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1. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
I have googled this and found many solutions, but none of them are working for me. I am in a korn shell, most others reference bsh, maybe that is the issue? Anyway, all I am trying to do is use a variable I have declared in my main script in a remote shell I am running through ssh.
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi. I'm getting the following hidden characters \uat the start of a string after I pass in variables from the command line. I only noticed this when I set -x in my KSH script. Can anybody tell me how this happens and how to remove them?
Many thanks.
+ STR=$'\uusername testuser1'
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
here's what im trying to do.
i have a file containing lines similar to this:
data.txt:
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Example:
while read line
do
stat -c %G $line
done < somefile.txtThe problem is that inside somefile.txt lines can have any symbol allowed as file name, like (). Even with spaces, it splits the words.
somefile.txt:dira/my first jump.avi
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I am trying to write a shell script to help with some digital signature work currently being undertaken where we have a file that contains a number of rows ending with ^M.
What I need to do is concatenate this using shell scripting and retain the control character. E.G.
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I've a csv file seperated by '|' from which I'm trying to remove the excess '|' characters more than the existing fields. My CSV looks like as below.
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
hi
i am writing a hangman script and am having trouble checking the correct letters against the word
i need the script to compare the word against the letters guessed that are correct so once all the letters within the word have been guessed it will alow me to create a wining senario
eg
... (13 Replies)
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8. Homework & Coursework Questions
hi
i am writing a hangman script and am having trouble checking the correct letters against the word
i need the script to compare the word against the letters guessed that are correct so once all the letters within the word have been guessed it will alow me to create a wining senario
this must... (1 Reply)
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
hi
i am writing a hangman script and am having trouble checking the correct letters against the word
i need the script to compare the word against the letters guessed that are correct so once all the letters within the word have been guessed it will alow me to create a wining senario
eg
... (3 Replies)
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
My Perl script reads input from stdin and prints it out to stdout. After I read input I use BACKSPACE to erase characters. However BACKSPACE does not work with Unicode characters that are multi-bytes. On screen the character is erased but underneath only one byte is deleted instead of all... (3 Replies)
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