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Can you a give a permutation for one that can be put in a test command?

I was hoping to manipulate them so they both are identical.

E.g. sort characters in order

string1=dorw
string2=dorw...

sorry I meant identical. This is for the purposes of a test. The strings are already very similar. They only differ in the way of content by order. I want to run a command(s) on them so that they...

Hi, I have searched this long and hard and don't seem to see another post on this issue.
I have two strings each with the same characters but in a different order.

String1=”word”
String2=”dwor”...

Hi I have resolved the issue.

C.J

Hi I need some major help with eval

I have a statement using eval:

read input
eval variable$input=”something”

Now I want to use the “variable$input” in some commands but I don't know how to...

Ah I wasn't sure what you meant by "parameters 2-d" but your example illustrated it perfectly :b:. My hats off to you.. that one is definitely going in my private notes :cool:. Thanks a lot

CJ

Hi guys thanks for the help.. I think I have sorted it now using a pattern matching condition which looks for " " (spaces) and if any are present from the user input, an error is returned and the...

Thanks kpearson, I think I see the problem. The thing is as I am in effect opening a file from read variable so that I can work my program on it, I can't modify variable because my program won't be...

Hello sorry for the confusion. My program script basically takes in a file and performs actions on it. The main function of the program takes in the filename and a few other variables. The program...

oops good spot there.. the if [ $# - gt 1 ] error is now gone but it still doesn't work.

When I enter "one two" in the command line the condition does not get caught by if [ $# -gt 1 ] and I get...

Hi guys still no joy on this issue. It appears that anything with an integer test condition does not work. E.g.

if [ $# - gt 1 ]
then echo "Single filename argument expected"
exit 1...

Thanks for the help. I have tried what fpmurphy has written (excluding the regular file test) but every time I enter a valid filename of a file that exists, I keep getting the "Exiting. No filename...

Thanks for the help guys.. after viewing the man "test", I have come up with this:

if test -z $file -o ! -a $file

the -z bit is for when the user simply hits return and doesn't enter anything...

Hi have set a command line argument where the user enters the filename.

I have set a condition that if the command line is null (user just enters return), the script will exit (with an error...

Hi Perderabo, I can't use Awk or Sed (thats for later on in my course). I have found a solution using nl but I want do take the long route on this one and use the shell programming techniques I have...

Hi I have a file which contains data (list of data) and I want to put a number with bracket 1) 2) 3) etc at the beginning of every successive line

I can do it with SED and I can also do it using...