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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Is there a command for sed and awk that will only sort the line with more characters?
#cat file
123
12345
12
asdgjljhhho
bac
ss
Output:
asdgjljhhho
#cat file2
11.2
12345.00
21.222
12345678.10 (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: invinzin21
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have a string wherein i need to replace special characters with backslash and that character.
Ex:
If my string is a=qwerty123@!,
then the new string should be a_new=qwerty123\@\!\,
Thanks (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: temp_user
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
hyper link- abc:8081/xyz/2.5.6/rtyp-2.5.6.jar
Needs to get "rtyp-2.5.6.jar" i.e character after last backslash "/"
how to do this using sed/awk??
help is highly appreciated. (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: kkscm
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Input:
:: gstreamer
:: xine-lib
:: xine-lib-extras
Output should be:
gstreamer xine-lib xine-lib-extras
How can it be done with sed or perl? (12 Replies)
Discussion started by: cola
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a shell script that I have written to be a kind of to-do/notepad that's quickly executable from the command line. However, special characters tend to break it pretty well.
Ie: "notes -a This is an entry." works fine.
"notes -a This is (my) entry." will toss back a bash syntax error on... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: skylersee
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
I have a requirement to read a line from a file with some search string, replace any backslash characters in that line and store in a variable.
Shell script: replace.ksh
#!/bin/bash
file2=input.rtf
line=`grep "Invoice Number" ${file2} | head -1 | sed 's/\\//g'`
echo "start... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: prashas_d
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello everyone:
I have ran into this a few times now where my skills are just not up to snuff when it comes to Unix. So, I came here to find some beard stroking Unix wizard to help me.
Basically, I am using OS X 10.5 in large scale at work and sometimes I have to run some custom reports. ... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: tlarkin
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello All,
I have been searching and trying this for a bit now. Can use some assistance.
Large 5000 line flat file.
bash, rhel5
Input File Sinppet:
Fri Oct 30 09:24:02 EDT 2009 -- 1030
Fri Oct 30 09:26:01 EDT 2009 -- 73
Fri Oct 30 09:28:01 EDT 2009 -- 1220
Fri Oct 30 09:30:01 EDT... (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: abacus
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have the following example string:
today_is_a_good_day.txt
The character "_" inside the string can sometimes be more or less. The solution for every string equal the count of "_" should be alway the rest after the last underline character.
Result: day.txt
I want to use awk... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: climber
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
i have this script that searches for a pattern.
However it fails if the pattern includes some
special characters. So far, it fails with the
following strings:
1. -Cr
2. $Mj
3. H'412
would a sed or awk be more effective?
i don't want the users to put the (\)
during the search (they... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: apalex
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