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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Here is what I'm trying to do.
A query embedded with a unix variable is stored in the database table. When it is pulled out, it has a variable in it and it needs to be replaced by the variable passed to the script below.
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a file
$ cat myfile
A 02/16/2012
B 02/19/2012
C 02/20/2012
D 02/17/2012
E 02/16/2012
My simple script
> cat myscript.sh
mydate="02/16/2012"
awk ' ($2~/$mydate/) {print $1}' < myfile
but I got no output! and when I try $2~/'$mydate'/
I got: The error context is (2 Replies)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi guys,
I'm using tcsh.
I have a string that contains variable names: "var1:var2:var 3", I want to be able to do different operations on the content of those variables:
I extract the variable names with: foreach var ( `echo $string | sed 's/:/\n/g'`)
now in the variable `var` I have the... (1 Reply)
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
I'm working in korn shell and have a variable which contains a string like:
aa_yyyymmdd_bbb_ccc_ddd.abc. I want to treat the _ and . as delimiters and parse the string so I end up with 6 values in variables that I can manipulate. My original plan was to use
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
i have
/tmp/dev/string1/testfile.txt
i need only testfile.txt
How can get that..can anyone helpme out
Thanx (2 Replies)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have two variables and want to perform some functions after comparison
$cat file1
14.abcde
a=`cut -f 1 -d "." file1
b=15
if
then
....
fi
but i got an error message says that unary operator expected
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
HI all,
Very new to shell programming and just wanted some help on how to solve the following problem.
I have a small shell script which searches a given file and extracts some string parameters. I want to now be able to call this script from another shell script and somehow pass the parameters... (11 Replies)
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
search=Jul 22
date=Jul 22
if
then
echo They match
>>this piece of code does not detect that search and date are equivalent strings.. what's wrong with it? (17 Replies)
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
I am an intermediate scripter. I can usually find and adapt what I need by searching through previous postings, but I'm stumped.
I have a string with the format "{Name1 Release1 Type1 Parent1} {Name2 Release2 Type2 Parent2}". It is being passed as an argument into a ksh script. I need to... (5 Replies)
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