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1. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
I currently have a loop that reads all .bam files in a directory (wont always be 4 like in this example,
into $id. What I am trying to do, unsucessfully, is create specific new lines in an exsisting command using
each $id. Each new line would be:
--bam ${id} \
Tried
p=$dir... (8 Replies)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
I need to be able to use a sed command as a variable in a bash script. I have the sed command that almost works the way I want it. the command is
sed -n '/inet/,/}/p' config.boot
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inet 192.168.1.245
}
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3. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
In the else of the main if condition .
else
set lnk = $(readlink -f <path> | cut -d '/' -f7)
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if ]
When I run the above on command line , the execution seems to be fine and I get the desired output. But when I try to assign it to a variable within a loop... (12 Replies)
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
Will following set up work in bash script? I've got errors if assigning following binary command to a variable. But on the other hand, COMMAND="ls" works. Any explanation please? How can I assign binary command to a variable COMMAND then I can just call ${COMMAND}?
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello There,
I have been trying to increment the value of variable to 1, 2, 3 etc. but, it displays
1
1+1
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.....
:wall:
Could anyone help out with this?
for i in *.*
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
#!/bin/bash
#...
for i in `ls -c1 /usr/share/applications`
do
name="cat $i | grep ^Name= | cut -d = -f2"
echo $name
#...
done
Now inside name as output is present:
while i want only the result of the command.
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Would really appreciate it if someone could point out my mistake in this line of code, i've been staring blankly at it trying everything i can think of some time now and coming up with nothing.
#!/bin/bash
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi, wondering if it's been asked before but didn't find matches from google. Basically I have this line:
myvar=$(echo -e "a\tb")
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi
I am trying to write a function that needs to be able to assign the last run shell command to a variable. The actual command string itself not the exit code of the command.
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I am trying to write script to copy some files(/ppscdr/cdrp2p/temp/) from one directory to another directory using shell script. see the script below,
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