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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi
I have a file called text.txt contains
x
y
z
when i run a command i will get output like below
x 20
z 30
i want to insert x, z value in text.txt file and should be like this
x 20
y 0
z 30
can anyone help me please? (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: siva kumar
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
A friend contacted me recently with an interesting question. We got something worked out, but I'm curious what answers you all can come up with.
Given a shell script (in bash) that processes a bunch of data and appends it to a file, how would you append the date, time, and a filename to the... (6 Replies)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have searched the forms and I can not find info on appending each line of one file to the same line of another file. I know that I can cat one file to another or append the 2nd file to the end of the 1st but not quite sure how to append one line of data to another. For example
File 1 has ... (2 Replies)
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
I know this has been asked before but I just can't parse the syntax as explained. I have a set of files that has user information spread out over two lines that I wish to merge into one:
User1NameLast User1NameFirst User1Address
E-Mail:User1email
User2NameLast User2NameFirst User2Address... (11 Replies)
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
I have to append every alternate line after its previous line. For example if my file has following contents
line 1: unix is an OS
line 2: it is open source
line 3: it supports shell programming
line 4: we can write shell scripts
Required output should be
line1: unix is an OS it is... (4 Replies)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I would like to know if it's possible to append data into a variable, rather than into a file. Although I can write information into a temporary file in /tmp, I'd rather if possible write into a variable, as I don't like the idea that should my script fail, I'll be polluting the server with... (5 Replies)
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi.
I wrote a very simple script and it doesn't work :(
It is supposed to go to a certain directory, execute some command and append the output to the file "expo.dat"
what it does is that it writes to the file only one entery. I dont know if Im using the write synthax for "append". Here is... (3 Replies)
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8. Programming
Hi ...
I am having a string in the buffer .. It is binary data it may contain space . When i try to append a space in using strcpy it is taking the inbetween \n as the end and appending space ..
How to append space in the binary data in C ?? please let me know
Thanks in advance,
Arun. (2 Replies)
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
Am trying to write a shell script which will append a header and a footer to an existing file. Header will contain details like the current date while the footer will contain the no: of records listed in the file.
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I need to know how to record the hostname, date/time and all of the process and send it all to one file. I know that the commands I need are hostname, date and ps but I don't know how to do them all and send them all to the same file. Please help! (1 Reply)
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