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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Can someone please explain the strange behaviour.. I was just trying a few things to learn awk..
in the below code when I start the braces in the same line, the output is as expected, when I start at next line, output is displayed twice.
Please see the file, code I tried and output below.
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Discussion started by: Kulasekar
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi there.
I'm facing a strange & an intriguing behaviour with sed while replacing the tab character with a space reading from a file. It randomly works sometimes but mostly doesn't work.
Below is what's happening-
<tab> here is the actual literal tab.
user1> cat temp2
1<tab>2<tab>3 4... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Deepak.Dhami
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello all. This is my first post/question on this site.
I’m a new Systems Analyst with previous experience with BASH. Although now I'm using AIX, and I’m trying to get a feel for the Korn shell (for those of you that don’t know AIX only uses the KORN shell).
I hope I put this into the correct... (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: sydox
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Guys, please help! I am currently using an AIX server however whenever I tried to use the typeset -F3, the variable is resulting with a "#".
In the given example below, I declared x to be a decimal holding 3 decimal places = 1.455. However whenever I tried to echo the $x, the resulting value... (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: zzavilz
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5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi all,
Can someone point me in the right direction for a manual on the various statement options for 'if'. Basically I have a piece of code which says:
if ]
and I wondered what the -f was. I know the '!' means not equal..
As usual any help much appreciated.. (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: Grueben
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi
Don't know if this is a dummy question, but let's give it a try.
I yesterday had a problem with undefined behaviour in the sort shell command (I'm using bash), leading to different sort orders without apparent reasons. I resolved this by typing
export LC_ALL="C"
export LC_COLLATE="C"... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: jossojjos
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
In a Korn shell script I have,
cat ../header | sed -e 's/flag1/$cnumb/g' > header.txt
The header is short
{{Company flag1}}
But the result in header.txt is
{{Company $cnumb}}
The value of $cnumb is 120. I am trying to get the value of $cnumb into the header.
I have tried /'$cnumb'/g,... (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: jcarrott
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
I am a bit puzzled by the way my shell treats spaces in filenames.
An example will be way clearer than any explanation I can make:
$ ls test\ file\ with\ spaces
test file with spaces
$ var="test\ file\ with\ spaces"
$ echo $var
test\ file\ with\ spaces
$ ls $var
ls: cannot... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: SDelroen
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9. AIX
Ho do I find out the verion of the Kron shell on my client`s system ?
There is no one to ask. They are not knowledged enough (hard to believe but yes).
Also, on that AIX 4.2, I am trying to figure out how to do a grep using a search patter like below but does not seam to work. The '*' do... (11 Replies)
Discussion started by: Browser_ice
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
hello
whats the difference between excuting a shell script as
a)sh myscript.sh
b). ./myscript.sh
i noticed that my shell script works fine when i run it as . ./myscript
.sh but fails when i run it as sh myscript.sh could anybody explain why.
the shell script is very simple
... (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: xiamin
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