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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
The following command to replace text in place in multiple files in a directory is tripping up on filename spaces (Windows environment). I really don't know Perl.
find '\\server\directory' | xargs perl -pi -e 's/textA/textB/g'Mike (2 Replies)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello!
I have one problem with my bash script - I would like to be able to read white space characters from stdin (for example single " ") - can I acomplish that somehow? I need to read only one character at the time, so I use read -s -n 1 var but it doesn't work for whitespaces apparently.
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I am having problem in deleting the leading spaces:-
cat x.csv
baseball,NULL,8798765,Most played
baseball,NULL,8928192,Most played
baseball,NULL,5678945,Most played
cricket,NOTNULL,125782,Usually played
cricket,NOTNULL,678921,Usually played
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello, I'm a computer science major and I'm having problems dealing with file names with spaces in them. Particularly I'm saving a file name in a variable and then using the variable in a compare function i.e.
a='te xt.txt'
b='file2.txt'
cmp $a $b
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello dear community!
I've recently written a BASH function for auto completion of options. It works like following: if a user types a command and then an argument to this command which starts with "^-" and then presses TAB, then 'user_command --help (or -h)' is invoked and possible options are... (0 Replies)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
What's the best way to find all files under a directory - including ones with space - in order to apply a command to each of them. For instance I want get a list of files under a directory and generate a checksum for each file.
Here's the csh script:
#!/bin/csh
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
Can anybody suggest me how to combine two strings with two or more white spaces and assign it to a variable?
E.g.
first=HAI
second=HELLO
third="$first $second" # appending strings with more than one white spaces
echo $third
this would print
HAI HELLO
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
hi all...
i have the next question:
i have a flat file with a lot of records (lines). Each record has 10 fields, which are separated by pipe (|). My problem is what sometimes, in the first record, there are white spaces (no values, nothing) in the beginning of the record, like this:
ws ws... (2 Replies)
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
How would I delete white spaces in a specified file?
Also, I'd like to know what command I would use to take something off a regular expression, and put it onto another.
ie.
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expression1 <take_off>
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expression2 (put here)
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Any help would be great, thanks! (10 Replies)
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UNIXSERVER(1) General Commands Manual UNIXSERVER(1)
NAME
unixserver - UNIX domain socket server
SYNOPSIS
unixserver [options] socket program
DESCRIPTION
Unixserver is UNIX domain socket server that conform to UCSPI, the UNIX Client-Server Program Interface.
OPTIONS
-q Quiet. Do not print any messages.
-Q (default) Print error messages.
-v Verbose. Print error and status messages.
-d Do not delete the socket file on exit.
-D (default) Delete the socket file on exit.
-u UID Change user id to UID after creating socket.
-g GID Change group id to GID after creating socket.
-U Same as '-u $UID -g $GID'.
-o UID Make the socket owned by UID.
-r GID Make the socket group owned by GID.
-O Same as '-o $SOCKET_UID -r $SOCKET_GID'.
-p PERM
Set the permissions on the created socket (in octal). Note: this option, if set, overrides the mask below. (defaults to 0666 minus
umask)
-m MASK
Set umask to MASK (in octal) before creating socket. (defaults to 0, previous value is restored afterwards)
-c N Do not handle more than N simultaneous connections. (default 10)
-b N Allow a backlog of N connections.
-B BANNER
Write BANNER to the client immediately after connecting.
SEE ALSO
unixclient(1), unixcat(1) http://cr.yp.to/proto/ucspi.txt
AUTHOR
ucspi-unix package was written by Bruce Guenter <bruceg@em.ca>
This manual page was originally written by Tomas Kuliavas <tokul@bigfoot.com> for the Debian GNU/Linux system, but may be used elsewhere
under the GPL.
UNIXSERVER(1)