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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
This is on a CentOS box, I have two scripts that need to run in order.
I want to write a shell script that calls the first script, lets it run and then terminates it after a certain number of hours (that I specify of course), and then calls the second script (they can't run simultaneously) which... (3 Replies)
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2. Homework & Coursework Questions
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1. The problem statement, all variables and given/known data: It's a shell script using a looping logic, trap, tput, if, while. Most of the scripts in this book aren't written... (2 Replies)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello everyone,
I'm struggling with this command:
awk '!/^\+/{ORS=FS}/^\+/{ORS=RS}1' file1 > file2
What I want to do is to move any line that starts with the + sign 1 up, so its the continuation of the previous.
The above command is messing the whole output, can you please let me know... (8 Replies)
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
example:
comment Now_TB.table column errac is for error messages
1 - first
2 - second
3 -third ;
in this example I need to be able to grab the comment as first word and ; as the last word and it might span a few lines. I need it to be put all in one line without line breaks so I can... (4 Replies)
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5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi
I am a newbie to unix. I have a current script that reads a directory for excel files and renames the files. There is a problem now because some of the files have spaces. If I put quotes on the file, it will work but I dont know how to read all the files with quotes.
Variables
$1 =... (6 Replies)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am using the while-loop to read a file.
The file has lines with null-terminated strings (words, actually.)
What I have by that reading - just a first word up to '\0'!
I need to have whole string up to 'new line' - (LF, 10#10, 16#A)
What I am doing wrong?
#make file 'grb' with... (6 Replies)
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a script which read a file it does
while read -r line, then i echo line out
echo "$line"
Problem is the echo does not echo space and tabs at the end of each line. How do i get the end of line space as well (6 Replies)
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I have a problem where I need to append few spaces(say 10 spaces) for each line in a file whose length is say(100 chars) and others leave as it is.
I tried to find the length of each line and then if the length is say 100 chars then tried to write those lines into another file and use a sed... (17 Replies)
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I need a command in UNIX KSH below is the description...
MAPPING DESCRIPTION ="Test Mapping for the calid inputs" ISVALID ="YES" NAME ="m_test_xml" OBJECTVERSION ="1" VERSIONNUMBER ="1"
unix ksh command to read the DESCRIPTION and write to a file
Test Mapping for the calid inputs... (3 Replies)
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi
The following command read a string from the keyboard & echo it back.
$ read S;echo "$S"
ABCD
ABCD
As you see, the input has space. while it echo back the spaces are removed. Is there a way to keep the input intact and not removing any spaces? Also, the number of spaces may vary.
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Discussion started by: azmathshaikh
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