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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
can someone explain how this aliases work:
alias m 'if ( \!:$ =~ *gz) set status = 1 && most \!:$ || gzcat \!:1 | most '
I mean, I know what it does, but I don't know how
- what is \!:$ and \!:1
- how do it used the && and ||
- what it does with status variable?
thanks (3 Replies)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
My professor has given me a couple of functions that I am to use to accomplish the task of replacing spaces in file and/or directory names with hyphens.
(i.e. A B/C D/E F and you want to rename that to A B/C D/E-F would be an example of changing the file and leaving the directories)
These are... (1 Reply)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
VARA='hello|welcome|gone|fantastic|superb|nicecar'
if VARA contains a pipe "|", i want the contents of VARA to be tranformed to:
VARA="(hello) (welcome) (gone) (fantastic) (superb) (nicecar)"
so that, when i echo the contents of $VARA like this:
echo "$VARA"
or like this:
print... (8 Replies)
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
I am new to shell scripting. I have a question I would greatly appreciate any suggestions on. I am writing a ksh script that will launch bin files. The files are owned root and the application runs under root. The application administrators do not get root access. The script is intended... (1 Reply)
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
I am processing data. In the first column there is the date ("2011 02 03 12 45") separated by space and follow I have the measurements.I have several days in one file. What I would like to do is:
to read the data line by line and write the data of "today" in a new file and "yesterday" as... (13 Replies)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
hi and sorry for crossposting...
I have data, the first column is the date ("2011 02 03 12 45") and follow I have the measurements . What I would like to do is:
to read the data line by line and write the data of "today" in a new file and "yesterday" as well in another file, separated by... (2 Replies)
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
i write a shell program and i execute that after i made a bin directiry in my home directory(i didnt give any permissions)
now i change to other directory.then i execute it bit it is saying " no such a file or directory"
can any one help me please (2 Replies)
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
How can I redirect all stdout and stderr messages from a command to /dev/null (or to a file if need be) except messages that start with the word 'foo'? Messages that start with 'foo' need to be displayed in real time (i.e., when they are sent to stdout/stderr by the command). Thanks. (5 Replies)
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
en...how to grep some words from some file,
the goal is that, we donot want the words are exactly 9 charactor,
and want to grep from some words that are longer than 9 and it contain a substring that with 9 different charactors (2 Replies)
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
the current pwd is:
c:\cygwin\home\hui
which command can go to
c:\documents and setting\hui\my documents\hui\reply.txt (1 Reply)
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