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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am parsing a log with this format:
06:36:12.230 details here
06:36:12.250 details here
06:36:12.260 details here
continuation here
06:36:12.360 details here
As you can see, some detail info contains one or more "\n" and it breaks my line-oriented parsing.
I need to get those... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: migurus
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
I can not figure out how to capture the $filename variable store by the bash.
#!/bin/bash
# oldest folder stored as variable for analysis, version log created, and quality indicators matched to run
dir=/home/cmccabe/Desktop/NGS/test
find "$dir" -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type d -printf... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: cmccabe
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
I'm working on a new exercise that calls for a script that will take in two arguments on the command line (representing the range of line numbers) and will subsequently print those lines from a a specified file. Command line would look like this: ./lines_script.bash 5 15 <file.txt. The script would... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: ksmarine1980
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi everyone,
I'm echo some text with extended ascii characters as below:
echo -e "Pr\xE9sentation du spectacle" > output
or
echo -e "Présentation du spectacle" > outputIf I open the file created I see this text
Présentation du spectacleThe text is shown correctly in this created file when... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: Ophiuchus
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Why does echo supress line breaks in bash?
I'm working on a script that starts like this:
words=`sort list.txt | uniq`
echo $words | wc -l
I need to number the lines and then do other stuff. I'd use jot, but it's not installed, so I hope I can get seq to do what I want. But first I need to... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: mregine
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am using the echo command to send the output to the file.
I am using the following code:
echo "service started successfully\n" > log
But when I do:
cat log
I get:
service started successfully\n
Instead of a newline after the "successfully"
Why is that and how can I fix it? (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: programAngel
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello everyone...
I need to find out, how to find longest line or possibly lines in several files which are arguments for script. The thing is, that I tried some possibilities before, but nothing worked correctly.
Example
when i use:
awk ' { if ( length > L ) { L=length ;s=$0 } }END{ print... (23 Replies)
Discussion started by: 1tempus1
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello. I'm trying to write a script to take a 5 field file, do some math, and extend it to 9 fields. Problem is, the script keeps wrapping it to two lines, even tho 9 fields, tab separated (even comma separated) doesn't fill the screen. Even if it did, I'm eventually copying it to an excel ... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: JoeNess
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have written a basic fetching script. The script logs into an FTP site, downloads a .zip file, then unzips and moves the files to the necessary folders, then deletes them, etc.
The problem I have is if one of the files no longer exists on the FTP site or another part of the script fails, then... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: daem0n
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Some of my scripts have very long commands that go beyond the horizontal scroll limits of my screen (1024 x 768), even with a very small font. Is there a continuation character (like the option+l "ell") in AppleScript that will let me break up the line?
Right now I just press a hard return to... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: cassj
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