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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All;
I have 2 variable let's say $A and $B. These are actually some remotely executed command outputs. I captured these values in my local variables. Here is my problem. When I try to do some arithmetic operation with these variables, I receive an error message. Neither expr nor typeset -i... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: Meacham12
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
I'm trying to write a basic bash script that takes input you give (what directory, if any, what name, if any ....) and passes the information to find.
I'm trying to just create a string with all variables and then pass it to find. So far I have this extremely simple:
#!/bin/bash -f
... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Starting_Leaf
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all
I have data files which contain data as shown below:
Line 5: FIDE
INST_DESC: DIAM Co Ltd/Japan => MAID Co Ltd/Japan
INST_NME: DIAM Co Ltd/Japan => MAID Co Ltd/Japan
Line 6: FIDE
INST_DESC: DIAM DL/Pimco US Bond Open Born in the USA => MAID DL/Pimco US Bond Open Born in the... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: Ganesh_more
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I've been stuck for several days on this. Using grep on a command line, I can use quotes, eg...
grep 'pattern of several words' filename
I want to do this in my bash script. In my script I have captured the several command line arguments (eg arg1 arg2) into a variable:
variable=$@
I... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: adrian777uk
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello All,
I am learning BASH scripting and I would appreciate any help with a small problem I am having...
I am writing a script that builds a simple hosts file for DNS reasons related to a piece of software called netdb by parsing another application's config files for IP's and their... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: Wesley545
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hello,
Why is this not working in a script?
files="test.fsa"
echo $files
for file in $files
do
if
then
echo "$file does not exist."
fi
run a command
done
I get an error saying (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: verse123
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi ,I am trying to assign string to variable ,but it doesn't work
Also could you show me different ways to use grep,(I am trying to get the first,second and first column form file,and I am counting the chars)
let name=`grep "$id" product | cut -c6-20` (25 Replies)
Discussion started by: lio123
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Is there any inbuilt functionality in Unix shell script so that i can able to convert lower case string input to an upper case?
I dont want to use high level languages like java,python or perl for doing the job. (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: pinga123
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hey,
So I've run into a problem, due to my limited knowledge of Bash scripting.
Basically I've got a long script and I want to understand it before I even try and edit it. As long as I don't understand the script, I will not bother editing it.
Anyway, the following variable confuses me... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: abciscool
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
In a bash script I've set a variable that is the directory name of where an executable lives.
the_dir=`dirname $which myscript`
which equates to something like "/path/to/dir/bin"
I need to cut that down to remove the "bin" so I now have "/path/to/dir/".
This sounds easy but as a... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Witty
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