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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am still learning shell scripting. Recently I see a function for read configuration. But some of special character make me confused. I checked online to find answer. It was not successful. I post the code here to consult with expert or guru to get better understanding on these special characters... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: duke0001
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Greetings Experts,
I do have some basic knowledge of Unix. The task I am trying to do through shell script is to generate the view script for all of the tables which is in YYYYMMDD format (I assume I am on Ksh).
I have certain tables that ends in YYYYMMDD format (eg: tbl_20150630)
For each... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: chill3chee
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi friend,
I have one file , and i want to read that file character by character.
I need this script in ksh.
while using read option with -n1 am getting error.
while read -n1 c read has bad option
And if i am using below script, then if in a line has space like this ( Pallvi mahajan)... (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: pallvi_mahajan
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi ,
I am doing some enhancements in an existing shell script. There it used the awk command in a function as below :
float_expr() {
IFS=" " command eval 'awk "
BEGIN {
result = $*
print result
exit(result == 0)
}"'
}
It calls the function float_expr to evaluate two values ,... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: mady135
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5. Solaris
I get a file which has all its content in a single row.
The file contains xml data containing 3000 records, but all in a single row, making it difficult for Unix to Process the file.
I decided to insert a new line character at all occurrences of a particular string in this file (say replacing... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: ducati
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6. HP-UX
Hi Experts,
I have data coming in 4 columns and there are new line characters \n in between the data. I need to remove the new line characters in the middle of the row and keep the \n character at the end of the line.
File is comma (,) seperated.
Eg:
ID,Client ,SNo,Rank
37,Airtel \n... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: sasikari
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi guys , i need help so bad on this issue..
Basically i have to delete the line continuation symbol of first column variable and add the truncated part of that word in next line to first line.
here i written sample 3 lines but originally i have bunch of lines in that file.
client1_day- ... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: chrismorgan
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I am reading data from file and storing it in a multiline variable. Every line is seperated with "\n" character.
globalstrval="${globalstrval}""${line}""\n"
If the value of globalstrval is like:
1234
ABCD
EFGH
WXYZ
....
If I do,
YLvar=`echo $globalstrval | grep "ABC"`
then... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: gupt_ash
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello.
I have a file (old.txt) that I need to copy into another file (new.txt).
Each line on old.txt ends with CR/LF but the position of CR/LF varies from one record to another.
I need to copy each line of record to new.txt and move CR/LF in pos 165.
Can I use awk to achieve this? How?... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: udelalv
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
Good day ladies and gents,
I'm trying to write shell code that can give ignore everything else in a line bar the last character but not having much luck.
Any ideas? I have been looking at cut and sed but not making any progress. (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: Mr_Plow
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