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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
Anyone can help using SED searches a character string for a specified delimiter character, and returns a leading or trailing space/blank.
Text file :
"1"|"ExternalClassDEA519CF5"|"Art1"
"2"|"ExternalClass563EA516C"|"Art3"
"3"|"ExternalClass305ED16B8"|"Art9"
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Discussion started by: fspalero
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
I'm having a little trouble returning a value from a function or calling it, I'm not quite sure.
I'm calling the function here
function region_lookup_with_details {
results = $(set_region)
echo $results
}
This is the function I'm calling
function set_region {
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Discussion started by: akechnie
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello All,
I am trying to get the value "node01_mymachine" and disregard the rest of the returned string (command ran*) from myscript.sh
$ myscript.sh GetNodeName
node01_mymachine
Command ran successfully.
If I called from another script like this:
anyprocess=`myscript.sh... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: msetjadi
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I need to return a value from the function. the value will be the output from cat command which uses random fucntion.
#!/bin/ksh
hello()
{
var1=$(`cat /dev/urandom| tr -dc 'a-zA-Z0-9-!%&()*+,-/:;<=>?_'|fold -w 10 | head -n 1`)
echo "value is" var1
return var1
}
hello
var=$?... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Nandy
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
I need help to store the value returned from the function to one variable and then use that variable.
PREVIOUS_DATE_FUNCTION()
{
date '+%m %d %Y' |
{
read MONTH DAY YEAR
DAY=`expr "$DAY" - 1`
case "$DAY" in
0)
MONTH=`expr "$MONTH" - 1`
case... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: aroragaurav.84
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
I need help figuring out why my script won't work when envoked from web interface. First off, I'm fairly new to Linux and Shell scripting so, my apologies for being ignorant!
So I have a python script that I envoke through a web interface. This script envokes my shell script and... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: arod291
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
hello
I have a file with lines of info separated with "|"
I want to amend the second field of the last line, using AWK
my problem is with geting awk to return the last line
this is what I am using
awk 'END{ print $0 }' myFile
but I get an empty result
I tried the... (13 Replies)
Discussion started by: TasosARISFC
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Sometimes I observe this in gdb:
(gdb) br my_function
Breakpoint .. at 0x...: file ..., line ...
i.e., "my_function" does exist in the current executable.
however, dlsym does not find it:
(gdb) p dlsym(0,"my_function")
$6 = 0
This is a C program; dlsym does find other defined functions and... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: sds
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi
I have a small function which returns a wrong value.
The function tries to make a connection to oracle database and tries to get the open_mode of the database in the variable status.
However when a database is down the value of the status column is set to READWRITE i am not sure why.
I... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: xiamin
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10. Programming
I have a question concerning string functions. I have not been able to locate a function that does what I want, so I fugured I'd ask before I wrote on myself.
Is there a function to which I can pass 2 strings (character string a and character string b) and have it tell me if string b appears... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: jalburger
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