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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am trying to write a BASH script that will prompt a user to enter a number of days, then calculate the date.
My problem is the date command uses single or double quotes. For Example..
date -d "7 days"
Here is an example of some same code I am trying to work through.
echo "when do you... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: javajockey
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have got a file comp_data containing the below data :
38232836|9302392|49
39203827|8203203,3933203|52
72832788|567,3245,2434324|100
This file can have many rows like shown above. I want the values separated by "," in second column(taking "|" as delimiter) to be in quotes. These... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: msabhi
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
My first shell script is one that prints the five largest directories in a given directory. My current effort is as follows, it gives me the output I'd like, but I have to quote a globbed pathname, which seems wrong:
#!/bin/sh
du -hs $1 | sort -rn | head -n 5
And I must invoke... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: aardymir
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have this data how do i add ' ' to them like '-AAL00L' , '-BBE4577' , 'ABC'
-AAL00L
-BBE4577
ABC (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: dinjo_jo
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
I think this has to do with the quoting, I just feel I've been looking at it too long. Thanks ~T
prompt> cat my.awk
BEGIN{"date +%d%b%Y.%H%M%S" | getline sDate}
{
if (substr($0,151,1) ~ /6/ )
print >> sDate".NEW_ORDER.dat"
# print >> sDate # note this works to output the contents to sDate,... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: tcstuff
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
hi guys, i have a question related to quoting but i am not sure how to formulate it...
lets say we want to simulate the following shell actions
cd ~/project-dir
ctags /home/work/folder1/*.sh /home/work/folder2/*.sh /home/work/folder3/*.sh
so i make the following script
buidtags.sh
... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: aegis
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have an extraordinary problem with a csh script.....(feel free to berate the use of this but I'm modifying an existing bunch of them)
Anyway, I have a master csh script which in turn calls a second csh script. This second csh script is below. Within this second script are two compiled C++... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: pollsizer
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
I'm trying to take the command `date` giving me:
Fri Feb 22 09:23:52 EST 2008
and using some command take out the rest of the string leaving me with
"Fri Feb 22"
any help appreciated hopefully thanks in advance (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: cleansing_flame
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi All
In a script, I want a user to enter 4 characters, these can be a mix of letters (uppercase and lowercase) and numbers.
In this example $var represents what the user has entered.
eg $var can be A9xZ, 3DDL, bbHp .........etc
I need to check that the user has only entered characters... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Bab00shka
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