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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
As I stated in a previous thread - I'm a newbie to Unix/Linux and programming. I'm trying to learn the basics on my own using a couple books and the exercises provided inside.
I've reached an exercise that has me stumped. I need to write a bash script that will will read in a file and print the... (11 Replies)
Discussion started by: ksmarine1980
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
I would like to remove comments from a bash script. In addition, I would like to remove lines that consist of only white spaces, and to remove blank lines.
#!/bin/bash
perl -pe 's/ *#.*$//g' $1 | grep -v ^]*$ | perl -pe 's/ +/ /g' > $2
#
# $1 INFILE
# $2 OUTFILE
The above code... (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: LessNux
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
I must write a script to change all C++ like comments:
// this is a comment
to this one
/* this is a comment */
How to do it by sed? With file:
#include <cstdio>
using namespace std; //one
// two
int main() {
printf("Example"); // three
}//four
the result should be: (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: black_hawk
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
I want to write a script where it search for text in all the files in a directory ... this direcotry includes sub_directory which also contains list of files ...
The for loop must pass by the list of files in directory and enters the subdiectory and list all its files....
Please i need... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: ahmedwaelkord
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a Bash script where, in a loop, I access several urls.
Sometimes, if an url is not available, lynx hangs, and the script does not continue. How can I time out the lynx request when it takes more than, 10 Seconds, but continue with the other jobs...
For some reason lynx does not care... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: lowmaster
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Suppose i have a file like this:
#bla bla
#bla bla bla bla bla
Bla
BLA
BLA BLA #bla bla
....
....
how can i remove all comments from every line,even if they are behind commands or strngs that are not comments?
any idea how i could do that using awk? (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: bashuser2
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