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1. SCO
is there a way to overwrite what I have typed in rather than having to hit enter and re enter the command?
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
The problem I met is the conflict between the default command /usr/bin/sometools, which is an very old version at system setup, and an updated one I have installed in $HOME/download-software/sometools
How do I tell a third program to use the customized sometools instead of the default... (6 Replies)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I am running a script sample.sh in bash environment .In the script i am using sed and awk commands which when executed individually from terminal they are getting executed normally but when i give these sed and awk commands in the script it is giving the below errors :-
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello All,
I had just a question about my Bash Script I'm currently writing.
The script I have writes some text to a output file. After I write to the output file I send the file to another server to do
some stuff with it.
After the file sends in the script, I don't need the output/txt... (4 Replies)
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Is there a way to overwrite a specific field (i.e. line 2 field 3 without getting its contents). For example I would like to simply have a compatible Solaris 10 command line that replaces line 2 field 3 with contents of a variable. I would like to use SED or AWK if possible, but other suggestions... (1 Reply)
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
my script is:
awk '...mycode...' file1.txt > file2.txt
and i want to overwrite file2.txt eachtime I run this script. but it says:File exists! :( I have tried
awk '...mycode...' file1.txt >| file2.txt but it again says:Missing name for redirect! :confused::confused:
what is this? (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: gc_sw
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Okay, title is kind of confusion, but basically, I have a lot of scripts on a server that I need to replace a ps command, however, the new ps command I'm trying to replace the current one with pipes to sed at one point. So now I am attempting to create another script that replaces that line.
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi
im using the following to copy a file to a directory, the user being prompted to overwrite if the file already exists in that directory,
cp -i myfile /home/brief/bin2
but this reveals the path of the directory when being prompted to overwrite (below)
cp: overwrite... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: ali999
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
if i want to pipe output to a file, say,
cat abc.dat > abc.txt, how do i make it replace the existing file? (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: Duckman
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