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1. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
Hello, everyone. I'm currently trying to write a command system for a Minecraft server using screen.
Here are the scripts I'm currently using.
0.sh
#!/bin/bash
screen -S Test114 -dm java -Xmx4G -jar server.jar nogui
1.sh
#!/bin/bash
args="$@"
args2="${args@Q}"
#args3=`printf '%q\n'... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Develon
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2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hello, I'm new to command line coding (and coding in general) and have run into a problem. I'm using awk to perform a global find and replace in a text file in the Terminal provided by Mac.
Here is a sample of my textfile where the fields are separated by tabs.
1Ps 1,1 VWB/(J VWB VWB... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: jvoot
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am currently reading a very old reference from O'Reilly: Sed and Awk 2nd Edition reprinted in 2000. So far, it's a solid read and still very relevant. I'd highly recommend this to anyone.
The only problem I have with this book is that I had to resort to bourne shell to get my examples to work... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: ConcealedKnight
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
i made a gnuplot script which accepts a filename as parameter (using gnuplot -e) now i want to run this script from a shell script, the correct command (with a concrete parameter) looks like this:
gnuplot -e 'name="filename.dat;col=2"' gplscript.gpl
my shell script looks like this:
... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: franko007
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Can I use awk to search for a string, passed from the shell, that might include metacharacters?
File1 entries: Bob Marley Jammin (Bonus Track).mp3
File2 entries: Bob Marley Jammin (Bonus Track).mp3 32000 /Music/Bob Marley/ Jammin (Bonus Track).mp3
So far, I have this;
$ sed -e... (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: DSommers
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hello. I am learning how to use Unix through an online course. Unfortunately the text that we use isn't very good, so I could use some help with a pretty basic question.
Use metacharacters and the ll command to list all filenames under the datafiles directory that contain a dot "." with the... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: feverdream
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi there,
i am struggling with this one, basically i want to replace an existing path string in a file with a new one, but the new one contains slashes which causes problems with "sed", i thought i could change the replacement string into a variable but of course when the variable is evaluated... (4 Replies)
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I am using the KSH shell. I am facing a problem of escaping apostrophe('), that is occuring in a variable.
I used the following command, but in vain
item=`echo $item|sed 's/'/\'/g'`
this code replaces the occurance of ' in an xml file to apostrophe(') symbol.
The output of... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: mradul_kaushik
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
When trying to escape special character * - it doesn't seem to work. In korn shell trying to store a local variable as follows
sample=test*
echo $sample - gets all the file names starting with test* , instead i want to literally store the value test* into a variable. I tried escaping with \, with... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: prekida
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
using ksh on HP 11.11.
I'm new to HP, so maybe it's something I need to turn on in HP, but I figured it's probably in ksh.
If I run "grep aaa" (or any command) Whenever I try to Ctrl-C it does not work. I'm not saying it did work before, as I'm new to the environment.
Do I need to set a... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: dangral
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