You should use "test" instead of test
... since test is a shell command !
choose another string that is not a shell command (ex : "mytest") to avoid any confusion ...
Thank you for helping me. The "test" example was just that.... An example. So that is not a problem, it was just to simplify.
The full thing:
1) extracting a number from a file and checking if it is different from what is supposed to be
The above works ok
2) same as before, but in this case the thing to check is a word (or even more than one, but now I am testing with 1 word only). It does not seem working even with square brackets
At stage two I have
I tried to quote "NOT", no difference
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Sorry, I've seen the problem (I think)
I had
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It works but in the other way round
is NOT
so when I do
I expect to do not see the error message, but I have it.
For some reason the word "NOT" extracted with grep is different from the second "NOT"?
I tried anyway to type manually also the first "NOT" (skipping the grep part, and I still have the error message: what is different between the 2 "NOT"?
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I have two files in the following format, with numbers being defined under columns(described by a set of headers) and rows(again defined by a set of identifiers)
2013 2013
Make200 Make201
Merc BMW
Jpur Del
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abc 2
abc 3
abc 4
abc 5
bcd 1
bcd 3
bcd 3
bcd 5
cde 7
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c 5
b 6
a 10
b 16
c 18
a 19
b 21
c 27
a 28
b 33
a 76
a 115
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i have files containing lines of number:
109
107
67
62
..
..
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I have got a file which doesn't have the same number of columns in each line. I would like to print the second column and the one that begins with 33= and has some numbers after '33='
Can you please help me asap?
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I have to write a shell script that converts numbers in to words
below is what i wrote.My script is not running.
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echo -n "Enter number : "
read n
len= echo $n | wc -c
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for ( i=1; i<len; i++ )
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NEW BLOCK
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Hi,
How to separate numbers and words(with full alphabets) in a particular file and store it in two different files.
Please help me out for this.Using shell scripting.
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