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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello!
I have one problem with my bash script - I would like to be able to read white space characters from stdin (for example single " ") - can I acomplish that somehow? I need to read only one character at the time, so I use read -s -n 1 var but it doesn't work for whitespaces apparently.
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Discussion started by: xqwzts
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
The "read" command, which is built into bash, takes words from the standard input. However, "read" is not good at taking file names if the file names contain spaces. I would like my bash script to ask the user to enter file names, which may contain spaces. Can you think about any technique for... (14 Replies)
Discussion started by: LessNux
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Is this possible?
I have a for loop in a shell script reading a list, but I want each line to be a loop, not each thing with a space.
Here is the example:
HOSTLIST="\
1.2.3.4 serverA
1.2.3.5 serverB"
for NBUHOST in `echo $HOSTLIST`
do
ssh ${SERVERNAME} "echo "${NBUHOST}"... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: LordJezoX
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
hi
i have a file which store some data.the contents of my file is
data1:data2
data3:data4
i have a script which read this file
correct="$(cat /root/sh | cut -d: -f1)"
i used this syntax..please help me which syntax is used to read blank spaces.and then remove it and after that how to read... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: shubhig15
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5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi
I am a newbie to unix. I have a current script that reads a directory for excel files and renames the files. There is a problem now because some of the files have spaces. If I put quotes on the file, it will work but I dont know how to read all the files with quotes.
Variables
$1 =... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: Lillyt
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a script which read a file it does
while read -r line, then i echo line out
echo "$line"
Problem is the echo does not echo space and tabs at the end of each line. How do i get the end of line space as well (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: kelseyh
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have to read a file line by line, change it and then update the file. Problem is, when i read the file, "read" command ignores leading spaces.
The file is a script which is indented in many places for clarity. How to i make "read" command read leading spaces as well. (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: vickylife
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Dears,
I developed a shell script to read varibales from text file as the following:
cat /dev/null > /rename-OUT.txt
while read line
do
set -- `echo $line`
snmpset -c dslmibs $1 sysName.0 octetstring $2
after=$(snmpget -c dslmibs $1 sysName.0 | cut -d: -f3)
echo "$1,$2,$after" >>... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: ahmed.zaher
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi ,
I use read command to get the input text, When i try to get the line starting with spaces or ending with spaces it automatically truncates the spaces and displays the remaining content.
Code i tried (UserInput.sh):
#!/bin/bash
echo -n "Enter some text > "
read text
echo "You... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: PrakashChinna
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am accessing two files. I am using read command to read from the files.
For the first file, I need read the fields delimited by spaces, and for the other file, I need to read the whole line as a single field including the spaces.
When I used read command for the second file, the spaces... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: kumariak
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