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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello, new to the forums and to awk. Glad to be here. :o
I want to pass two shell (#!/bin/sh) variables through to awk and use them. They will determine where to start and stop text extraction.
The code with the variables hard-coded in awk works fine; the same code, but with the shell... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: bedtime
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a text file that shows the output of my solar inverters. I want to separate this into sections. overview , device 1 , device 2 , device 3. Each device has different number of lines. but they all have unique starting points. Overview starts with 6 #'s, Devices have 4#'s and their data starts... (6 Replies)
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3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I have a text file as follows:
a.txt
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STEPS=3
STEP_DURATION=100
INTERVAL=60
I want to use these values in a shell script.
How to go about this? (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: akarnya
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have a Report.txt file. Say the contents of this file are :
1 2 3 4 5 7 df v g gf
e r dfkf lsdk dslsdklsdk
Report Start: xxxxxxdad
asdffsdfsdfsdfasfasdffasdf
sadfasdfsadffsfsdf Report End.
sdfasdfasdf
sdfasfdasdfasdfasdfasdf
sadfasdfsdf
I need to grab from Report Start... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: mrskittles99
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
I am really stuck and I'm hoping somone can help. I have a text file that is similar to this:
<--First User-->
<function>account='uid=user1,.......
<--Second User-->
<function>account='uid=user2,.......What I want is to grab the usernames after "uid=" and before the following... (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: mafia910
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
hello!
I am trying to use sed to copy specific set of lines from a file for which the starting and ending line numbers of the lines to be copied are stored in shell variables. How can i copy those lines?
if the input_file is something like this
and if the following is the script
a=2
b=4... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: a_ba
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Quick question...I'm trying to grab the .tif file name from this output from our fax server. What is the best way i can do this in a bash script? I have been looking at regular expressions with bash or using awk but having some trouble. thanks! The only output i want is... (5 Replies)
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have two computers with dynamic IP addresses and am using dyndns so that they are identifiable as the same computer even if their IPs change (we'll call them host1.dyndns.com and host2.dyndns.com). I also have a remote server which I would like to store my computers' IP addresses on. There is a... (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: kerpm
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Just a quick question on grep/egrep.
I am writing a shell script that is looking for certain strings in a text file. It works well and gets exactly what I need.
However, the way the program writes to the text file, it puts the timestamp in a line above the string I am looking for and the path... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: thecoffeeguy
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
I'm new to this forum and am not exactly sure where to post this question, so I'll start here. I'm looking for a command or simple script that will read in a large flat file (contains 2005 data) and will output a new file based on a quarter. Within each row, position 87-90 is a julian... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: bsp18974
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