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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello scripting geniusii! I come to kneel before the alter of your wisdom!
I am looking to take a keyword and replace characters within that keyword and add them to a string variable. I would like this to only go through however many characters the word has, which may vary in size.
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Discussion started by: ghaniba
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello.
I have a string variable named L_TEMP to test a very simple filter.
L_TEMP="50AwL.|KWp9jk"
I want to insert a non printable character between K and W.
I have try this :
linux-g65k:~ # a='50AwL.|K'
linux-g65k:~ # b='Wp9jk'
linux-g65k:~ # L_TEMP="$a$'\x07'$b"
linux-g65k:~ # echo... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: jcdole
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
I see a millioin ways to do this with echo, but what I wan to do is assign a variable the "nth" character of an incoming parameter to a ksh script.
$1 will be "pia"
I need to assign the first character to stmttype. (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: klarue
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4. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
echo "hello123" | tr -dc '' | wc -c
using this command i can count the no of times a number from 0-9 occurs in the string "hello123"
but how do i save this result inside a variable?
if i do
x= echo "hello123" | tr -dc '' | wc -c
that does not work...plz suggest..thanks (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: arindamlive
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi.
How to change string variable in awk?
for example, I parse with awk script text file named some_name_with_extension.txt
I want to print only some_name in my script
....
varCompName = FILENAME
print varCompName
How to put not all symbols from FILENAME to variable?
thank you
This... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: cintlt
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hallo!
Example.
#!/bin/bash
BACKUP_DIR=/home/userx/backups/evolution
echo $BACKUP_DIR
# delete the first character from the string
BACKUP_DIR=$(echo $BACKUP_DIR | cut -c 2-)
echo $BACKUP_DIR
It works. It does want I want, delete the first character from string in the... (11 Replies)
Discussion started by: linuxinho
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
I haven't checked any installation script to see how this is done..
But I could not even do following simple task.
How do I Change existing variable value only when user enteres non-empty string. ?
#!/usr/bin/ksh
uid="scott"
# Assign new value user enters to uid, else leave it... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: kchinnam
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
Does anyone know how to code in ksh that will remove the first character in a string variable and replace that variable without the first character?
Example:
var1=ktest1 will become var1=test1
var2=rtest2 will become var2=test2
Need help please. (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: ryukishin_17
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
How...
can I read input by a user character by cahracter. And assign each character from the string to a variable?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thank you! (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: Tek-E
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am facing one problem, can any one please suggest me the command for the same in unix. I am using Ksh.
I have a large file with the data that looks like below.
"ROTO2-2007f","_US01","9/15/2007","9/21/2007",346492,"NICK, LCD WATCH"97,1,"NAPOLITJ ","BERGER,M Z & CO INC",0.01,
... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: mihir0011
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