/ming
export DIR_ORACLE=/data/sw/apps/oracle/Oracle_scripts
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3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Please explain grep -A 999999. I've seen this before, it always seems to be with six 9's as well. See an example below.
grep 'regexp' -A 999999 server.log | egrep -c 'Option=\' (6 Replies)
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4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I saw this. But I don't know why we need this?
ls mydir > foo.txt ## I know what this will do, it will take the results and write to the file called foo.txt
ls mydir > foo.txt 2>&1 ## Don't know why we need 2>&1
Thanks. (2 Replies)
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am using this line of perl code to change the file format and remove ^M at the end of each line in files:
perl -i -pe's/\r$//;' <name of file here>
Can you explain to me what this code does, and translate it into bash/awk/sed? (2 Replies)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
find . -type f -ctime +3 -exec mv {} /somedirectory/ \;
in particular "-ctime v/s -mtime" and "difference between +3 and -3" (5 Replies)
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Specifically what is the purpose of sed?
What is f?
Why is the 'cp f $phonefile' line needed when the script ‘goes live'?
Why might that two commands following sed be commented out at the present time ( i.e., during development)?
Thanks in... (2 Replies)
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all ,
please explain the following command :
perl -e 'select(undef,undef,undef,.15)'
Thanks and Regards
Navatha (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Navatha
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Explain the output of the command “sort -rfn file1 | more” (1 Reply)
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Please explain this command line ?
wc<infile<newfile
Thanx,
Saneesh Joseph. (2 Replies)
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