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Hi, so thanks for the input everyone. To clarify, in my input file the 0 is just an example of the data I want to replace, this can be text or other numbers or a combination of both. I have a loop...

Sure, so here would be my text file before. Let's just say I have a file of serial numbers:

E1111111
E2222222
E3333333
0
E5555555
0
E7777777

So the 0 are mess ups in the file and I want...

Hi, I've been trying to figure this one out and found a post about this on the forum here but the solution didn't seem to work for me. Basically what I have is a file that looks something like:
...

Hi,

Been mulling this one over today and can't seem to find the exact method to solve this. So I assign a value to a variable based on a grep. Usually that variable has 1 value but today I...

Thanks for the quick response but do I need to have the [[ ]] around the condition? I'm getting a syntax error:

./Compare.sh: line 9: conditional binary operator expected
./Compare.sh: line 9:...

Hi, Sorry for the dumb question but I can't seem to figure this one out. I want to write an if condition that basically checks if my variable is in a file. So far I have the following:

if [[ grep...

Hi, for some reason I cant seem to figure this out. I have a file which looks something like this

word
word
word
word
word,word,word
word
word
word,word,word,word,word
word
word
...

Awesome! One more thing I forgot to mention, the number I want is surrounded by "". How can I get rid of those quotation marks? Thanks so much!

Hi, I have a CSV file and would like to grep out a particular row of values. The CSV file looks something like...

"email", "data", "date", "other data", "blah", "NUMBER I WANT", "more stuff", and...

cool thanks for the help =D

hmm the -ow option didnt seem to work. I tried changing the ordering of it too but it didnt return anything at all. Do I need to pipe it or anything?

Hi, I'm a little confused with the grep options and can't seem to find the correct one I need. I basically want to grep a file for a word with the pattern in it. I tried:

grep -w word file

But...

Hi,

I have a shell script and I'm trying to execute it from my php script. The command I'm using is:


shell_exec("Script.sh");


Is this correct? It seems to not do anything for me. Not...

Ahh that's what it was! Good catch! Thanks everyone for all the help =D

no luck as in it didn't do anything. no error and didn't produce the right result. I'll paste the script so maybe u can see if other things are causing issues

#!/bin/sh
name=$(grep ENGINE radar)...

thanks but still no luck. What did you mean by the red # symbol?

It's something with this syntax:

<ticket://abc/43289324> hdsbdkdsa

Hmm, seems to be giving me this problem now:

bad flag in substitute command: 'r'

I tried with and without the double quotes. I tried with single quotes around the sed and that didnt seem to do...

so i've tried the following:

sed 's/\$name/newname/g' file

and

sed 's/\$name\/newname/g' file

which doesn't error out but doesn't do anything either. I think the problem is that the...

ah ok cool thanks! But one more problem and i believe it has to do with something im substituting in. The variable $name contains something like... "<stuff>morestuff" without the quotes of course. I...

I always kind of wondered this but I have a variable that I want to use in a search and replace. Basically I want to search a file for the string in my variable and replace it with something fixed...

For whatever reason I cant seem to fix my syntax to do the following. I want to run a grep and count how many instances come up and store that number in a variable but I keep erroring out. Here's my...

not a problem, i can figure that out. thanks so much for the help! you rock!

cool, got it! One last thing and this might not even matter since it's HTML but I guess it depends on what kind of space this is but the output seemed to have added a tab right before replacing a...

This is what happened when I tried running the command:

unix$ nl file1 |
> sed 's/^[ ]*\([1-9][0-9]*\)[ ]*\([^ ].*\)/s%\\$\1%\2%g/' |
> sed -f - file2
sed: -: No such file or directory