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1. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
Create a single bash script that does the following:
a. Print out the number of occurrences for each motif that is found in the bacterial genome and output to a file called motif_count.txt
b. Create a fasta file for each motif (so 3 in total) which contains all of the genes and their... (6 Replies)
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2. 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)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Having issues with an expect script. I've been scripting bash, python, etc... for a couple years now, but just started to try and use Expect. Trying to create a script that takes in some arguments, and then for now, just runs a pwd command(for testing, final will be command I pass).
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Daily stupid question. I want to increment the file name everytime the script is run. So for example if the filename is manager.log and I run the script, I want the next sequence to be manager.log1. So to be clear I only want it to increment when the script is executed. So
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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)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
I want to create a temp file which is named based on a search string. The search string may contain spaces or characters that aren't supposed to be used in filenames so I want to strip those out.
My thought was to use 'tr' with but the result is the opposite of what I want:
$ echo "test... (5 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)
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
I obviously haven't learned my lesson with shell and whitespace.
find /path/to/some/where/ -name "*.pdf" | awk '{print $5}'| uniq -d
results:
some Corporation
other Corporate junk
firmx
Works fine from cmdline but the whitespace turns into another FS in a for loop.
for... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: s_becker
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hmmm... Bash doesn't parse whitespace with a read.
lev@sys09:~$ read line; echo "$line"
test
test
You can imagine what this does if you're using a shell script to read a list of unknown file names containing unknown spaces.
lev@sys09:~$ read word1 word2; echo "$word1,$word2"
123 456... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: lev_lafayette
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10. 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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