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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi, I need some help with this:
I'm making a script which does a couple of things with image files. The script is supposed to echo the number of each image it is processing like this:
Processing image1.jpgThe problem is with images with very long filenames, so I want to know how to limit the... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: Shadow_Reaper
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2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hey guys and gals,
Working on a script to limit the reoccurrance of characters in a line.
sed "/\(.\).*\1/d" -i file.txt
sed "/\(.\).*\1.*\1/d" -i file.txt
sed "/\(.\).*\1.*\1.*1/d" -i file.txt
..
To limit character reoccurance with 1x, 2x, 3x etc.
However I would like to be able to... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: TAPE
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a huge file and I want to select first 10 charcters and last 2 characters of everyline and than will filter the unique line.
I know, it must be easy bt I am new to unix scripting:)
Ex.
I have file as below and need to e3kbaird and last 2 characters. and than unique records.
... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: Sanjeev Yadav
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4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I have a script that outputs the weather on two lines.
If possibly I would like to set a character limit on them
Currently it outputs something like
but I would like to limit the lines so appends an ellipsis if nescessary:
This is the script
#! /bin/bash
curl -s --connect-timeout... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Light_
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5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
How to bring all characters in one line in unix/solaris ?
Eg :
If it is
a
b
c
then it should show
abc (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: mahen1naik
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
In the vi editor, there seems to be some limit on the number of characters could be allowed in single line. I tried a line with characters up to 1880. It worked. But when i tried with something of 5000 characters, it doesnt work. Any suggestions.
Thanks in advance! (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: nram_krishna@ya
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7. HP-UX
Hello everyone.
I am trying to set up a monitor based on a "top" command statistic as follows:
top -bc -n1 > output.txt
I've put this command into a small script which is called by a cron... but there is something strange happening: the cron is limiting the output to output.txt to 80... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: MartinF
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8. AIX
Hi,
I'm using AIX version 5.3 currently. I'm trying to create a user id, e.g. andyleong, which the system prompted the length is too long.
1. I would like to know is that the length of user id is limited to maximum 8 characters for AIX.
2. Is it apply to all versions of AIX?
If no... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: meihua_t
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Why unix system V has a filename size limit of 14 characters.How other versions of Unix got around this problem.Can anybody help? (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: admirer
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