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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi Guys,
i guess there is a several ways to grub the strings from date and time
like THISMONTH='/bin/date +%m'
but the hard part is to add or sub that string to a variable
i tried to use let command
TWOMONTHSAGO=$THISMONTH
declare -i TWOMONTHSAGO
let TWOMONTHSAGO-=2
but there... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: CyR0iz4l1v3
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Dear Perl users/experts,
Could somebody help me how to solve my problem, I have a hash variable that I want to convert into dot file (graphviz).
I know how to convert it to dot file but I need some modification on the output of the hash variable before convert it to dot file.
Eeach key of... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: askari
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello Gurus,
This is my first ever post here. I tried looking for similar material but came up empty handed. Apologies if this is too verbose or if I'm not using the correct formatting.
I have files containing a fixed number of elements per line; separator is a single space. Each line has the... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: stdroid
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello
I have a script:
path=test1
echo "${path%?}"
till this the program is successful in deleting hte last character i.e. "1" and displays an output --> test. After this how can i save this output to another variable. (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Kishore920
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have around 400 directories each one named as hour_1/ , hour_2/ .....hour_400/ and each of these contains two files, namely:
File1: hour_1.txt (in hour_1/) , hour_2.txt (in hour_2/) ....hour_400.txt (in hour_400/) etc...
File2: client_list_hour_1.txt (in hour_1/),... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: amarn
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6. Homework & Coursework Questions
1. The problem statement, all variables and given/known data:
The script usage will be as follows:
library.third source_directory
- Your script will display an appropriate error message and exit with status 3 if no parameters are given
- Your script will display an appropriate error... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: netmaster
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I have a file laid out in columns with the first two lines line being:
219 432 4567
219 432 4587
I need to create a single line command to cut the characters in the 5th column and paste them back to the first column in the same file. (Hint:Two good solutions exist, one in which you use a... (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: mcampos7
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello, let's say I have this string:
string1="A\nB\nC D E\nFG\nH";
How can I split it so as to take every string separated with '\n' separately?
For example, as for $string1, it would be split into
string1_part1="A"
string1_part2="B"
string1_part3="C D E"
string1_part4="FG"... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: hakermania
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have a tab-delimited txt file as below. It is part of the original file.
I want to cut the lines starting with "3" in column1 and paste them before the lines starting with "1" in column 1. So I will get
Anyone knows any simple shell scripts to do that? The original file is... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: cliffyiu
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a variable var which contains "ABCDEFDH"
Now I have to remove the first 4 characters that is "ABCD"
so my variable should contain only "DEFH"
plzz tell me how to do that .
i am using bash shell (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: cynosure2009
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