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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a Zsh script which invokes another program. One of the paramters to be passed, should be a literal tab, i.e what in common programming languages is often written as "\t".
If it were bash, I think I could use the special form
$"\t"
but this doesn't seem to work (the called program... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: rovf
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2. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
Hi,
I am trying to add few (say 3 days) to sysdate using -
date -d '+ 3 days' +%y%m%d
and it works as expected.
But how to add few (say 3 days) to a literal date value and how bash treats a literal value as a date. Can we say just like in ORACLE TO_DATE that my given literal date value... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: pointers1234
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3. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
have a file1
aaa-bbb-ccc-abcd
aaa-bbb-ccc-bacd
aaa-bbb-ccc-aaad
aaa-bbb-ccc-ahave another file2
aaa-bbb-ccc-a fileusing the fgrep command, trying to have only the literal string returned.
fgrep -f file2 file1 is returning
aaa-bbb-ccc-abcd
aaa-bbb-ccc-aaad
aaa-bbb-ccc-aOnly looking for... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: jimmyf
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
I need to work with records having #AX in the EXP1 , please see my data sample and my attempt below:
$ cat xx
08:30:33 KEY1 (1255) EXP1 VAL:20AX0030006
08:30:33 KEY1 (1255) EXP1 VAL:20AX0030006
08:30:33 KEY1 (1255) EXP1 VAL:20AW0030006
08:30:33 KEY1 (1255) EXP1 VAL:20AW0030006
$ gawk '{... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: migurus
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am trying to identify all messages or prompts from a number of COBOL programs and they can usually be identified by a pair of double quotes on one line. However, sometimes the literal will not be finished on the first line but after a dash in column 7 of the next line, the literal will be... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: wbport
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a file like this:
cat file
name = server
jobname = 1010
snapshot_name = funky_Win2k12_20140213210409
I'm trying to use grep to isolate that first line (name = server), but
grep -f "name = " file
as well as
fgrep "name = " file
returns all 3 lines. How do I return... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: ampsys
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Gurus,
Thanks so much for your help, in advance.
I'm using ksh and outputting a literal string value to an output file, however, Unix isn't playing by SQL's rules. The ampersand character which I'm trying to disply as a knowledge base link is screwing up the output. Typically, the "&&" is... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: WhoDatWhoDer
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi, i have a data file
cat f1.txt
$V01$S
this is 1
$v02$D
this is 2
$v03$F
this is 3
I have a variable $PARM which contains value say 'V01'
I have to print lines from f1.txt that start with '$'<${PARM}>'$'
How do i get matching lines from f1.txt that start with '$' then with ${PARM}... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: ysrini
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
i have a file "Movie.ini" looking e.g. like follows
* MOVIE A
bla bla
MOVIE B
blubb blubb
MOVIE C
I'd like to read the file "Movie.ini" with cat and grep and check whether it includes the string MOVIE only with a '*' at the beginnig.
By doing
"cat Movie.ini| grep MOVIE... (14 Replies)
Discussion started by: ABE2202
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
How can i scan a file in a UNIX script and look for a particular keyword?
For example if i wanted to scan the file "lpcmp165.out" and see if it contains the term "error" or "ERROR" and then return a 0 or 1 or some indicator as such?
Detail example:
sqlplus -s xx/yyyyyyy#@zzz <<EOF >... (11 Replies)
Discussion started by: bobk544
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