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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
When I specify a directory by name the leading ./ is not shown:
$ find somedir/
somedir/a.bin
somedir/target/out.binBut when I specify current dir it adds the ./ to the beginning of each result:
$ find . | grep somedir
./somedir/a.bin
./somedir/target/out.binIs there any particular reason why... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Tribe
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
if the last line of an output contains a certain string 'FAILED', i want to print 200 lines from the output.
here's where I got stuck:
process blah blah blah | awk '{if ($0 ~ /FAILED/) y=x "\n" $0; x=$0};END{print y}'
the above only prints the last 2 lines, and it also searches the... (19 Replies)
Discussion started by: SkySmart
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
my current code:
varA=$(tail -200 /var/log/data.txt | egrep -c "Capital|capitol")
varB=$(tail -200 /var/log/data.txt | egrep -c "State|Country")
varC=$(tail -200 /var/log/data.txt | egrep -c "City|Town")
I want to do this a different way. something like:
AllVars=$(echo $(tail -200... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: SkySmart
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
tail -f /var/log/syslog | egrep -c FATAL
is there a way to do the above and actually have the number of lines matching the pattern increment as it is logged to the log file?
for instance, when you invoke a command like the one i just posted, you'll not get the total lines unless you do... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: SkySmart
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
I got stuck in problem i need to remove slash but it is not working.
current output
/usr/sbin/httpd
expected output
usr sbin httpd (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: learnbash
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi.
I have a log file which gets updated by a java process and it uses ASCII STX and ETX characters (i.e CTRL-B and CTRL-C characters) to demarcate each XML message logged.
so the format of the file is something like
STX XML_MESSAGE1
..
..
ETX STX XML_MESSAGE2
..
..
ETX
each XML... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: gregoryp
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a log file which contains data like this
This log file is updated twice a day at 7am and 6pm,
I want a script(which i will make run at 7:10am and 6:10pm) which should fetch only the last appended lines since last update..
I mean.. if i execute the script at 7.10am 3/3/2010
it... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: user__user3110
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
I need to know way of inserting backward slash before forward slash. My problem is that i need to supply directory path as an argument while invoking cshell script. This argument is further used in script (i.e. sed is used to insert this path in some file). So i need to place \ in front... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: sarbjit
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9. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Hi,
I have a path like this c:\test\sample\programs, i need to change thiis to c:\\test\\sample\\programs. How to perform this? I tried tr command but it didn't help me.
Thanks
Vijayan (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: mvictorvijayan
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi
I'd like to achieve the ff functionality;
tail -f log | grep keyword ...... and then perform a function.
That is, I like to tail a log and when a certain keyword appears I then want my script to play an audio file for example.
Any ideas??
Cheers
M (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: squeakywheel
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