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Thanks very much Yoda ! Did the trick :)

Hey Guys and Gals,

I am having trouble with what I thought shouldn't be hard..

In a script I am working on there is a need to enter a MAC address.

MAC addresses are formatted ; ...

@MadeInGermany

Works great as well, thanks.

I am always blown away by how easy you guys make this all look..

Thanks for the replies, my query solved :D

Hey Yoda,

That looks like it will do the trick ! Great, many thanks.

Now to dissect it and figure out what does what ;)

Hey RudiC,

Well, one way or the other, what I am looking for is some guidance in the correct way one could use the usual linux commands (grep / awk etc) to accomplish the listing as per my...

Hey Guys & Gals,

I am stuck with the following ;

I have 2 text files, each containing 2 columns.

My goal is to have a column from the 2nd file placed inbetween the columns in the first...

Thanks !

Using

printf "%2---%s\n" "$i" "test"



for i in {1..15} ; do printf "%2d---> %s\n" "$i" "test" ; done
1---> test
2---> test
3---> test
4---> test
5---> test
6--->...

Hey there,

Thanks for the response, what I was hoping to achieve was to avoid a larger
indentation when the counter reaches double values.

For instance, when just using \t it is printed as I...

Hey Guys & Gals !

My script is creating a numbered list and I would like to have the numers and
results spaced apart by a tab.

Now to make sure it is clear which number corresonds with...

That looks like it does it !

Thanks a lot for the help and now I have a better idea on
how such things are accomplished.

Thanks again, have always gotten awesome help here :)

Hey guys and gals,

Working on a script to limit the reoccurrance of characters in a line.

sed "/\(.\).*\1/d" -i file.txt
sed "/\(.\).*\1.*\1/d" -i file.txt
sed "/\(.\).*\1.*\1.*1/d" -i...

Hey Guys & Gals,

I am trying to figure out how one would go about printing all
possible variations of letter cases in a given word.

So if for instance given the input "test123"
output...

Both the above options seem to work great ! :D

Thanks Shell_Life & vgersh99, your expertise greatly appreciated !

I have now ordered a book on sed / awk ... its about time I get better at...

Hey guys & gals,

I am hoping for some advice on a sed or awk command that will
allow to only print lines from a file that contain 3 numeric values.

From previous searches here I saw that...

Well it is great and works well, thanks again for your time and expertise :D

Much appreciated !

Heya radoulov, many thanks for your prompt response.

Tried it out and works great, thanks for the great answer !

Have to admit a lot of what is written there is waaaay out of my comfort zone,...

Evening all !

I would like to ask your expertise on how to accomplish the following ;

I have 2 lists, and would like each line from list2 to be appended to each line in list1, resulting in...

Thanks ygemici,

Your help has been awesome !

My query has been answered ;) I have a few others, however will first play around with the
new-found knowledge and if necessary revert after...

Thats great guys, thanks a lot ! Just another quick query, could I ask you to give quick explanation on what the;
\1\{2,\}
is enabling so I can work on it and if necessary change to...

Thanks alot for your great response ! You guys here rock ;)

Thanks for the quick response Guru ! Looks to be working great :) Could you also perhaps advise what would an option if there were special characters in the list as well ? Is that possible with sed...

Morning Guys & Gals,


I am trying to figure out a way to remove lines from a file that have more than
2 identical characters in sequence..


So if for instance the list would look like ;
...

Ah, that does makes perfect sense.. my mind is obviously not functioning right just yet :)

Will play some more, thanks for your prompt response rdcwayx !

Hey guys/gals,

Am having trouble getting an 'if statement' to play nice..


I am playing with a script and need 'if' to check whether "y" or "Y" has been
entered and if not to exit.
In...

Thanks for the response !

It certainly makes the results go haywire....