... the variable $IP inserts a newline before being printed or used.
...<snip>...
Why is this happening
After a brief glance at your code, I'd say the echo is to blame. If you don't need it, remove it. Or, you can do as DGPickett suggests and not quote the $IP.
I am working on converting shell to Perl script. In shell we have built in function
trap
Do you know alternative in Perl or actually we don't need it?
Thanks for contribution (3 Replies)
I have a shell script (.sh) and I want to pass a parameter value to the awk command but I am getting exception, please assist.
diff=$1$2.diff
id=$2 new=new_$diff
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##awk command I am using is as below
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Good day ...
Well i do have this project in school, in our Principles Of Operating System Class
We are using Cygwin....
And our project goes like this...
Create a dictionary using cygwin. Display the following menu at the start of execution
1-add a word in the dictionary # specify the... (1 Reply)
Good day ...
Well i do have this project in school, in our Principles Of Operating System Class
We are using Cygwin....
And our project goes like this...
Create a dictionary using cygwin. Display the following menu at the start of
execution
1-add a word in the dictionary # specify... (1 Reply)
Hi guys,
Does awk have a built-in variable which I can use to display the input file it's currently reading?
I'm currently concatenating multiple files using awk and later on do some parsing. But for now, I want to add an extra column in the main output data file - basically putting in the... (3 Replies)
According to the POSIX specifications eval is a special shell built-in, which should imply that variable assignments specified together with it should remain in effect after the built-in completes. Thus one would expect IFS to be changed after this:
var=$'a\nb c'
$ IFS=$'\n' eval '
for i in... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I have multiple functions that can be called by any shell script. These functions have inbuilt echo statements to logs their activity into a log file. When I run multiple shell scripts that call these functions, they all log into the same log file and I am not able to differentiate which... (2 Replies)