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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am just trying to add specific text in front of a ${variant} but can not seem to get the syntax correct.
I have tried sed -i '$a NM_004004.5' ${variant} and printf "NM_004004.5:%s\n" ${variant} with no luck.
Thank you :). (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: cmccabe
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2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Here is my task, I feel sure this can be accomplished with see/awk but can't seem to figure out how.
I have large flat file from which I need to extract every case of a pairing of characters (GG) in this case PLUS the previous 20 characters. The output should be a list (which I plan to make... (17 Replies)
Discussion started by: Twinklefingers
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am writing a BASH script to update a webserver and then restart Apache. It looks basically like this:
#!/bin/bash
rsync /path/on/local/machine/ foo.com:path/on/remote/machine/
ssh foo.com sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 reloadrsync and ssh don't prompt for a password, because I have DSA encryption... (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: fluoborate
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have text file as follows and would like to remove the last occurance of "UNION ALL" string and replace @@ with single quote (').
Input text in file is
with temp as (
( select ----------- where OPERATION = @@B@@ and OBJECTTYPE = @@P@@ and start_time desc ) UNION ALL
( select... (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: Vaddadi
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5. Programming
Hi,
I have a document with usual English text and some of the words have apostrophes (e.g. don't, can't, etc.)
I would like all these apostrophes to be doubled (e.g. don''t, can''t, etc.), but the problem is, that some of such words have double apostrophe and
by using sed -i "s/'/''/g"... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: neptun79
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Sometimes it works for me and sometimes I get this error:
syntax error on line 1, teletype
Basically I've got no idea whats going on, especially at the end of the command: bc
Any help is appreciated (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: phunkypants
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I'm not all that much of a newbie but I've not encountered this before. Happens both in Cygwin and in Mac OS X (Darwin):
cp -R /path/to/foo/.* /path/to/bar
(where directory 'bar' exists)
... seems to copy not only the contents of directory 'foo', but also other directories that are... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: ChapHarrison
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I keep trying to append some astrix to the end of a line, but it keeps overwriting at the front of the line.
These are the originals
Fred Fardbarkle:674-843-1385:20 Parak Lane, Duluth, MN 23850:4/12/23:780900
Fred Fardbarkle:674-843-1385:20 Parak Lane, Duluth, MN 23850:4/12/23:780900
... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: DrSammyD
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
This is Ram. I'm new to this forum & new to shell scripts as well. I've a requirement in which I want to extract a substring from a given string based on last occurance of a character.
for eg.
I have a string of a file name with absolute path like... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: krramkumar
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello all,
I have a situation where I have a web root directory with a few thousand users spread out into 100 subdirectories in a 00/firstname.lastname, 01/firstname.lastname, etc. hierarchy. I suddenly need to make sure that each of these user directories contains a default index.html file... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: dkaplowitz
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