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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
What does -a operator for String manipulation imply?
Eg: if ;then (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Sree10
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
I am a newbie...I would like to have a function which ll check if a file contains valid strings before "=" operator. Just to give you my requirement:
assume my file has content:
hello= gsdgsd sfdsg sgdsg sgdgdg
world= gggg hhhh iiiii
xxxx= pppp ppppp pppp
my... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: rtagarra
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have to get the last value from a string, below is the example string
String -> Here is the test string 12233
O/P -> 12233
String -> Hello world 500
O/P -> 500
String -> 300
O/P -> 300
Please help (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: vel4ever
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4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi All,
I am trying to to compare a string variable with a string literal inside a loop but keep getting the
./testifstructure.sh: line 6:
#!/bin/sh
BOOK_LIST="BOOK1 BOOK2"
for BOOK in ${BOOK_LIST}
do
if
then echo '1'
else
echo '2'
fi
done
Please use next... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: daveu7
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
i've a string
/u/asak/DATE/TEST_LOGS/20110704_033429_test11_w_2_120/HDD/test11_w_2_12/hd-120
i need to extract string which is test11_w_2_120, this can be start with anything, numbers, characters with underscore etc.. but the time stamp 20110704_033429_ with two underscores will be... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: asak
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6. Solaris
I Have a script which gets the status of oracle database and if the status is READ WRITE ..it should echo "db is up " else "db is down"
Here is the code
if
then
echo "db up"
else
echo "db down"
fi
done;
The script is giving me out put "db down" even thoug the value of... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: njafri
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi
I need help with a script to read certain strings from a file, the content is as below.
File A
=====
grant select on *.* TO 'root'@'localhost' identified by password 'sfsdfsdfsd';
I need all the words between grant and TO in to a new file.
I also need the value right next to... (13 Replies)
Discussion started by: bubbly
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all
How do I use awk such that it does not require an input file? I have a situation where I need to process some shell vars within awk (passed into awk with "-v VAR1=$VALUE1, VAR2=$VALUE2" etc), but that processing does not require/use an input file.
Any guidance?
TIA
JG (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: jgrogan
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Iam trying to compare the string in if else... but some how its not working
following is the code
On executing the above one its giving a error message ': bad number'
in the above parameter l & k are numbers and dbfiles and patchefiles are array
If i do echo ift working fine
... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: kiranlalka
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
I need to parse a string in a shell script. I understand there is some in built function to use that. can someone explain the syntax ?
Say, it is like this
#!/bin/ksh
read input
# input is entered as 'welcome'
#Now I want to extract say only first 4 characters or last four #characters.
... (19 Replies)
Discussion started by: asutoshch
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