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Thanks folks.
My bad. i dint try it. it works :)

Thanks a lot.

Thanks.
The '&' will put the job in background. but it does not move to the next command to execute until the existing job is complete.
so, in my case, the rm command will still wait until the job...

Hi,
I am stuck into a situation where i want to execute a command in my shell script well along with a previous command in order to achieve something but i am not figuring out a way.
here is a...

I am using Red hat linux with a bash shell.
By the way. thanks i was missing that thing and you pointed it out right.
thanks again.

Hi,
I have a piece of code as follows:

i=0
while read LINE
do
var[i] = "$LINE"
i=$((i+1))
echo "${var[i]}"
done < file

I want to assign value to the array var[i].
However, when...

I am actually trying to gather the values and store them in variables.
Here each line is a value that the user will provide via the file.
so each line is something that has to be stored as a...

Hi,
I have a text file something like this:
10.10.10.1,
ldap,
cn=users,dc=example,dc=com
.....
...
and many more lines
...
...

now i want to read each individual line from the file and...

hi,
Here is excerpt from my xml file


<!-- The custom module to do the authentication for LDAP
-->

</login-module>
<login-module...

awk '/<login-module code="com.nlayers.seneca.security.LdapLogin" flag="sufficient">/{p++} /<login-module code="com.nlayers.seneca.security.LdapLogin" flag="sufficient">/ && p==1 {$0="Mulitple lines...

i=0
while [ $i -le $buf ]

Shell script reports an error "unary operator expected" pointing the above line.
$i by default is 0 and holds integer value and $buf is also holding integer value.
...

I tried but it is doing the job of replacing rather than inserting a line before the pattern.

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Looks like only awk can help me in this scenario.
This helped me. now i would like to have some text written before the pattern.
Well, please can you tell me the syntax to write the text before the...

Hi,
Here is my piece of code used with sed in shell script:
sed -i '/<falsemodule-option>/ a\<LdapLogin>' myxmlfile

The problem that i am facing with the above is that in 'myxml' file i have...

if [$connect == "n" -o $connect == "N" -o $connect == "no" -o $connect == "No" -o $connect == "NO"]
then

echo "i am in N"

else
echo "i am in Y"

fi

Please use code tags...

Thanks folks.
It helped me.
One last question in the same context.
Can i have multiple condition checks in the same IF.
example:

if [ cond1 -o cond2 -o cond3 -o cond4 ......]

I tried the...

Hi
I have to evaluate multiple conditions with an 'or'.

Here is an example:

if [ $connect == "n" || $connect == "N" ]

when i use the above i get a error message
[: missing `]'

Please...

Hi,
I have written a choice based shell script some thing like this:

if (y)
execute code
....
fi

else if(n)
terminating


the problem with the above scripting is it will work as far as...

thanks.
I used the same but That din't work.

Hi,
i want to replace sub text which is in the middle of long text.

let me be more clear with an example.

Here is the actual text in the xml file

<module-option...

thanks a lot. i will try this out.

Here is the example.
Below lines in the xml file start at line number 35 to 40.
I want to replace the 1.1.1.1 with another ip (provided by the user) and also the port number 389 with another port...

thanks a lot.
I would also want to replace the same text at line 35 to 40.
What i mean is there is already text between lines 45 to 50 and i want to replace that text.
Please cna you let me know...

Hi,
I have an xml file which will be edited by the user.
I would like to get input from user and insert that at line 40 of the xml file.
PLease can some one help me to know how to insert the text...

Hi,
I basically have 2 shell scripts.
One is a shell script will get the variable value from the user. The variable is nothing but the IP of the remote system.
Another shell script is a script...

Thanks ilikecows for a very useful solution.
For a moment i thought this would be the best solution that you provided.
However, i can see another problem.
The problem is that this script connects...