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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
I'm looking to write a script that takes a .txt filename as an argument, reads the file line by line, and passes each line to a command. For example, it runs command --option "LINE 1", then command --option "LINE 2", etc. I am fetching object files from a library file, I have all the object file... (2 Replies)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello
Does the unix korn shell provide a function to convert number entered in command line argument to text or Character so that in next step i will convert Chr to Hex (6 Replies)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Say I have a text file, with several lines. Each line may contain spaces or the # symbol.
For each line, I want to pass that line as the path of a file, in order to add it to a tar file.
I've tried this but doesn't work:
cat contents.txt | xargs -0 `tar -uvf contents.tar $1`Any ideas?
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am trying to build a sinkhole for BIND. I created a master zone file for malicious domains and created a separate conf file, but I am stuck.
I have a list of known bd domains that is updated nightly. The file simply contains the list of domains, one on each line:
Bad.com
Bad2.com... (4 Replies)
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
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I need to write a Perl script that the file given as first argument of the command line that will find all occurrences of the string given as the third argument of the command line and replace with the string given as the fourth argument. Name newfound file is specified as the second... (3 Replies)
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6. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Hi,
Well my title isn't very clear I think. So to understand my goal:
I have a script "test1"
#!/bin/bash
xvkbd -text blabla
with xbindkeys, I bind F5 key in order it runs my test1 script
So when I press F5, test1 runs.
I'm under Emacs/Vi and I press F5 in order to have "blabla" be... (0 Replies)
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7. 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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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
hi. i'm using ksh with set -o vi. if i am far down in a directory and try to edit the command line (esc-k to retrieve previous command) the cursor is being positioned over to the left on top of the directory text making the text very difficult to read or work with. seems to be problem with long... (2 Replies)
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
I want to be able to call in my file and make it do it's magic by basically giving it:
FileNAME.pl searchTerm fileToSearch
It runs, and gives me the answers I want, however, it gives me an error:
Can't open GAATTC: No such file or directory at .//restriction_map_better.pl
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I am having to do a lot of searching thru files to replace words. Is there a command that i can run that will alow me to hunt thru a group of files and replace one word with another without having to open each file idividually?
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