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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am trying to do in a single line to take a list of paths separated by whitespace and then loop thru all the paths that were wrote but my regex is not working,
I have
echo {3} | sed 's/ //g' | while read EACHFILE
do
.....
But for some reason is only taking always the first path that I... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: jorgejac
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi I am running this shell script .But some how the flag value is getting reset to 0 .could you please help .I'm pasting the output of the script also for your reference.
#!/usr/bin/sh
# Shell script to monitor or watch the disk space
# It will send an email to $ADMIN, if the (free... (5 Replies)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Below is the issue I am having.
I have a few variables which have certain values in them like
var1=23
var2=46
var3=78 etc...
I want to save these values with the help of a for loop in a single variable so that I can use it later,beacuse a few lines down the script, some of these... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: Elizabeth H
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4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi guys,
I'm trying to unzip a file and rename it to another while preserving the original timestamp:
$ cat file.dat.gz | gzip -d > newfile.dat
My goal is to assign the file.dat.gz timestamp to newfile.dat.
I cannot use gunzip, due to various checks done with wget. Basically, I have to... (1 Reply)
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi
Following is an example line.
echo "192.22.22.22 \"33dffwef\" 200 300 dsdsd" | sed "s:\(\ *\ \):\1:"
I want it's output to be
200
However this is not the case. Can you tell me how to do it? I don't want to use AWK for this. Secondly, how can i fetch just 300? Should I use "\2"... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: shahanali
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6. Debian
I'm trying to get a number of old disks on HP-UX 10.2 copied over to a new Debian machine which has a NAS on it.
The HP does not have rsync, but does have scp. Scp unfortunately does not always preserve permissions, and does not save links which were on the disk.
Apparently rsync has a flag... (3 Replies)
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have a for loop which iterates over a list of strings, separated by whitespace:
$ list="1 2 3"
$ for i in $list; do echo $i; done
1
2
3
I now want to introduce some strings containing whitespace themselves ... This is straightforward if I directly iterate over the list:
$ for... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: kkkoehne
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
I'm trying to search all .odt files in a directory for a string in the text of the file.
I've found a bash script that works, except that it can't handle whitespace in the filenames.
#!/bin/bash
if ; then
echo "Usage: searchodt searchterm"
exit 1
fi
for file in $(ls *.odt); do
... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: triplemaya
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
I've been trying to get this to work for ages to no avail. I've searched this site and googled but cannot find a satisfactory answer.
I've got a while loop, like this
while read line
do
echo "$line"
done < file_name
Now, my problem is that most of the lines in the file... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: zazzybob
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10. Filesystems, Disks and Memory
I'm trying to make a backup of a directory tree on Solaris 8. I'm doing this with my own ID, not root. The problem I am running into is when I extract the archive, all files are owned by me and the group is my default group. The man page lists this as the default behavior when executed by a... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: bergerj3
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