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1. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
Dear UNIX forum members,
I am using macbook pro 13 (2015 edition) with MAC OS Mojave and am trying to write the shell script where when it is run through terminal it asks for an input (in the code below an input variable is domains) and then that input becomes capital letter or letters which... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: Aurimas
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
I have a file which has hundred of records with fixed number of fields. In each record there is set of 8 characters which represent the duration of that activity. I want to sum up the duration present in all the records for a report. The problem is the duration changes per record so I... (5 Replies)
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3. Red Hat
Hi all,
Hereby wish to have your advise for below:
Main concept is
I intend to get current directory of my script file.
This script file will be copied to /etc/init.d.
A string in this copy will be replaced with current directory value.
Below is original script file:
... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: cielle
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi!
If I'm trying something like:
echo "hello world" | myvar=`awk -F "world" '{print $1}'`
echo $myvar
myvar is always empty :confused:
I googled for houres now and don't understand why it isn't working...
Trying it in normal bash.
Can someone explain it to me so I can say "Of course!... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: al0x
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I am trying to run this command:
ED_CMD="$Access_OPS $ED_Logs_Dir/access | $lgrep -v $Access_Err"
$lgrep $ED_CMD
However, i am getting an error "Failed to open |: Broken pipe at "
My question is how to put a pipe within a variable.
Thanks. John. (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: john_prince
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi ,
I would like to assign command (with pipe) output to a variable. The code is as follows. The goal of the code is to get the last folder folder with a particular name pattern.
myDate=`ls | grep 2009 | tail -1`
echo "myDate=" $myDate
However, in the presence of the pipe, the code... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: jeff_cen
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
I have a variable say var1 (output from somewhere, which I can't change)which store something like this:
echo $var1
name=fred
age=25
address="123 abc"
password=pass1234
how can I make the variable $name, $age, $address and $password contain the info?
I mean do this in a... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: freddy1228
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a string of commands I am piping some data through and I want to allow command line switches to select which commands are used. I want to do something like this: OPTION="| command3"
command1 -a -b c.txt | command2 -d -e $OPTION >result.txt
I want to do it that way because OPTION may be... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: KenJackson
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
I want to instert Category:XXXXX into the 2. line
something like this should work, but I have somewhere the wrong sytanx. something with the linebreak goes wrong:
sed "2i\\${n}Category:$cat\n"
Sample:
Titel Blahh Blahh abllk sdhsd sjdhf
Blahh Blah Blahh
Blahh
Should look like... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: lowmaster
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
haven't found anything about this through searching, so may be a new topic:
when doing this:
set -o nounset
set -o errexit
find . -name "*.lib" | while read library; do
echo ${libary}
done
echo "after while"
I expect the script to exit within the while loop (because of nounset and... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: nagaidhlig
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