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1. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
I'm curious to know how do I add an empty log file (test1.log) to an existing text file to monitor all the changes made to a.txt.
Is this expression
export PATH=$PATH:/home/test1.log
right to be added to the text file a.txt? (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: TestKing
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2. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
Hello,
I am creating a file with all the source folders included in my git branch, when i grep for the used source, i found source included as relative path instead of absolute path, how can convert relative path to absolute path without changing directory to that folder and using readlink -f ? ... (4 Replies)
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3. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Currently I am using this laborious command
lvdisplay | awk '/LV Path/ {p=$3} /LV Name/ {n=$3} /VG Name/ {v=$3} /Block device/ {d=$3; sub(".*:", "/dev/dm-", d); printf "%s\t%s\t%s\n", p, "/dev/mapper/"v"-"n, d}'
Would like to know if there is any shorter method to get this mapping of... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: royalibrahim
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have following path:
set file_path = D:/forums/prac/somedir/new1/file1.txt
or set file_path = E:/new/forums1/prac/somedir/new2/file2.txt
I need to grep "somedir" from file path. In this case preceding directory "prac" remains same for both the paths, but directories preceding... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: sarbjit
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi guys. I'm doing some bash scripting and have run into a snag.
Say I have the path:
/home/one/two/three/
All I need is the 'three' while making a filename.
Is there an easy way to do this? I've tried using grep (because I'm that smart.) cut (as I'm unable to tell how many fields there... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: Drayol
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have a file abcd.txt which has contents in the form of full path file names i.e.
$home> vi abcd.txt
/a/b/c/r1.txt
/q/w/e/r2.txt
/z/x/c/r3.txt
Now I want to retrieve only the directory path name for each row
i.e
/a/b/c/
/q/w/e/
How to get the same through shell script?... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: royzlife
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
How can I extract parts from an absolute path?
For example :
The absolute path is /dir1/dir2/dir3/dir4/dir5.I need the relative path starting with directory given as parameter : for instance if the parameter is dir3 then the result should be dir3/dir4/dir5
I need generic solution... (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: mortanon
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi ,
a:) i have configuration file with pattren
<Range start no>,<Range end no>,<type of records to be extracted from the data file>,<name of the file to store output>
eg:
myfile.confg
9899000000,9899999999,DATA,b.dat
9899000000,9899999999,SMS,a.dat
b:) Stucture of my data file is... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: suparnbector
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi
I'll be getting a directory path as the input to the script.
E.g. 1 abc/fsg/sdfhgsa/fasgfsd/adfghad/XXX/fhsad
e.g. 2 sadfg/sadgjhgds/sd/dtuc/cghcx/dtyue/dfghsdd/XXX/qytq
This input will be stored in a variable.
My query is how to extract the field in a variable VAR which occurs... (15 Replies)
Discussion started by: skyineyes
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I have a file with about 60 lines of path:
app-defaults/boxXYZ.......
I want to change this to /my/path/goes/here/app-defaults/boxXYZ, but of course vi doesn't like the regualr :s/old/new/ command.
Is there any other quick way to do this?
Thanks ;) (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Yinzer955i
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