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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
value of i = solarisbox
ssh $i "cat /etc/hosts | sed "s/$i\.local\.//" | sed "s/$i\./$i/" | sed "s/$i/$i.sol.com/" > /usr/users/chidori/edit_hosts"While running the above one liner its i am not able to make the changes and write it to the file /usr/users/chidori/edit_hosts . I know there is a... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: chidori
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3. 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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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi folks,
I've list of LDAP records in this format:
cat cmmac.export.tmp2
dn: deviceId=0a92746a54tbmd34b05758900131136a506,ou=devices,ou=customer,ou=nl,o=upc
cmmac: 00:13:11:36:a5:06
dn: deviceId=0a92746a62pbms4662299650015961cfa23,ou=devices,ou=customer,ou=nl,o=upc
cmmac:... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: tomas.polak
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5. 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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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'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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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
can somebody help, what quote i should use in below statement or what wrong of it ?
the 1st (*) is a char, the 2nd and 3rd (*) is a wildcard
if ] && ] && ]
................^ .............^
then
echo "ok"
fi
thanks in advance. (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: 3Gmobile
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Can someone explain the following? I can use find on *.pm without quotes, but find on *.pl makes on error, I need quotes for the second version. What's up with that?
$find -name *.pm
./tieProxyStatus/Status.pm
$find -name *.pl
find: paths must precede expression
Usage: find
$find... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: tphyahoo
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10. 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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