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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
Trying to change the prompt. I have the following code.
export PS1='
<${USER}@`hostname -s`>$ '
The hostname is not displayed
<abc@`hostname -s`>$ uname -a
AIX xyz 1 6 00F736154C00
<adcwl4h@`hostname -s`>$
If I use double quotes, then the hostname is printed properly but... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: bobbygsk
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello. I'm trying to write a bash script that uses GNU screen and have hit a brick wall that has cost me many hours... (I'm sure it has something to do with quoting/globbing, which is why I post it here)
I can make a script that does the following just fine:
test.sh:
#!/bin/bash
# make... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: jondecker76
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi There...
I need to serach and replace a strings in a text file.
My file has; books.amazon='Let me read' and the output needed is
books.amazon=NONFOUND
pls if anybody know this can be done in script sed or awk.. i have a list of different strings to be repced by NONFOUND.... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: Hiano
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Can someone tell me how can i remove the RPCFTP word from RPCFTPfilelist.csv file ? (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: JSKOBS
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi I want to replace single quote with two single quotes in a perl string.
If the string is <It's Simpson's book> It should become <It''s Simpson''s book> (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: DushyantG
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Unix superusers,
I am new to unix but would like to learn more about grep. I am very familiar with regular expressions as i have used them for searching text files in windows based text editors. Since I am not very familiar with Unix, I dont understand when one should use GREP with the... (2 Replies)
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Consider the following script:
#!/bin/bash
exclude='Archive PST,SystemState'
IFS=$","
rsyncExclusions=$(for exclude in ${exclude}; do echo -n -e --exclude=\"${exclude}\"\ ; done)
unset IFS
echo rsync $rsyncExclusions test
rsync -avh --delete --delete-excluded "$rsyncExclusions"... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: jelloir
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi guys, I have a sed line in double quotes which works fine, but I want it to be in single quotes
here is the sed line
sed "/abc_def/s/\'.*\'/\'\${abc_def}\'/"
can some one give the equivalent to the above script in single quotes
Thanks a ton (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: sol_nov
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
I'm not very familiar with the ssh command. When I tried to set a variable and then echo its value on a remote machine via ssh, I found a problem. For example,
$ ITSME=itsme
$ ssh xxx.xxxx.xxx.xxx "ITSME=itsyou; echo $ITSME"
itsme
$ ssh xxx.xxxx.xxx.xxx 'ITSME=itsyou; echo $ITSME'
itsyou
$... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: password636
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
I'm having trouble manipulating a string that contains single quotes (') in it. I'm writing a ksh script to parse in a few queries from a config file, such as this:
findbug \(\(Project 'in' "Deployment,HDRCI,LHS,LSS,WUCI" '&&' Status 'in' "N" '&&' New_on 'lessthan' "070107" \)\) '&&' \(Class... (9 Replies)
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