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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hey guys. Below is the command I am using to assign "yellow" to the variable yellow. I can seem to echo it out using xargs but when I assign it to yellow and then try to echo it out it prints a blank line.
Below is the command. Your help is highly appreciated!
cut -c 2- color.txt |... (11 Replies)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
I would like to have a result of a cut-command in a variable.
The file "t.dat" has the following content:
Company 001.239879123.OB1X.672W12.STS UNOLD.001.02
My bash-script:
Header=""
Header=$(cut -c1-160 t.dat | head -1)
echo $Header
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3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I want to cut column 1 to 5
echo $somevariable | cut -c 1-5
not working (6 Replies)
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All, I am a newbie to unix.starting my career in unix.need 1 help from you all..pls help..
i am passing a file name "abc_delta" as argument to my script1.sh.
if file name contains "_delta" at last then echo pass else fail.how to fix it.
Note:file name will always contain "_delta" at... (10 Replies)
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
hello,
i need to cut a string in unix but not from file ,, from variable, i searched on special line , and i need a specific data from this line , i get it on variable, how can i cut data that i need ??? merci (2 Replies)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
I need to cut the last seven characters of a variable length variable. The variable may be 7 characters or 70. I need to always be able to grab the last 7 characters. I looked at the cut command but it always seems to want to start at the beginning of a line, not the end and count backwards.
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
ok, heres my problem.
i have saved the last line from a ls -l command into a variable. What i want to do is be able to cut the second character into that (i.e. the r if its there of the - if its not there) and save that value into another variable.
here is the current code i have to save... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: strasner
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I am new to UNIX Scripting. I have been trying to use the CUT command to retrieve part of the header from a file and assign it to a variable. I have tried searching a lot, but I am still unsuccessful.
Sample Header: HJAN BALANCE 20090616
I need to retrieve the date here, which always... (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: ragz_82
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
I wish to cut an input by using the below command but i would want to have the cut position as a variable.
For eg, the position number is 11 now and i wish that this number is being assigned to a variable before putting into the cut function.
Can this be done ?
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Discussion started by: Raynon
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hello All,
I have a string type variable called "FULLSTR".
This variable has a value of "path=/type/source/logs".
I need to cut the characters after the character "=" to end of the string.
Example: the new variable "MATCHSTR" should have value like this...
"/type/source/logs"
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