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1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I have a file which has first 2 junk characters(X^C) at beginning of each line in file. When i run cut -c 2- filename it removes junk characters from all lines except on first line it keeps one junk character control C(^C). Not sure why it is not removing only from first line. (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: later_troy
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
I was wondering if anyone knows a faster way to search and compare strings and dates from 2 files?
I'm currently using "for loop" but seems sluggish as i have to cycle through 10 directories with 10 files each containing thousands of lines.
Given:
-10 directories
-10 files... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: agentgrecko
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
awk "/May 23, 2012 /,0" /var/tmp/datafile
the above command pulls out information in the datafile. the information it pulls is from the date specified to the end of the file.
now, how can i make this faster if the datafile is huge? even if it wasn't huge, i feel there's a better/faster way to... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: SkySmart
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4. Emergency UNIX and Linux Support
Hi,
Can you please hint me how to achieve the below?
Input:
$./script.sh start 1 2
Internally inside the script i want to set a single variable with $2 and $3 value?
Output:
CMD=$1
ARGS=$2 $3
--VInodh (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: vino_hymi
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hey everyone
I have a file 'agenda' which contains:
Object Day Month Year
Birthday 09 02 2012
i want to extract from a script the line which contains the day the user typed.
for example if he type 09 the line is showed using... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: Goldstein
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I got a line of text which has spaces in between and it is a long stream of characters. I want to extract the text from certain position. Below is the line and I want to take out 3 characters from 86 to 88 character position. In this line space is also a character. However when using cut... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: asutoshch
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Input:
MD5(secret.txt)= fe66cbf9d929934b09cc7e8be890522e
MD5(secret2.txt)= asd123qwlkjgre5ug8je7hlt488dkr0p
I want the results to look like these, respectively:
MD5(secret.txt)= fe66cbf9 d929934b 09cc7e8b e890522e
MD5(secret2.txt)= asd123qw lkjgre5u g8je7hlt 488dkr0p
Basically, keeping... (11 Replies)
Discussion started by: teiji
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
i)wc -c/etc/passwd|awk'{print $1}'
ii)ls -al/etc/passwd|awk'{print $5}' (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: karthi_g
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all you enlightened unix people,
I've been trying to execute a perl script that contains the following line within backticks:
`grep -f patternfile.txt otherfile.txt`;It takes normally 2 minutes to execute this command from the bash shell by hand.
I noticed that when i run this command... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: silverlocket
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
If I just wanted to get andred08 from the following ldap dn
would I be best to use AWK or CUT?
uid=andred08,ou=People,o=example,dc=com
It doesn't make a difference if it's just one ldap search I am getting it from but when there's a couple of hundred people in the group that retruns all... (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: dopple
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