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1. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
I want to extract data from a ASCII file that looks like the one provided here (see input.txt). For this purpose I used sed commands. I want to chain the sed commands into a script that I can call with custom variables, instead of having to run it multiple times (Need to run the code for 30*24 =... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: learningtocode
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have made a snake game on below bash version. But it is not backward compatible. Can someone suggest a version which is most commonly used and
is backward compatible so that i can change my code and share again?
I have attached the game script. If someone can run it please also suggest... (5 Replies)
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3. Debian
Hi Guys
I have another problem I'm trying to solve and hope that some one can help me here.
This is the scenario:
I have a file and I want to add a line on the 3rd line of the file using a bash script. but instead its adding the the bash variable $WEBSITE.
Below is the bash script I'm... (6 Replies)
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi friends,
I have two files - input and commands
I want to read the input and replace a value in it with the contents in commands.
My script is like this.
Instead of printing the value in the commands file, it is simply printing $cmd in the output file.
Any pointers are highly... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: jacobs.smith
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello everyone I'm doing a program in bash and wanted to know how can I do to delete document lines the words not ending in S with SED, ie, show only those ending with the letter S.
I probe with:
sed -e /$.*/d "$file" | more
to delete all lines NOT ending in S but not work!... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: adiegorpc
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I need to escape slashes in my text, so I use this line:
search_string=`echo $var | sed 's@/@\\\/@g'`I expect that to replace a slash with a backslash followed by a slash. That works nicely, but it has a problematic side-effect. If there are two spaces in the var it replaces them with... (3 Replies)
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am trying to execute a script with sed that works well in ksh(Linux) however in bash(solaris 8) though it does not give any errors the output file becomes 0 byte.
header of the script:
ksh:2$ head news.ksh
#!/bin/ksh... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: acharania2011
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
In bash, I can match the ' character in a substition involving the line ending symbol $, easily.
In tcsh I ran into a problem.
Code:
sed "s/$/'/g" filename
sed "s/$/'/g" < filename
sed -e "s/$/'/g" filename
Unmatched '.
Where can I find out why this is the case? (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: uiop44
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi, I'm new at bash scripting -- can anyone here help me about the sed command?
I need to be able to edit and or delete a text from an outside file ie file.txt -- I'm passing a variable and not a string
I was thinking of something like
echo -n "What do you want to edit?: "
read edit
sed... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: Imajean
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all-
I've been fooling with this for a few days, but I'm rather new at this...
I have a bash variable containing a long string of various characters, for instance:
JUNK=this that the other xyz 1234 56 789
I don't know what "xyz" actually is, but I know that:
START=he other
and ... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: rev66
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