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RudiC,

Absolute sweet perfection ... Much Thanks!

Never even thought of using expansion, I was way over thinking it.
I have not dissected it yet to fully understand, I will.

Took me a...

Was I not clear.

Ruby and AWK are out ... not available.
That is the reason for my second line in original post. sh/csh!
sed is available.

I am not Reading or Processing a file ...

A...

Hi all,

Using sh/csh, unfortunately shell scripts are not my strong suit.

Trying to write a script that gets called from a program for pre-processing.
The program passes individual components...

Not much of a speed thing, however.

my $terminator = $/;
undef $/;
$mult = <MULT>;
$/ = $terminator;
According 'man perlvar' this is a no no...
The proper method would be to keep it local($/)...

A couple example command line processors of different methods...

The method I prefer... I believe it's originator is cfajohnson ... Thanks!
I have formated mine vertically though.

args=
while...

How I do it, Don't know how correct it is though. Thoughts???

cmdline='/usr/sbin/rsct/bin/rmcd -a IBM.LPCommands -r'
path=${cmdline%/*} # Path
tmp=${cmdline##*/} # Filename & Arguments...

Hi all,

Thanks for the responses ...

I have accomplished this with the following methods, however I have gone a step further with a third method...

Hopefully they help the next one in need!...

You have two choices ...
$ set
Would have shown you one ...

$ echo $pwd

Then there is the cmd:
$ pwd

-Enjoy
fh : )_~

You can edit a file inplace with sed, without redirection with the '-i' switch if you have it...


sed -i~ 's/bbb/ddd/' 'file'


-Enjoy
fh : )_~

Hi all

I currently use the following in shell.

#!/bin/sh

while read LINE
do
perl -i -ne "$/ = ''; print if !m'Using archive: ${LINE}'ms;" "datafile"
done < "listfile"
NOTE the single...

Follow up for those that care!

I was unable to get sed to quit adding lines to the file so I looked other places and wound up using perl.

The following does the job just fine!

...

A search would have set you right up!

unix2dos

-Enjoy
fh : )_~

What dos???
Must be one of the newer M$lop... xp|>

That should not happen ... That is the correct method.
The .??? signifies that there must be 3 characters following a dot!

If the .0?? or...

del access.???


-Enjoy
fh : )_~

I believe you need to run it through 'dos2unix'!

-Enjoy
fh : )_~

Hi all,

First off, Thank you all for the knowledge I have gleaned from this site!

Deleting Records from a text file... sed paragraphs

The following code works nearly perfect, however each...

Try this, Thanks goto Jimbo, I have modded it slightly.


#!/bin/sh

ls -ld "${1:-"*"}" | awk 'BEGIN {
v["r1"]=400; v["w2"]=200; v["x3"]=100; v["s3"]=4100; v["S3"]=4000
v["r4"]=40 ; v["w5"]=20...

A quick search for octal permissions reveals your answer!

Display Permissions in Octal (https://www.unix.com/unix-dummies-questions-answers/100630-display-permissions-octal-format.html)

-Enjoy...

Understood ... Makes sense, Thank you!


Yup, I understood this, wanted to ensure there was no other reason...
I typically use double quotes unless I know it needs single anyways.
If I'm...

scottn, Thank you, Obliviously I don't need to say "It works"!, About basename, yup, you did miss something... the sed'ucation part!
This really is just for education with sed and RE's.

...

Hi all,

I know this has been covered a lot, I have been searching and reading for hours on the subject, however so far I have been unsuccessful at accomplishing the goal using sed.

I know this...

Honestly I am unsure about that, I assumed it was Bourne because of the use of sh!

I proudly use FBSD, currently 7.1R

I tried (not hard yet) to find the shell version info to post but was...

Thank you for your response!

Thanks for the "while true" tip!
Very understandable now that I think about it.

I want to remain in Bourne.

Anyone, Any other comments?
I am trying to learn,...

Hi All,

I have the following script and would like to add page up and down functionality to be able to stroll through the list.

Is this possible?
If so, Any pointers to examples, info, tips,...

Awesome ... Beautiful ... Cool ... etc...

Of course the first thing I did was reformat it like...

done << EOF
echo "${1}"
EOF
NOTICE the spaces to the left of...

echo "${1}"
...