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Whats confusing
config called config.txt file contains var1=test1 var2=test2 shell script contains . contfig.txt it this right?
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Still can't work it out
Could you explain in more detail. Cheers
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getting vars from external files
Hi I have an issue, I want to get variables from an external file. Variable file var1=test var2-test2 I want to get these vars from another shell script. Does any one know how?
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sed issue
I can't get this code to work, could I get some help...



sed -i '' "s:${shLogpath1}${cell}:${shLogpath2}${cell}:g" test.txt


Any Ideas, I think I need to separate the variables some how?
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Posted By digitalviking
You sed it! ---------- Post updated at 06:35...
You sed it!

---------- Post updated at 06:35 PM ---------- Previous update was at 06:07 PM ----------

Now this an't working!


plistFn1=test1
plistFn2=test2

sed -i ''...
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Posted By digitalviking
I'm a muppet! ---------- Post updated at...
I'm a muppet!

---------- Post updated at 05:59 PM ---------- Previous update was at 05:57 PM ----------

Ahhhhh

but what if you have a variable in there, like this


sed -i...
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Posted By digitalviking
I sed its not working!
sed -i '' 's:'<string>/Users/testuser/Desktop/test.sh</string>':'something':g' log.txt


The log file has this in

<string>/Users/testuser/Desktop/test.sh</string> and I want to change it to...
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Posted By digitalviking
What if it was the second line in the text file...
What if it was the second line in the text file is that 2?
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Posted By digitalviking
Grabbing top line of text in a file and setting it to a variable
If I have a txt file with

test.txt

somelineoftext


and I want to set that line of text to variable in a script:

so

#!/bin/bash
var=''


becomes

#!/bin/bash
var='somelineoftext'
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Posted By digitalviking
Random variables
I need to create a random String to save in a variable.


var=`??????`


So I want to replace ?????? with random 8 chars for instance:

is96789h

only letters and numbers

Is there an...
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Posted By digitalviking
It works cool!
It works cool!
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Posted By digitalviking
thanks that works great even with variable in! ...
thanks that works great even with variable in!

Cheers
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Posted By digitalviking
sed -e 's:www.test.com:www.test1.com:g' -e...
sed -e 's:www.test.com:www.test1.com:g' -e 's:test.com:New website is test1.com:g' infile


Is that right surly it should be???? Will it still work? I changed s:test.com to s:test1.com and infile...
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Posted By digitalviking
what if the the line was <html><body><a...
what if the the line was

<html><body><a href="http://www.test.com">test.com</a></body></html>

and I wanted to change it too


<html><body><a href="http://www.test1.com">New website is...
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Posted By digitalviking
Replacing a line in a file using sed
I have a file which has a list in it

pop
triangle
people
slow
fast

What I want to do is search this list and replace people with humans do the list looks like this:

pop
triangle
human...
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Posted By digitalviking
LaunchAgent file path issue
This is weirdly a linux question I suppose.

Im having a problem with this code the file path is fine if I don't use the ~ and put in the user /Users/tempuser/....

This will be installed on...
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Posted By digitalviking
I still can't get it to work the code now is ...
I still can't get it to work the code now is

printf "%s\n" "path=`find "$dir" -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type d | while read line;do echo $RANDOM'|'$line;done |sort|cut -d"|" -f2- | head -1`" >...
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Posted By digitalviking
passing data to another file on mac
#!/bin/bash

dir=/testdir

cat > testfile.sh << EOFILE
#!/bin/bash

path=`find "$dir" -maxdepth 100 -mindepth 1 -type d | while read line;do echo $RANDOM'|'$line;done |sort|cut -d"|" -f2- |...
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Posted By digitalviking
It works... haha! It would be great to get...
It works... haha!

It would be great to get something a bit simpler but if it works it works!

Cheers
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Posted By digitalviking
I like it! It seems a bit round the houses. ...
I like it! It seems a bit round the houses.

How would I put that into my command?


path=`find /testdir -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type d | ***Some sort of sort function*** | head -1`
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Posted By digitalviking
Alternate to sort --random-sort
sort --random-sort


The full command is


path=`find /testdir -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type d | ***Some sort of sort function*** | head -1`


I have a list I want to randomly sort. It works...
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Posted By digitalviking
Thanks that works
Thanks that works
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Posted By digitalviking
Directories with spaces
My code


path=`find /root/folder/ -maxdepth 100 -type d | sort --random-sort | head -1`


if this returns a directory with spaces in for instance:

/root/folder/this is a folder

is there...
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Posted By digitalviking
Worked it out its
find /root/folder/ -maxdepth 100 -type d

---------- Post updated at 04:41 PM ---------- Previous update was at 04:29 PM ----------

My code


path=`find /root/folder/ -maxdepth 100 -type d |...
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Posted By digitalviking
Error
find /root/folder/ -maxdepth 1 type -d

I get this error

find: paths must precede expression: type
Usage: find [-H] [-L] [-P] [-Olevel] [-D help|tree|search|stat|rates|opt|exec] [path...]...
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