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1. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
Greetings. I am working in a Linux environment and am trying to figure out a way to rename files in a directory by appending a unique strings that appears within a certain area in those files. I have gotten as far as identifying what that particular unique string is with a command like the... (10 Replies)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
How to search for a string in all the files irrespective of directory.
If I use grep -i 'hello' *.*
It will search for the string hello in the files of current directory.
But I want to check for the string hello in the files of all the directories.
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hii,
Could someone help me to append string to the starting of all the filenames inside a directory but it should exclude .zip files and subdirectories.
Eg.
file1: test1.log
file2: test2.log
file3 test.zip
After running the script
file1: string_test1.log
file2: string_test2.log
file3:... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: Ravi Kishore
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
I want to append file with a string but before doing that i want to check if this string already exist in that file.I tried with grep on Solaris 10 but unsuccessful.Man pages from grep seems to suggest if the string is found command status will be 0 and if not 1.But i am not finding it.May be i... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: sahil_shine
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
I have some data in the form of
adc|nvhs|nahssn|njadnk|nkfds
in the above data i need to write a script so thet it will append "|||" to the third occurnace in the string ..... the outout should look like
adc|nvhs|nahssn||||njadnk|nkfds
Thanks,
Firestar. (6 Replies)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi ,
I have below file with 13 columns. I need 2-13 columns seperated by comma and I want to append each row with a string "INSERT INTO xxx" in the begining as 1st column and then a variable "$node" and then $2,$3,$4,$5,$6,$7,$8,$9,$10,$11,$12,$13 and at the end another string " ; COMMIT;"
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi Guys,
I want to search the content of all the files (of a particular type like .txt)
in a directory for a specific string pattern. Can anyone help me?
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Discussion started by: mwrg
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello Friends,
I've been trying to write a script which finds a string and change it with another string. For this i want to search all files (with its arguments) under a spesific directory and its subdirectories.
For example lets assume i want to replace an IP= 192.168.0.4 with another... (4 Replies)
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
This might be a question that has an easy solution but im new to unix. I have a project where I have to append files that are in a directory and then read those files out.
can anyone help me this this problem???
thanks in advance,
TDS (1 Reply)
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I need to append string "Hi" to the beginning of the lines containing some specific string. How can I achieve that?
Please help.
Malay (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: malaymaru
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