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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
I'd like to put paragraph breaks \n\n randomly between 5 - 10 occurrences of the dot character (.), for an entire text file. How to do that?
In other words, anywhere between every 5 -10 sentences, a new paragraph will generate. There are no other uses of the (.) except for sentence breaks in... (11 Replies)
Discussion started by: p1ne
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Need to use dd to generate a large file from a sample file of random data. This is because I don't have /dev/urandom.
I create a named pipe then:
dd if=mynamed.fifo do=myfile.fifo bs=1024 count=1024
but when I cat a file to the fifo that's 1024 random bytes:
cat randomfile.txt >... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: Devyn
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hey guys,
I need to first generate some random characters, which I am already doing perfectly as follows:
randomize=`cat /dev/urandom | tr -dc "a-z0-9" | fold -w 6 | head -n 1`
This is where I am stuck...I need to sed replace some static values with those random characters, but I need each... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: holyearth
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4. Ubuntu
Hi
I am new to expect. Please if any one can help on my issue its really appreciable. here is my issue:
I want expect script for random passwords and random commands generation.
please can anyone help me?
Many Thanks in advance (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: vanid
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
I need to run a number of scripts which have a certain phrase on them so I have identified these by;
grep -l 100 *script | sort -u
Normally I could just run something along the lines of;
for i in `grep -l 100 *script | sort -u`; do ./${i}; done
However before I run each of... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: JayC89
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I need a sed line that will take STDM111 and change it to STDM161
the STDM will always be constant but the 3 numbers after will be random, I just need it to always replace the middle number with 6 regardless of what the numbers are. (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: glev2005
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
I'm working on formatting some attendance data to meet a vendors requirements to upload to their system. With some help on the forums here, I have the data close. But they've since changed what they want.
The vendor wants me to submit three fields to them. Field 1 is the studentid field,... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: axo959
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello all, I'm working on an attendance callout script for a school district. I need to change our current layout for the vendor. Currently the data is in the form of:
studentid,period,building,
Heres a sample of some made up records:
500,1,30,
500,2,30,
500,3,30,
500,6,30,... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: axo959
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
I need to use the $RANDOM command to get a line from a list of lines in a file randomly.
file is
help
go
three
house
film
how do i randomly get one word without looking into the file? (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: relle
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I have a file which contains lots of text (comment field). I would like to parse through the comment field which can be up to 255 characters long and look for anything that seems to resemble, say, a credit card number or customer account number, etc. and replace the numbers with asteriks (*).
... (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: giannicello
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