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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
I'm trying to handle some files with spaces in their name using "" or \ . Like "file 1" or file\ 1.
My current confusion can be expressed by the following shell script:
#!/bin/bash
touch "file 1" "file 2"
echo -n "ls: " ; ls
echo ---
for file in "file 1" "file 2" ; do
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hey, not too good at this, so I only managed a clumsy and SLOW solution to my problem that needs a drastic speed up. Any ideas how I write the following in awk only?
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
NOTE: I am using BASH and Solaris 10 for this.
Currently in the process of building a script that has a main "watcher" daemon that reads a configuration file and starts background processes based on it's global configuration. It is basically an infinite loop of configuration reading. Some of the... (4 Replies)
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi, all
I have a file containing the following data:
name: PRODUCT_1
date: 2010-01-07
really_long_name: PRODUCT_ABCDEFG
I want to get the date (it is "2010-01-07" here), I could use the following code to do that:
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi everyone,
I have been a big fan here since a couple years (since I started being an admin ...) and finally decided to become a member and help ppl and perhaps being helped
Now I have a problem that might interest some of the gurus.
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I'm trying to ensure that I have catered for all situations with my getopt cases.
One other situation I want to cover is should the user enter the script without any preceding arguments eg:
./script_eg
I need the script to the direct the user to the helpfile
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I am trying to replace a specific column values in a csv file with double quotes when I am find embedded spaces with in the fields.
Example:
SNO,NAME,ZIPCODE,RANK,SEX,ADDRESS
1,Robert,74538,12,34, M,Robert Street, NY
2,Sam,07564,13,M,12 Main Ave, CA
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi Sorry to multipost. I am opening the new thread because the earlier threads head was misleading to my current doubt.
and i am stuck.
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cmd_name=($5 ~ /^/)? $9:$8
for(pgmname in listawk)
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I am a beginner in shell scripting. I have written the following script, which is supposed to process the while loop for each line in the sid_home.txt file. But I'm getting the 'end of file' unexpected for the last line. The file sid_home.txt gets generated as expected, but the script... (6 Replies)
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am testing a ksh script for email. In the script I receive several parameters. One of them is a subject. The subject may contain spaces. Ex. Test this. When I am running the script on telnet to test, how should the syntax at the command line be written. I have this:
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