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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a folder with files and I have to process them in a loop. However the filenames have space characters, so the list get split.
$ touch "File Number_1"
$ touch "File Number_2"
$ ls "/tmp/File Number"_*
/tmp/File Number_1 /tmp/File Number_2
I tried following (sorry for using the... (3 Replies)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi
I'm trying to loop through an array that contains other arrays and these arrays consist of strings with spaces. The problem is that I can't seem to preserve the spacing in the string. The string with spaces are either divided into multiple items if I change IFS to \n or all the elements of... (4 Replies)
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3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi all,
I've been tangoing with this one for a couple of days now and I'm still not making any progress.
Basically I'm trying to match three numbers in a string from a text file with matching numbers in a jpeg, and then copying the results to another folder.
Data looks like this:
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi Guys,
I'm trying to find all files with a particular extension and then loop some actions. The problem is that if the files have spaces in their names I get end up being each word as a separate result rather than the entire file.
ext=".txt"
out=".rtf"
for i in $( find "$1" -name "*$ext" );... (9 Replies)
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Is this possible?
I have a for loop in a shell script reading a list, but I want each line to be a loop, not each thing with a space.
Here is the example:
HOSTLIST="\
1.2.3.4 serverA
1.2.3.5 serverB"
for NBUHOST in `echo $HOSTLIST`
do
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi there,
I don't understand the following behavior:
toto:~$ for word in un "deux trois"; do echo $word; done
un
deux trois
toto:~$ sentence='un "deux trois"'
toto:~$ for word in $sentence; do echo $word; done
un
"deux
trois"
toto:~$ sentence="un 'deux trois'"
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
i call my shell like:
my_shell "my project name"
my script:
#!/bin/bash -vx
projectname=$1
sed s/'PROJECT_NAME ='/'PROJECT_NAME = '$projectname/ <test_config_doxy >temp
cp temp test_config_doxy
the following error occurres:
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi
I have an XML file with strings XABCD, XEFGHX and XIJKLX. I would like to replace XABCDX with "This is the first string", XEFGHX with "This is the second string" and XIJKLX with "This is the third string".
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
HI
In my script, i am reading the input from the user and want to find the length of the string.
The input may contain leading spaces. Right now, when leading spaces are there, they are not counted.
Kindly help me
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hello All,
This question is actually for the service console of VMware ESX 3.5 but is relevant to this forum I think. I have been advised to use the following commands:
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do
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