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1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I want to pass value of a variable track_line which is the line number to sed. Sed should print the lines starting from track_line till the last
line of the file. I tried the below command but it is not working.
sed -n '${track_line},$p' latest_log_file
I tried using the below too but... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: nitinupadhyaya8
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi
I have below sed to search and print particular line that matches in file and prints it, which is actually working fine as expected.
sed -n "/^2012-11-19 23:*/p" filename
but if I replace date with the variable it seems it's not recognizing it and throwing out error
v="2012-11-19"... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: manas_ranjan
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hey guys,
I know that title is a mouthful - I'll try to better explain my struggles a little better...
What I'm trying to do is:
1. Query a db and output to a file, a list of column data.
2. Then, for each line in this file, repeat these values but wrap them with:
ITEM{
... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: ampsys
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Would really appreciate it if someone could point out my mistake in this line of code, i've been staring blankly at it trying everything i can think of some time now and coming up with nothing.
#!/bin/bash
echo "Enter Username"
read Username
awk -F: -v var=${Username} '/^var:/... (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: Nostyx
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi guys,
I wanted to pass a variable to the sed command which tells which line to be deleted.
a=2;
echo $a;
sed '$ad' c.out
it is throwing an error.
sed: 0602-403 "$a"d is not a recognized function.
I even tried "$a" and \$a.. but it is of no use.
Can you please correct me... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: mac4rfree
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Dear All,
I want to print a file.
First I tried with this
sed '2q;d' filename
it worked. But when i put following it is not working
x=2;
sed '$xq;d' filename
Would any one suggest how to pass the variable? (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: saifurshaon
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
i'm on a Mac running BSD unix.
i have a script in which i ask the user to input the name of a mounted volume. i then call SED to substitute backslashes and spaces in place of the spaces. that looks like this:
echo "Enter the name of the volume"
read Volume
echo "You've chosen \"$Volume\""... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: hungryd
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi, I'm a bit of sed n00b here.
My issue is as follows:
I'm trying to pass a variable to sed so that all instances of this variable (in a text file) will be replaced with nothing. However, the value of this variable will always be a folder location e.g. "C:\Program Files\Folder1"
I... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: Mr_Plow
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
:confused: Is it possible to send a variable to a sed or cut command? I have a test script as below:
counter=1
while read line
do
# Test the file
printf "$line" > temp$counter
pref=$(cut c1-2000 $temp$counter | sed 's///g' | sed 's|.*PutTime\(.*)Origin.*|\1|')
printf" let... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: gugs
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
I m trying to pass variable to sed.
export var=140920060731
sed -e '/$var/d' file
but no luch so far..? any body has any idea abt it
Is there any way to pass variable to SED?
Thanks ,
Manish (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Manish Jha
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