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1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
This could be a really dummy question.
I have a log text file.
What unix command to extract line from specific string to another specific string.
Is it something similar to?:
more +/"string" file_name
Thanks (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: aku
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2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
hi,
while in vi, we use /string to look for the particular string. after that operation, the particular string is highlighted in yellow color.
how do i take the highlight off?
thanks so much. (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: hobiwhenuknowme
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3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi guys
Quick question
Im creating an FTP server and im chrooting each user to there home directory blah blah. Ive also setup scponly so there locked etc.
Im a novice at unix and have just reaslised the primary group of scponly is the username of one of the ftp users... which im sure... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: mokachoka
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
When I have a file like this:
0084AF aj-123-a NAME Ajay NAME Kumar Engineer
015ED6 ck-345-c
020B25 ef-456-e
027458 pq-890-p NAME Peter NAME Salob Doctor
0318F0 xy-123-x NAME Xavier Arul NAME Yesu Supervisor
0344CA de-456-d
where - The first NAME is followed by... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: ajay41aj
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am using sed to find a pattern in a line and then I want to retain the pattern + the rest of the line. How is this possible? ie:
line is: 14158 05-15-08 20:00 123-1234-A21/deliverable/dhm.a
search for 123-1234-A21 ie:
echo $line | sed 's/.*\(\{3\}-\{4\}-\{3\}\{5\}\).*/\1/'
... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: phreezr
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Just wondering if there's a better way to get these complete sentences into an array and keep the quotes intact? All the quotes make it look ugly to me but it works. I want to be able to refer to the full sentences by index. I've tried a few qw and qq/ aproaches but what I have below seems about... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: gctaylor
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7. AIX
Hi,
At best I'm a junior admin with a big problem.
My developers have got my root password and mgmt insists they need it.
I can't even change it when people knowing it leave.
I'm certain they've hardcoded it into routines. I've searched my servers and grepped everything & can't find it.
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Discussion started by: keith.m
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hello all,
Quick question from a fairly new to Unix developer.
if
then
completedLogFile=$logfile.$(date +%Y%m%d-%H:%M:%S)
mv $logfile $completedLogFile
fi
I understand that this portion of code is simply copying a tmp logfile to a completed logfile when a condition is true. The... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: JohnnyBoy
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi guys
sed -e "s/$<//g"
the $< can allow me to assign an input value to the variable right?
do the double quotes check the previous context? (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: hamoudzz
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Wat is the difference between the cp mv ln etc in /usr/sbin/static
and cp mv ln functions in /usr/bin (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: DPAI
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