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Thanks guys,
I can't make a choice amongst all these methods :D

the title is self explanatory

I assume awk and sed existence to do the job but i'm really not good in pattern space comprehension to make it so

I wanna pick the first letter of each line in a...

Ok I've been re-scripting it and now it works, I'll never know what was the trouble but who cares ? :)

thanks for your help
this forum is a piece of gold

hi,

I've typed -lt and it works. But now I've got two questions :

1) Why -ne isn't correct to be written here ?
2) What does -le stand for in this boolean test ?

Anyway big thank for your...

I really need to sleep :D

even though I changed the line, it remains the same odd infinite loop, I need to type ctrl+c to stop the execution.
And my folder comes up with the final value of the...

ok nice it works

thank you so much

I've been placing $ like you wrote it and (( )) but it's still not working

the loop is still acting crazy

Thanks jim,

problem solved, but let's assume i'm using a variable in the pattern which would be

grep -e 'file$1' filename

$1 is not interpreted and remains $1 in the pattern right ?

hello everybody,

here's my code


mkf ()
{
INDEX=0;
while [ INDEX -ne $1 ]; do
touch "file$1.f";
INDEX=$INDEX+1;
done
}

when I type
mkf 10
the loop...

Thanks dudes
I really gotta learn regular expressions :D

any website recommandations ?

Hello everybody,

How can I start to print an output when a word hits the pattern space.
for example:

file.txt :
first line
second line
third line
fourth line
...

cat file.txt >...

Hello everybody,

How can I do seek several words with grep command ?
I didn't find how to do that in the man for I'm French.
Then I tried
man bash | grep -in control flow
But flow is...

I'm using bash :cool:

Thanks for these replies guys, they are helpful

Regards

ok that was helpful thanks even though it didn't answer the main question.

Are those brackets important to be written ? or Are those brackets written just for a better human-readability ?
...

Hello,

as the title reads, in a control flow like "if" what's the function of brackets ?

if condition then ...
if [[ condition ]] then ...

Since I saw people using them I wonder whether...

Ok it works perfectly, what a pleasure to end up with what we looking for.

Thanks a lot having helped me ! :b:

Regards, Oddant

Nope sorry that doesn't seem to work or perhaps i'm doing it the wrong way.
does it not already exist a unix command ?

ok i've found the line function but this function seems to return the first...

Hello,

I'm trying to code a bash script and I was wondering how to extract a specific line from a stream.

E.g.
My file "file" contains three lines and i'd like to find a function f which...