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1. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
Below is my ksh shell script where I need to check if variable fileprops is a subset of $1 argument.
echo "FILE PROPERTY: $fileprops"
echo "PARAMETER3: $1"
if ; then
echo "We are Good. $line FILE is found to be INTACT !! "
else
echo... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: mohtashims
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi. I have a piece of code that reads and parses command line options. I'd like to alter it slightly to read from a string (that's set elsewhere in the script) rather than directly from the command line (arg). Can somebody show me how to do this? Many thanks.
My code is as follows:
typeset... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: user052009
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi
The following code works when reading the arguments from the command line but fails when I try to read from a string. So this works
while ; do
case $1 in
-dbversion) if '`" ]; then { echo "ERROR: missing value for '$1' (seen '$2')"; usage; exit 1; } else { shift;... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: user052009
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi guys,
been scratching round the forums and my mountain of resources.
Maybe I havn't read deep enough
My question is not how sed edits a stream and outputs it to a file, rather something like this below:
I have a .txt with some text in it :rolleyes:
abc:123:xyz
123:abc:987... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: the0nion
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am passing a list of strings $list and want to remove all entries with --shift=number, --sort=number/number/..., --group=number/number/... Also are removed whether upper or lower case letters are used
For example the following will all be deleted from the list
--shift=12
--shift=2324... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: kristinu
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all, I have a requirement where I am taking the first argument as argument name and storing the second argument in argument name as value.
Thanks to ppl here, i learnt to do it.:p
while ( $1 != "" )
set arg = $1
shift
set val = "$1"
echo "set... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: animesharma
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Let's say I want to print the arguments $4 till $#, how can I do this?
$# contains the number of arguments
$@ contain all the arguments as string
What i need is something like
for i in $4_till_$#; do
#do something with $i
convert $i ~/$output
done
The first 3 arguments are used as options... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: hakermania
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
The following bash script does not work because the java/groovy code always thinks there are four arguments even if there are only 1 or 2. As you can see from my hideous backslashes, I am using cygwin bash on windows.
export... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: siegfried
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello, I was wondering if it were possible to call arguments passed to a script using a variable.
For example:
sh script.sh yes no good bad
x=$#
while
do
echo (last argument, then second last etc until first argument)
let x=($x-1)
done
should print out
bad
good
no (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: VanK
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
how can I join given arguments (not starting from the first one) to form one string, each argument separated by a space. For example, out of 5 given arguments, I'll like to start joining from the 3rd to the last. In python there exists something like ' '.join(sys.argv) and it starts joining... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: plhelpme
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