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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am trying to write a BASH script that will prompt a user to enter a number of days, then calculate the date.
My problem is the date command uses single or double quotes. For Example..
date -d "7 days"
Here is an example of some same code I am trying to work through.
echo "when do you... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: javajockey
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have got a file comp_data containing the below data :
38232836|9302392|49
39203827|8203203,3933203|52
72832788|567,3245,2434324|100
This file can have many rows like shown above. I want the values separated by "," in second column(taking "|" as delimiter) to be in quotes. These... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: msabhi
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am writing a bash script to automate the installation of web environment on a base install of Fedora. And I'm at the limit of my last nerve and my bash skills. My brain is screaming at me: "Give up and use perl", but I am trying to stick to bash since the script will modify the perl environment... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: lbe
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
i have a file that looks like:
one:two:three:four:five
six:seven:eight:nine:ten
and i'd like to quote the fourth column, getting:
one:two:three:"four":five
six:seven:eight:"nine":ten
i was thinking something like:
awk 'BEGIN{FS=":"}{print $1 FS $2 FS $3 FS \"$4\" FS $5}'... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: Dedalus
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
I can do this on the command line:
sqsh -S 192.168.x.x -o tmp -U user -P fakepass -D horizon -C "\
select second_id
from borrower
where btype like '%wsd%'
"
I can also just leave the SQL at the end intact on one line ....
... However, when I throw this in a script like:
$SQSH -o... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: Bubnoff
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have this data how do i add ' ' to them like '-AAL00L' , '-BBE4577' , 'ABC'
-AAL00L
-BBE4577
ABC (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: dinjo_jo
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
hi guys, i have a question related to quoting but i am not sure how to formulate it...
lets say we want to simulate the following shell actions
cd ~/project-dir
ctags /home/work/folder1/*.sh /home/work/folder2/*.sh /home/work/folder3/*.sh
so i make the following script
buidtags.sh
... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: aegis
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Can someone explain the following? I can use find on *.pm without quotes, but find on *.pl makes on error, I need quotes for the second version. What's up with that?
$find -name *.pm
./tieProxyStatus/Status.pm
$find -name *.pl
find: paths must precede expression
Usage: find
$find... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: tphyahoo
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have trouble with quotations of the M4 preprocessor.
I want to write a basic makro that removes all spaces and newlines at the end and at the beginning of a string.
I tried this:
define(`TRIM_END', `patsubst(`$1', `\(\\n\| \)*$', `')')
define(`TRIM', `patsubst(`TRIM_END(`$1')',... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: hindman
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi All
In a script, I want a user to enter 4 characters, these can be a mix of letters (uppercase and lowercase) and numbers.
In this example $var represents what the user has entered.
eg $var can be A9xZ, 3DDL, bbHp .........etc
I need to check that the user has only entered characters... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Bab00shka
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