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Can anyone explain this in detail ...

echo ${PWD#${PWD%/*/*}/}

[PWD is the present working directory]


Thanks in Advance

Ok,if it is of multiple values,which value it'll take by default??

Hi

When I type echo $PATH ,the output is

/usr/java/bin:/claims/cocoon/bin:/opt/cobol400/bin:
/usr/bin:/opt/ansic/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/contrib/bin:...

Hi,
I am parsing a very big file say 10 MB. It 'll take more than an hour ..I want to know the progress say in % .Is there any way to do that???
or
(Is there any way to know which line of the...

Nice Reply!!! _spare_ribs [ i m learning from errors ]
Thanks really....

hi ,

rm -f $(filename)*

removes ,not only $filename* but all the files in the directory .Why??
Imagine I have scripted for some one and a half hour and all the files are removed. F :D...

Can you please mention those ..

Again, echo "a/b/d" | sed 's#/#\\/#g' ll work fine.... But What I need is something like this ..how can I store that value on to a variable
like abc=`echo "a/b/d" | sed 's#/#\\/#g'`

Can you explain this further because
Usually it's of the form s/old/new/g but sed 's#/#\\/#g' contains only s/.../g

Hi all,
I am using sed for converting a string of type /abc/def/gh by \/abc\/def\/gh

[trainee@LINUX ~]$ edu="/home/abc/dec"

When I echo that variable and pass it to sed ,it works fine......

I got it ...
--- $1 $password already there..
sqlplus -s -L $dbausername/$dbapwd <<EOF
create user $1 identified by $password;
grant create session to $1;
exit;
EOF

Simple Naaa...Some ...

I tried that &&;
sqlplus -s -L $dbausername/$dbapwd $1 $password <<EOF
create user &&1 identified by &&2;
grant create session to &&1;
exit;...

Hi,
I want to input unix variable to sqlplus.The following is working fine
sqlplus username/password @dummy.sql param1 param2 << EOF
create user $1 identified by $2;
EOF

But I dont...

Got it!
i=40
while [ $i -ge 0 ]
do
echo "#\c"
sleep 0.004
i=`expr $i - 1`
done

Thnx for all

Hi all,
I want to print # like that in a progress bar..
For e.g We can notice that during installation ... but,how to do that?


Thnx,
sakthi.

tput bold ll do..
but `tput rmso` ll not remove that
However `tput reset` ll clear altogether

yes.. working on modifications

By default, in our calendar every 4 years leap year ll occur. Right!

Hi,
There are already some scripts posted in this forum reg date manipulations.This one is a addition to that.Go thro this script..
I didn't do any error checking (assuming that could be done...

I got it accidentally from a script in internet.

What they use is...
tput smso //for enabling the highlighting
tput rmso //return to normal mode

Hi,
Can anyone tell me..how to highlight a particular part of ur output text in shell programming..say,if all the o/p is against black bground,i need some text to be against white bground.....

Here as told .. the function is of type
signal(int sig,<func-name>)

Here func-name(int sig){ }
Here the signal handler function, takes the signal number as argument ...
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