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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
This is very basic. Yet Iam struggling to get the right pattern for my check.
Apologize in advance to ask a very lame question.
I have to validate if a value of the variable starts with "efgh" and followed by 6 numbers.
Var1="efgh234567"
The condition Iam trying to achieve is similar to... (6 Replies)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
This is on a CentOS box, I have two scripts that need to run in order.
I want to write a shell script that calls the first script, lets it run and then terminates it after a certain number of hours (that I specify of course), and then calls the second script (they can't run simultaneously) which... (3 Replies)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
I want to append file with a string but before doing that i want to check if this string already exist in that file.I tried with grep on Solaris 10 but unsuccessful.Man pages from grep seems to suggest if the string is found command status will be 0 and if not 1.But i am not finding it.May be i... (2 Replies)
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
Trying to iterate over set of file in current directory and check if the file name in that folder matches certain string. This is what I have so far. Here I am checking if the file name starts with nexus, if so echo file name to log file.
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5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I would like to extract a pattern from a line. The first two characters will always be the same in this pattern, but the proceeding numbers will not be, and the pattern will always be 6 characters long. I would like to get the entire pattern up to a certain symbol, in this case, a period.
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
I used this code to strip-off $-symbol from string values.
a="$980"
b="897"
a=`echo "$a" | sed 's/$/ /g'`
b=`echo "$b" | sed 's/$/ /g'`
echo "$a"
echo "$b"
but this results in the output:
80 and 897
it works when i use
a='$987'
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
I've got a file, where I want to grab two fields from it. The file isn't fixed format, so all I know is that the two fields are after a certain number of delimiters within the record.
File e.g. as follows:-
"1"^"HEADER"^
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello All,
Plz help me with:
I have a csv file with data separated by ',' and optionally enclosed by "". I want to check each of these values to see if they exceed the specified string length, and if they do I want to cut just that value to the max length allowed and keep the csv format as it... (9 Replies)
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