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So I have a shell script that outputs some variables, call them $a and $b. I know in shell scripting if I wanted to use the variables in another shell script I'd do

sh code.sh "$a" "$b"
...

Wow, you guys are the best. I couldn't have asked for a better explanation. This is going to make so much of my work cleaner and easier. Thank you.

So this is something I've been wondering how to do for a while. Suppose I have two shell scripts a.sh and b.sh

script a does some function and outputs to a varable $x . I would then like to take...

Of course, I'm dumb. Thanks.

So I'm iterating through a series of strings and I want to pick out a character in a certain position
so if I have the string

abcde
asigned to the variable $B.
Let $i=2, then I'd like it to...

So I'm writing a script to generate pairwise scores for how similar two strings are, and while I've been able to get it to work on a single script, I've been unable to iterate it.

So suppose I...

Thanks, you guys are the best.

So I have a file in the form


>
akdfvcnciejcndmdjfk
>
kdjkkkifjeeeeelfjfuf
>
fjfhchdejhfhfhfhfhfhf
>
skdkdhfhvnvncnccm
and I would like it to come out in the form


>1...

So I have a file in the following format


>*42
abssdfalsdfkjfuf
asdhfskdkdklllllllffl
eiffejcif
>2
dfhucujf
dhfjdkfhskskkkkk
eifjvujf
ddftttyy
yyy
>~
ojcufk
kcdheycjc
djcyfjf
and I...

Thanks again, you guys are amazing.

And I tried Guru's code again, and it worked, I don't know why I was seeing empty text files. It also ran significantly faster. Sorry about that, Thanks Guru!!

Yoda's code works, Thanks!!

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What if, instead of wanting to output the entire line, I wanted to output...

I'm using a UNIX terminal. The code doesn't do what is requested.

This just creates a bunch of empty text files. I'd like those text files to include the information from the original file as indicated in the original post. Thanks.

So I have a space delimited file that I'd like to split into multiple files based on multiple column values.
This is what my data looks like

1bc9A02 1 10 1000...