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1. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
So I'm trying to search for the top 10 or 15 items under a directory by file type. I want to run a command on a directory and get something like the following:
Example of expected output.. .PDF: 100, .txt: 95, .word: 80..
What would be the best way of going about this? I've searched around... (2 Replies)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
I have a file name like FIRST_DPF_DAILY_CUST_0826152322.txt
i need to extract the string after the third "_" underscore upto timestamp ends i.e CUST_0826152322
can anyone help me with the code
Thank you!
Regards
Srikanth Sagi (3 Replies)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
KSH
HP-SOL-Lin
Cannot use xAWK
I have several strings that are quite long and i want to break them down into smaller substrings.
What I have
String = "word1 word2 word3 word4 .....wordx"
What I want
String1="word1 word2"
String2="word 3 word4"
String3="word4 word5"
Stringx="wordx... (5 Replies)
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi
I am trying to search for a certain set of patterns within a file, and then perform other commands based on output.
testfile contents:
password requisite pam_cracklib.so lcredit=-1 ucredit=-1 ocredit=-1
script:
D="dcredit=-1"
if
then
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi Guys...
I want to search for each file that contains a particular string.
e.g find . -print | xargs grep -i string_name
Now my issue is the files that I search in are gzipped.
Will I be able to find the string, using the above commands, even if the files are gzipped?
Please... (2 Replies)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
I found some posts describing how to completely clean out a mailbox in Unix/Linux. But I want to keep the 50 most recent messages. Any ideas out there?
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I am new to unix shell scripting.
I have a requirement.
Could anyone help me writing the script for the same?
Here goes the requirement:
I have a config file let's say temp.config.
Here is the data in the config file
temp.config :
-------------
name=victor
age=42
state=texas... (5 Replies)
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I need to search for a specific string in a file and if this string exist I need to replace it with something else. I am not sure how I could do this, using an if statement. (2 Replies)
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
Need to extract a string from one file and search the same in other files.
Ex:
I have file1 of hundred lines with no delimiters not even space.
I have 3 more files.
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Is there a way to search an entire file system for the occurance of a string..... other than grep.
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