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I have a requirement. I have an application which can take a file as inputs. Now the file can contain any number of lines. The tool has to pick up the first uncommented line and begin...

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I need to check format if input file. My input file has 4 fields. They should be seperated by a '|' or space. If not I have to throw an error. I have a script(which is not a generic one) to...

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I have a script called sam.sh which consists of a single echo statement like this

#/usr/bin/ksh
echo "Mani"

I changed the mode for the script by giving chmod a+x sam.sh.

If I want to...

Hi, Sorry for the late reply. It worked when I passed the parameters to the function. Thanks.

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It worked. But the only thing is that when I put the same code in a function it doesnt work. It says test argument expected in the line where i check for the existence of the file

v=$1
if [...

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I want to do the following validations in my script when my script gets 2 parameters as command line inputs.

My script expects 2 inputs : a -f option and a filename

If a filename is...

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How will I check whether the first line is starting with a "|" or not. That is if the input file is like this:
|MANI124 45

I shud give it as an error. Basically I shoud check if the line...

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Thanks. It worked

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I have a file called inp.txt
the contents of the file are as follows

MANI123|23|41
MANI123|96|23

I want to reove the first line of this file. How can I do it.

Thanks in advance

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The real problem is that the user may give 3 fields or 4 fields in the input file. I shoud perform a check based on that. Thats where I am stuck. Since the number of fields may vary(3 or 4). How...

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Thanks. It worked. How can I do it if my input file has 4 fields and they are seperated by "|". Will the same logic work. I tried it. It didnt work.

Thanks in advance

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This with reference to my earlier thread.

I have file called input that has 2 values. Now I have to check whether the 2 fileds are seperated by a "|" or not. I am not able to do this with the...

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I have a script called read.sh that takes a file as input. Now I want to make that script take the file as input with a -f option preceding the filename. How can I do this validation. How can I...

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With the earlier script that I had given, its not working when I introduce a fourth field and seperator between third and fourth field is a space and not a "|". Where could I be going wrong.
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I modified the code like this, when my input file has four fields.

cnt=0
while read line
do
cnt=`expr $cnt + 1`
first=`echo $line | cut -f1...

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Sorry. It was my mistake. Instead of giving field f4 I was giving only f3.

I corrected it and it worked.

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Now I want to do the same for , when I have four fields in my input file. When I tried to introduse a variable fourth and do the same thing it didnt work.

This is the script that worked for...

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I have a file called inputs. Now that file has the values like this:
1 2 3

Now In my script called 'get.sh' I do this :
exec < inputs
read a b c d

Now I know that there will not be...

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Thanks it worked.

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The script is working fine for the following inputs:

Mani|123|proff
Mani 123|proff
Mani|123 proff

But when I just give '|||' in the input file it still tells me that its 'good'. Even...

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The script works fine when there are no "|" symbols in the file. But even if one of them is present then it still says that the format is ok, which is not the exact way.
ie....
I have inputs...

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I have a script that takes the contents of another file as inputs. Its assumed that there are 3 values in the input file that are seperated by '|'. I have to check in my script, whether the...

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I have a script called check.sh. I have to pass a file as input to this script. How can I validat whether the file has read permissions or not within the script.

Thanks in advance

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I'm using HP-UX 11 machine. I am running a script, thats gonna take a long time to execute. When I press ctrl-c to come out of my script, I have to catch that signal(ctrl-c) and display...

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I have a file namely 'inputs' The values inside the file are like this and seperated by a '|'.

mani|21|CSE

How can I extract the values from this file without the '|' symbol.

Thanks in...