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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I need all your help to achieve the below functionality.
I have a big 2 GB file and inside the file we need to identify, whether having a comma(,) or pipe(|) or tab or fixed position or semicolon(;) delimiter. If any of those delimiter found need to replace the file with pipe(|)... (1 Reply)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
I am a beginner in this and trying to write a shell script in linux which will :
1. Ask for a file name and check if its exists.
2. If file exists only then it will ask for the new target folder, after entering target folder name it will check if it exists.
3. If target folder... (3 Replies)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Can some one please help me with the syntax in shell script for the below :
if $var1 exists in ('val1','val2','val3')
I want to execute a set of commands if the value of var1 variable matches any one of the given string values. Please let me know if there are any other option to go by.
... (10 Replies)
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
Using sh/csh, unfortunately shell scripts are not my strong suit.
Trying to write a script that gets called from a program for pre-processing.
The program passes individual components of a UNC (//server/path1/path2/filename).
Thus the unc path of: //server/path1/path2/filename, is... (7 Replies)
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
What is the simplest way to setting a variable to $1 if it exists ?
If I go with name=${"$1":-abc}, bash complains "bad substitution",
So I use
name="$1"
name=${name:-abc}
But is there a way to fix this "bad substitution" ?
Thanks! (2 Replies)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I'm new to UNIX, at least shell programming and am having trouble figuring out a problem i'm having. In one section in my nested if statement, i want the program to test if the file does not exist, based on an argument supplied at the command line by the user. What i have is
elif ; then... (3 Replies)
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
working on AIX 5.3.
Requirement is:
Shell script in ksh to check if any file exists in 4 folders as below:
1. /FILE/INB/INT1
2. /FILE/INB/INT2
3. /FILE/INB/INT3
4. /FILE/INB/INT4
Thanks a lot for your time!
a1_win. (3 Replies)
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have tried few examples in the internet but all of them are different and none worked. I need to check if a file exists in a directory if it does not then exit . here is what I have for now
$filename ="/usr/local/net/var/lib/directoryservice/sync.disable"
if ;
then
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Can I determine when the particular file was created, in korn-shell. Can please someone help me. If possible please mail the solution to me.
my mail id: bharat.surana@gmail.com (1 Reply)
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Im trying to code some logic into a test script to test for the existence of a file before recreating it. Im using the following line to test for this:
if -r test.txt;
However I get the error message
./testScript.sh: -r: not found
Having read through the man pages im still not clear whats... (2 Replies)
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