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1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I'm passing a variable to a scrpit which can be 1 to 3 characters long.
How can I force it to be three character long and add spaces to it?
The passed variable is stored in $1 and I would like to be stored in NewName
I tried without success
NewName=$(printf "%*s 3 $1)
So if... (2 Replies)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi guys,
when I take substring of a particular data using this command
var=substr($0,11,10)
it comes with spaces, when I am trying to trim the spaces it is not allowing me to do that.
Can you please help me out on that.
As I have to reverse the output of the variable also.
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a variable
I want to remove the spaces in between.
The output should be
How can this be done
Any help will be appreciated. Thanks in advance (1 Reply)
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Gooday
I have an argument string that contains 15 arguments.
The first 14 arguments are easy to handle because they are separated by spaces
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The last argument is a text that may be empty or contain spaces. So any ideas on how I get the last... (23 Replies)
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello all. I am a newb obviously and a bit stumped on this, so any help gratefully accepted.
The script is extracting metadata from individual mp3 files, then (hopefully will be) sorting them into newly-created subdirectories. I have filtered out the relevant metadata and have the album names... (8 Replies)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
The following code doesn't work because of the space in "My Documents".
Is there a way to set the "sources" variable and then use it in rsync?
I tried escape space (\ ) and quotes, but nothing worked.
#!/bin/sh
sources="'/home/wolf' '/media/sda1/Documents and Settings/Administrator/My... (5 Replies)
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I want to trim the spaces on left side of the variable value. For eg: if it is 4 spaces followed by value, All the spaces on the left should be supressed.
Easy but want it quickly.
Regards,
Shiv@jad (6 Replies)
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
i have to form the header and add fillers(spaces) to it.
I have done something like this. i have added 10 spaces at the end
HDR="AAAABBBBCCNN "
echo $HDR >> file1.dat
but the spaces are not being stored in the file. How to add the spaces. (2 Replies)
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
I have a requirement, in which i have to append some spaces to the variable, and then send it to another function.
I am new to the UNIX shell programming. Ultimately the length of the string should be 40 characters.
exp:
Login = "rallapalli" (length = 10)
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am trying to strip all leading and trailing spaces of a shell variable using either awk or sed or any other utility, however unscuccessful and need your help.
echo $SH_VAR | command_line Syntax.
The SH_VAR contains embedded spaces which needs to be preserved. I need only for the leading and... (6 Replies)
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