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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
hi, sorry if this seems trivial.
i have a file url.txt which consists of a list of urls (it was supposed to be my wget -i file). however, since the server from which i am trying to download uses redirect, wget dows not remeber the filename of ther original url will save to a file name which is... (3 Replies)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello, I'm trying to do a substitution in vi. which adds a field for the year to a line.
If the line doesnt include a year, it should still add a field (although empty)
the fields are:
Country:number:number:name(and sometimes year):place
this is a desired in and output:
Sweden:55:32:John... (2 Replies)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
History: large open source PHP project, school management program. Comprises about 200 scripts. Had another developer for awhile, and he wanted a version in German, so he edited all the scripts and replaced text that would show up in the browser with variables (i.e. instead of "Click Here",... (7 Replies)
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
How do i substitute ' with space in a file using sed or awk
i am getting the following two scenarios
1) xyz'd with xyz d
if i use
sed 's/xyz\\\'d/xy z/g'
it is taking ' after \ as closing expr for substitution
2) xyz';d with xyz d
please advice (8 Replies)
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5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hello, I have a file with 10,000+ records which look like this:
Image3992170.tif 4/21/200811:42:09AM 3,373.13KB
Image3993265.tif 4/11/20087:17:58PM 2,369.72KB
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
All,
I have this text document that contains a listing(See below).
What i would like to ask is how i could extract just the information i need which is the files name (CWS*****.***.gz)
If anyone has any suggestions i would be very grateful. I am sure its relatively simple but i just... (6 Replies)
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
What is the actual difference between these two? Why the following code works for process substitution and fails for command substitution?
while IFS= read -r line; do echo $line; done < <(cat file)executes successfully and display the contents of the file
But,
while IFS='\n' read -r... (3 Replies)
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
In a file I want to globally change a "|" charater by a new line character.
I am using the command
1,$s/\|/??/g
Can anybody say what should I put in place of ?? in the above command? (3 Replies)
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am trying to substituted a variable to a file using sed. However, the value of that variable is not being substituted. Here is an example of my code.
lf='
'
v_whole="${1} ${2} ${3} $lf"
cp ${IPPDIR}/ctl/fax_sub_text_a.${4}.${5}.txt... (1 Reply)
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
The auditors have nailed us for world writeable files....
Apparently in years gone by, quite a number of our kornshell scripts have had:
umask 000 put in the script.
We have been able to turn off world writeable for existing dirs & files, but as these scripts run, new files keep getting... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: kornshellmaven
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