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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have a list of files in a directory. Each file has a .txt and a .log extension i.e. file.txt & file.log, file1.txt & file1.log etc. The file with the .log extension may not always exist alongside the file with the .txt extension.
I need to copy the .txt file if there is a corresponding... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: brunlea
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello
i tried many times echo $variables into text file with no success
for example:
echo "#!/bin/sh
BBHTAG=RFOCLT_check # What we put in bb-hosts to trigger this test
COLUMN=RFOCLT # Name of the column, often same as tag in bb-hosts
$BBHOME/bin/bbhostgrep $BBHTAG | while read... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: mogabr
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a txt file
output.txt
Freq = 1900
L = 159I want to assign the values to a variable so that i can further use it in some other script.
like
F=1900
Len=159
etc
i tried doing something with awk but dosent work
F=$(awk 'BEGIN {}/Freq/ {split ($2,a);depth=a};printf "%d\t,... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: shashi792
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Friends,
I have a file output.txt with values as below:
092307135717
061910135717
I want to know how to read this file and then assign each value to a variable.
say like
var1=092307135717
var2=061910135717
So that I can use this VAR1 and Var2 in the shell script for further processing.... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: shyamaladevi
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
I was trying to store the number of lines in a file and store it in a file.after that i want to store the information in a file to a variable which is further used in the if loop to check certain condition.
#!/bin/bash
cat <file> | wc -l > count.txt
x="$count.txt";
i=10;
if ; then
cat... (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: sudhakaryadav
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi Gurus,
I am new to unix.I have a requirement as below
I have text file like a.txt which contains
a.txt
hi hello
process update
status
Ok to Proceed no issues good
data arrangement
My requirement here is i need to read the file and check for the words
"OK to Proceed" and if... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: pssandeep
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a file with a single filename in it, which I want to assign to a BASH variable, so I've been trying:
c=$(head -1 somefile)
echo $c
which outputs correctly, but them when I do
...
somecommand $c
it says it can't find the file, is that because it's grabbing the whole line, and... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: unclecameron
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I need to place a number located in a text file in a variable so I can perform if/then comparison. How would I go about doing this? Using A=awk '{print $2}' maintenance_date.tmp does not seem to work.
Thanks (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: mojoman
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have written a script to retrieve phone numbers from an error log and output the phone numbers into an text file. I then use the list of phone numbers to process each value into a variable so I can run a sql query and update the database. My problem is I can only process the first value... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: rdr411
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am missing something here, I have a file which contains only one line and that is either a number or character string. I am trying to read the file and assign that value to a variable and here it seems I am missing something and not getting the expected results... Here is the code :
#!/bin/ksh... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Vaddadi
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