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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
I'm trying to write a basic bash script that takes input you give (what directory, if any, what name, if any ....) and passes the information to find.
I'm trying to just create a string with all variables and then pass it to find. So far I have this extremely simple:
#!/bin/bash -f
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I've been stuck for several days on this. Using grep on a command line, I can use quotes, eg...
grep 'pattern of several words' filename
I want to do this in my bash script. In my script I have captured the several command line arguments (eg arg1 arg2) into a variable:
variable=$@
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Discussion started by: adrian777uk
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a file with
<suit:run date="Trump Tue 06/19/2012 11:41 AM EDT" machine="garg-ln" build="19921" level="beta" release="6.1.5" os="Linux">
Need to find word "build" then
extract build number, which is 19921 also
release number, which is 6.1.5 then
concatenate them to one variable as... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: garg
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4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hello,
Why is this not working in a script?
files="test.fsa"
echo $files
for file in $files
do
if
then
echo "$file does not exist."
fi
run a command
done
I get an error saying (3 Replies)
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi ,I am trying to assign string to variable ,but it doesn't work
Also could you show me different ways to use grep,(I am trying to get the first,second and first column form file,and I am counting the chars)
let name=`grep "$id" product | cut -c6-20` (25 Replies)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
This may be a stupid question, but was wondering if it is possible to make a variable local to a particular script and invisible to an external script that may source the script where it is defined? Thanks as always (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: stevensw
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hello All,
How to concatenate a string to a variable in a script
I'm having a file which is consisting of data and i need to extract the first line of the file and append it to a string.
/tmp/samp.list containg 60000
I like to concatenate it with a string (SS_)
grep -w SS_$(head -1... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: nkamalkishore
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
In a bash script I've set a variable that is the directory name of where an executable lives.
the_dir=`dirname $which myscript`
which equates to something like "/path/to/dir/bin"
I need to cut that down to remove the "bin" so I now have "/path/to/dir/".
This sounds easy but as a... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Witty
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
I need a way to build variable in this manner:
variable_$i
Inside a for loop i need to create it.
where i goes from 1 to 30..
and then i need to print them on screen with echo $variable_$i
which is the best way to do this? (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: sreedivia
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
user_account()
{
set -x
nodename=$1
# set userid to user0
userid="user0"
echo outside:pid $$
cat $MY_DIR/user_accounts | while read line
do
# line="node1 user1"
echo inside do: pid $$ line:$line userid:$userid
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Discussion started by: jasmeet100
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