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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All, I am a newbie to Shell scripting. I have a requirement to Delimit the file fields of a Input file having special characters and spaces with ";".
Input File
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Server Port
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Local ... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: Suganbabu
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
I am trying to find a way to change first letter in a word from lower case to upper case. It should be done for each first word in text or in paragraph, and also for each word after punctuation like
. ; : ! ?I found the following command
sed -i 's/\s*./\U&\E/g' $@ filenamebut... (7 Replies)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
im able to search for string in a file (ex: grep -w "$a" input.txt). but i have to search for the uppercase of a string in a file where upper case of the file content matches something like below.
where upper("$a")== converted to upper case string in (input.txt)
can someone please provide... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: p_satyambabu
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi Experts.
I'm stuck with the below AWK code where i'm trying to move the records containing any special characters in the last field to a bad file.
awk -F, '{if ($NF ~ /^|^/) print >"goodfile";else print >"badfile"}' filename
sample data
1,abc,def,1234,A *
2,bed,dec,342,* A ... (6 Replies)
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hey Everyone,
I'm quite new to unix (hence the 0 posts!) and im trying to write a simple program that outputs what the user types in to the screen, as long as it is a letter.
This part works fine, however, when a "\" is entered doesnt not display anything and moves to the next line. Is... (11 Replies)
Discussion started by: ultiron
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi Forum.
I've tried to search online for a solution but I cannot seem to find one.
Hopefully, someone here can help me out. I would appreciate it.
Input file abc.txt:
$InputFile_Borrower=CMTSLST\EDW_COMMERCIAL_MTGE_BORROWER_dat.lst... (14 Replies)
Discussion started by: pchang
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Environment: Sun UNIX
Language: Bourne Shell
Problem:
I am writing a script that allows user to key in a directory. Example: /root/tmp.
Since the user can key in anything he/she wants, I need to validate to make sure that he/she does not key in anything funny i.e.... (37 Replies)
Discussion started by: totziens
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi I have two questions.
1. how to convert "EverythingIsFine" to "Everything Is Fine" in a txt file.
2. how to convert everything to upper case letter and reverse, I hope there is a general purpose script for this. (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: onthetopo
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
In my shell script, i'm checking the date input against few constraints. It should be of YYYYMMDD format and the script should prompt the user with error message, if less than 8 digits are present or input contains special characters (*,&,%,^,$ ...etc). The script i'm using is given... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: sumesh.abraham
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
Using sed or tr, how do I change "fred" into "Fred" or "fReD" into "Fred" (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: tisons
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