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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
Please somebody help me with this:
I want to check if the files listed in a text file, are found under a directory or not.
For example: the file is list_of_files.txt, which contains inside this rows:
# cat list_of_files
logs
errors
paths
debug
#
I want to check if these... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: arrals_vl
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Is it possible to replace a line of text within a file while it's closed with a single command or a script? Please show me an example or point me to a webpage that shows an example. The file has this line of text:
LoginGraceTime 100
I want to replace it with the following:
... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: wdg74
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Guys,
I know that the below command will cut the 13th field from test.txt file
awk -F"|" '{print $13}' test.txt
The answer would be,
CA
CN
Ohio
If we see the 3 rd one, it has more than 2 characters. So i wanted to check this in if condition and i want to get the output if the 13th... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: AraR87
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
I am very new to this forum and beginner to shell scripting.
I need a shell script to:
Search for a text in XML file à if the same text appears twice in an XML file à output file name
Script should loop thru every xml file of a given folder.
Please help me writing this script.
... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: amardeep001
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I am writing an SH script where I need to open text editor from within the script and wait until the user closed or quit text editor. And then execute consecutive commands.
Here is a very simplified example:
gedit data.txt
# ---- wait until Text editor is exited
echo "Text Editor is... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: dd_u_dev1982
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
HI all,
I want to script where all the server names will be in a text file like
server1
server2
server3 . and the script should take servernames from a text file and perform copy of files if the files are not present on those servers.after which it should take next servername till the end of... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: joseph.dmello
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
I want to make a script which says if a text file is empty or not.
I tried two ways of making it, but I have problems with both of them.
Now I think that the better way is the ls -s solution (considering that an empty text file has a 0 weight, because "cat file.txt" fails when file is... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: Link_
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi Everyone,
Can someone please show me how to create a script that will search a text file for changes.
For example below is a sample of how the text file would look like,
RLH rlh-1 ALIVE 20:06:05
RLH rlh-7 ALIVE 20:06:05
RLH rlh-3 ALIVE ... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: kumaran21
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9. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
We have a third party tool in UNIX to kick off a 'file copy' job based on a file existance. If a specific file exists in an UNIX directory, another process should start copy the file into another system for further processing. The issue is, the copy job is starting as soon as the file exists in... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: kslakshm
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I am writing a script that periodically reads in data from a text file. The only issue is that, that text file is periodically updated (appended to) by another script. I am using perl in UNIX environment. How can I check if that text file is being accessed, so I can wait until it is no longer being... (6 Replies)
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