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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi.
I'm trying to do a "simple" thing.
grep -rls grepped_exp path | xgs
where xgs is an alias to something like:
xargs gvim -o -c ":g/grepped_exp"
now the problem is that I want to pass the "grepped_exp" to the piped alias.
I was able to do something like what I want without the... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: hagaysp
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello All,
I would like to ask help from you on how to pass variable value from a function that has been called inside the function. I have created below and
put the variables in " ". Is there another way I can do this? Thank you in advance.
readtasklist() {
while read -r mod ver... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: aderamos12
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am trying to turn this into an alias with no luck. I would then like to put the alias into my bashrc file. I know awk is very picky about quotes. I have tried every version of quotes, single quotes, double quotes, and backslashes that I can think of.
VAR=$(xrandr | awk '$2=="connected"{s=$1}... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: cokedude
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4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi all,
I have a series of directories which i open regularly. I want create an alias so that i can pass the direcotry name to alias and then this commands makes Cd to the path i need. COuld you please help on how to create an alias
ex of what i am trying but couldn't succeeded
#alias... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: firestar
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5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I have a few aliases set up on AIX servers in my .kshrc file. Some of them contain multiple commands that are piped together.
A simple example would be something like this:
# alias to list directory contents as root and sort by size.
alias lss='sudo ls -l | sort -nbk5'
When I call... (5 Replies)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
HI ,I am a new in Bash and ,I dont know how to pass a second parameter to this fuction,if the name of the passed argument is num works fine,but if I try to pass secondNum,dont recognized it
thanks
function check()
{
if(($(echo ${#num}) == 0 ))
then
echo No arguments passed.Try... (6 Replies)
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I have some folders with this structure:
/data/me/a123xxx
Where "xxx" is some changing series of letters, and "123" changes so folders might look like: /data/me/a123xxx
/data/me/a234ysd
/data/me/a534sds etc. The numbers are what matter to me (they identify the folder), so I created an... (7 Replies)
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
In Unix (AIX/LINUX) how do we create a alias for a UNIX shell function?
Please help me with that.
Thanks!! (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: neeto
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi ,
I have three funcions f1, f2 and f3 .
f1 calls f2 and f2 calls f3 .
I have a global variable "period" which i want to pass to f3 .
Can i pass the variable directly in the definition of f3 ?
Pls help .
sars (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: sars
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I want to have an alias for the command
fold -78 filename | lp
How do I set my alias so that the argument passed is filename ??
alias lp='fold -78 | lp'
then
lp filename
wont work cuase this is
fold -78 | lp filename (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: pmcg
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