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1. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
Hello,
I am creating a file with all the source folders included in my git branch, when i grep for the used source, i found source included as relative path instead of absolute path, how can convert relative path to absolute path without changing directory to that folder and using readlink -f ? ... (4 Replies)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I m new to shell scripting. I did some research and understand that unix treats while and other loops as new shell and hence the variable loose its value outside of the loop.
I found solution for integer variable but in mycase this is a string variable.
here variable loc is a... (6 Replies)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All
I am trying to run sed command to remove first 2 charcaters from a file on Multiple Files in my directory and what to retain the same file name .
I want to know how to retain the same file name but with changes .
Can some one please let me know how to proceed with this .
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
I have a requirement where there are 2 files saved on unix directory with names anil_111 and anil_222. I just have to retain the latest file and delete the old file from the directory.
Please help me with the shell script to perform this.
Thanks,
Anil (7 Replies)
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello Forum.
I have the following files in one directory:
abc_july01_2013.txt
abc_july02_2013.txt
abc_july03_2013.txt
abc_july04_2013.txt
abc_july05_2013.txt
abc_july06_2013.txt
abc_july07_2013.txt
abc_july08_2013.txt
If I want to be able to keep the last 5 versions of the file and... (4 Replies)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
There's an input file(input.txt) which has the following details :
CBA
BA
<Please note the second record has a LEADING WHITESPACE which is VALID>
I am using the following code to read the content of the said file line by line:
while read p ; do
echo "$p"
done < input.txt
This is the... (1 Reply)
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have a file abcd.txt which has contents in the form of full path file names i.e.
$home> vi abcd.txt
/a/b/c/r1.txt
/q/w/e/r2.txt
/z/x/c/r3.txt
Now I want to retrieve only the directory path name for each row
i.e
/a/b/c/
/q/w/e/
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8. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
While copying, how we can retain the same date for new file as it was on the old file. (1 Reply)
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I have a file with about 60 lines of path:
app-defaults/boxXYZ.......
I want to change this to /my/path/goes/here/app-defaults/boxXYZ, but of course vi doesn't like the regualr :s/old/new/ command.
Is there any other quick way to do this?
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
Bourne shell
Solaris
I'm trying to set a flag to perform an action only when data is found. So I initialize the flag with:
X=0
Then I read the data:
if ; then
while read a b c
do
X=1
done < ${inputFile}
fi
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