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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
I have a file with below content - Example
3
6
69
139
210
345
395
418
490
492
I would like the result as - Multiple of 70 or nearest number in the file less than the multiple of 70
69
139 (5 Replies)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi Everybody,
I'm a newbie to shell scripting, and I'd appreciate some help. I have a bunch of .txt files that have some unwanted content. I want to remove lines 1-3 and 1028-1098.
#!/bin/bash
for '*.txt' in <path to folder>
do
sed '1,3 d' "$f";
sed '1028,1098 d' "$f";
done
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi Friends,
I wrote one shell script to check the record count in two files and that will send us the notification activity if found zero record count.
What i did is I created for loop and checking the count for both of the files but what is happening is for first file has data then it's... (13 Replies)
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Dear mentors, I just need little explanation regarding for loop to give input to awk script
for file in `ls *.txt |sort -t"_" -k2n,2`; do
awk script $file
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Hello,
I am trying to create a matrix of 0's and 1's depending on whether a gene and sample name are found in the same line in a file called results.txt. An example of the results.txt file is (tab-delimited):
Sample1 Gene1 ## Gene2 ##
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
I am trying to check if two variables have value assigned to it.
i am doing it like
if ]
then
echo "Please specify either single hostname or host file for the report"
usage
exit
fi
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
I have one small requirment...
I have prepared one script. we have to pass two possitional parameters to the script. What I want to do is if the parameters are not passed then i dont want the script to start the process...
For ex:
$ ./a.sh parm1 parm2
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
hi, unix wizards,
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
I'm trying to create a script with a for loop that take strings in as the parameters. Some of the strings have spaces in them, and I can't get it to work properly. For example:
#!/bin/ksh
INFILE=snapshot.log
OUTFILE=summary.out
a="Lock waits"
b="Deadlocks detected"
for PARAM in... (6 Replies)
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I am trying to write a script which will read inputs form user and process those files, I have issue reading the input parameters in a loop. Following is the script...
I run the script as ./Script.sh 3 table1 table 2 table3
NumberOfTables=$1
let TableCount=1
while
do
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SH(1) General Commands Manual SH(1)
NAME
sh, ., break, case, cd, continue, eval, exec, exit, export, for, if, read, readonly, set, shift, trap, umask, wait, while - shell
SYNOPSIS
sh [-eiknqstvxu] [-c str] [file]
OPTIONS
-c Execute the commands in str
-e Quit on error
-i Interactive mode; ignore QUIT, TERMINATE, INTERRUPT
-k Look for name=value everywhere on command line
-n Do not execute commands
-q Change qflag from sig_ign to sig_del
-s Read commands from standard input
-t Exit after reading and executing one command
-v Echo input lines as they are read
-x Trace
-u Unset variables
EXAMPLES
sh script # Run a shell script
DESCRIPTION
Sh is the shell, which forms the user's main interface with the system. On startup, the shell reads /etc/profile and $HOME/.profile, if
they exist, and executes any commands they contain. The Minix shell has most of the features of the V7 (Bourne) shell, including redirect-
ion of input and output, pipes, magic characters, background processes, and shell scripts. A brief summary follows, but whole books have
been written on shell programming alone.
Some of the more common notations are:
date # Regular command
sort <file # Redirect stdin (standard input)
sort <file1 >file2 # Redirect stdin and stdout
cc file.c 2>error # Redirect stderr
a.out >f 2>&1 # Combine standard output and standard error
sort <file1 >>file2 #Append output to file2
sort <file1 >file2 & #Background job
(ls -l; a.out) & # Run two background commands sequentially
sort <file | wc # Two-process pipeline
sort <f | uniq | wc # Three-process pipeline
ls -l *.c # List all files ending in .c
ls -l [a-c]* # List all files beginning with a, b, or c
ls -l ? # List all one-character file names
ls ? # List the file whose name is question mark
ls '???' # List the file whose name is three question marks
v=/usr/ast # Set shell variable v
ls -l $v # Use shell variable v
PS1='Hi! ' # Change the primary prompt to Hi!
PS2='More: ' # Change the secondary prompt to More:
ls -l $HOME # List the home directory
echo $PATH # Echo the search path
echo $? # Echo exit status of previous command in decimal
echo $$ # Echo shell's pid in decimal
echo $! # Echo PID of last background process
echo $# # Echo number of parameters (shell script)
echo $2 # Echo second parameter (shell script)
echo "$2" # Echo second parameter without expanding spaces
echo $* # Echo all parameters (shell script)
echo $@ # Echo all parameters (shell script)
echo "$@" # Echo all parameters without expanding spaces
The shell uses the following variables for specific purposes:
SHELL the path of the current shell
HOME the default value for the cd(1) command
PATH the directories to be searched to find commands
IFS the internal field separators for command strings
PS1 the primary shell prompt
PS2 the secondary shell prompt
There are various forms of substitution on the shell command line:
`...` Command string between back-quotes is replaced by its output
"..." Permits variable substitution between quotes
'...' Inhibits variable substitution between quotes
$VAR Replaced by contents of variable VAR
${VAR} Delimits variable VAR from any following string
The expressions below depend on whether or not VAR has ever been set. If VAR has been set, they give:
${VAR-str} Replace expression by VAR, else by str
${VAR=str} Replace expression by VAR, else by str and set VAR to str
${VAR?str} Replace expression by VAR, else print str and exit shell
${VAR+str} Replace expression by str, else by null string
If a colon is placed after VAR, the expressions depend on whether or not VAR is currently set and non-null.
The shell has a number of built-in commands:
: return true status
. fn execute shell script fn on current path
break [n] break from a for, until or while loop; exit n levels
continue [n] continue a for, until or while loop; resume nth loop
cd [dir] change current working directory; move to $HOME
eval cmd rescan cmd, performing substitutions
eval rescan the current command line
exec cmd execute cmd without creating a new process
exec <|> with no command name, modify shell I/O
exit [n] exit a shell program, with exit value n
export [var] export var to shell's children; list exported variables
pwd print the name of the current working directory
read var read a line from stdin and assign to var
readonly [var] make var readonly; list readonly variables
set -f set shell flag (+f unsets flag)
set str set positional parameter to str
set show the current shell variables
shift reassign positional parameters (except ${0}) one left
times print accumulated user and system times for processes
trap arg sigs trap signals sigs and run arg on receipt
trap list trapped signals
umask [n] set the user file creation mask; show the current umask
wait [n] wait for process pid n; wait for all processes
The shell also contains a programming language, which has the following operators and flow control statements:
# Comment The rest of the line is ignored
= Assignment Set a shell variable
&& Logical AND Execute second command only if first succeeds
|| Logical OR Execute second command only if first fails
(...) Group Execute enclosed commands before continuing
for For loop (for ... in ... do ... done)
case Case statement ((case ... ) ... ;; ... esac)
esac Case statement end
while While loop (while ... do ... done)
do Do/For/While loop start (do ... until ...)
done For/While loop end
if Conditional statement (if ... else ... elif ... fi)
in For loop selection
then Conditional statement start
else Conditional statement alternative
elif Conditional statement end
until Do loop end
fi Conditional statement end
SEE ALSO
echo(1), expr(1), pwd(1), true(1).
SH(1)