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1. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
I'm new with 'sed' and for sure something still I don't understand yet with it. If you see my output on ">Output..." portion, the new directory still on "source_dir" instead of "dest_dir". You may disregard for the "tar" part, this is just a test script, just for me to understand 'sed' using the... (3 Replies)
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2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I have to use the vaious kind of filters based on various fields in the input file like - count occurence of cases where "TRK-GRP" = 169 or like "ADDR-DIG" = 80080.
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
When passing parameters to a sheel script, the parameters are referenced by their positions such as $1 for first parameter, $2 for second parameter. these positional values can only have values ranging from $0-$9 (0,1,2,3...9).
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4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Can someone tell me in more layman's terms what positional parameters are and give a good example? My book again is confusing me. :confused: (1 Reply)
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi .
I am new to Unix. So i have a tough time.
we are using Korn Shell. I have a scenario where i have three files namely
xxx01,xxx02,xxx03. Now when i write ls xxx*|wc -l output is 3. But then i write `ls $1|wc -l` and pass xxx* as positional parameter (sh yyy.sh xxx*)
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I am new to Unix. So i have a tough time.
we are using Korn Shell. I have a scenario where i have three files namely
xxx01,xxx02,xxx03. Now when i write ls xxx*|wc -l output is 3. But then i write `ls $1|wc -l` and pass xxx* as positional parameter (sh yyy.sh xxx*)
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
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I've a large datafile, I've to sort the entire records of this file based on the positions. For ex:
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I need to get file names from commandline arguments, it may be any no of arguements, Using for loop i got but how do i display it, bcoz $i will give the number i is assigned $$i is not working either $($i), i need the names of the files got in the arguement (2 Replies)
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hello,
I am using the Bourne shell.
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