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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
As part of a bash the below line strips off a numerical prefix from directory 1 to search for in directory 2.
for file in /home/cmccabe/Desktop/comparison/missing/*.txt
do
file1=${file##*/} # Strip off directory
getprefix=${file1%%_*.txt}
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2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi All, Hoping someone can help....
I am trying to work out how I can ammend a log file to remove variable strings in order to remove confidential information which I cant pass on.
As an example I have used phone numbers. A large log file contains multiple lines containing something like the... (6 Replies)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi, I have a file like this:
>Contig1
TTTTCATCAGCAATAGGTGCCTTCAACAAGTTTGAGAATTTTTTACACATGACTACAGGG
CACGTGCACAATGTTTTGAGCACTGCCAATGTCGTCTTTTCTTCCCTGCTGATTCTATTT
AGCTAGATTCACTTTGTTTCCAAAAAACGACAACAAATTCCAAGGTGTACCAAGGTGTAT
>Contig2
CCCGTAGTAAAGATCAAAACTATCCCCTGCTGTATTCTCAACCAAATCCAACAAACTCTC... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: the_simpsons
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I'm making a script that automaticaly set file size and path in xml file.
I tried with :
sed -i 's/BOOTPATH/TEST/g' file.xml
it works fine
but if I use a viriable :
sed -i 's/BOOTPATH/$bootpathf/g' file.xml
with this one, no change are made.
I don't understand why. If a make a ... (13 Replies)
Discussion started by: Toug
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All ,
I am having confusion in a shell script. Please guide me.
I need to get multiple files (number of files vary time to time, file names are separated by '|') using FTP get from the remote server.
Actually, i call the FTP function in a loop. At the last step, i need to move all the get... (3 Replies)
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hey all,
So I know you can easily find and replace words and strings in text files, but is there an easy way to find and replace just a sub-portion of text in the file name. For example, in a directory I have tons of file names that start with F00001-0708, and I want to change all the files to... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: hertingm
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I'm trying to replace text in a file with text from a variable
I have the following in my script, but its not working:
#!/bin/ksh
echo "Enter the path to load scripts"
read x
echo "updating the templates"
sed "s/CHANGE_ME_TO_LOAD_PATH/"$x"/g" LoadFiles.sh > LoadFiles2.sh
I thought... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: orahi001
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have searched the forum on how to mass replace the file names. We are doing the migration and I am trying to accomplish a task where I have to replace all UNIX scripts in a particular directory that start with bdw to fdm...
For example: bdw0110137.sh should be fdm0110137.sh
Keep the... (4 Replies)
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Is there a way that I can make the following work with using variables?
perl -pi -e 's#blah#hrm#ig' replacetext
but like this
var=blah
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I am trying to process error files in selected directories. I can count the files that are there and export the contents to a file for either emailing or printing. The next step is to move the files to a processed directory with the name changed to .fixed as the last extension.
for file in... (2 Replies)
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