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1. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
cat filename| awk '{ $1=""; print $0}'
in my file there are few lines that has more than 3000 characters per line and as soon as I run the above command it cores, strings core reveals that the awk is failing because input string too long, limit. can i get some help from the experts to find... (8 Replies)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
I'm trying to create a minimal, crude keylogger for X using only a shell script. I was quickly stumped: Why do these two commands entered in a terminal emulator produce output when I type...
$ xinput test 6 | grep press
$ xinput test 6 | awk '{print $3}'
...but this command produces no... (13 Replies)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
I am looking for a method to use in my bash script which allows me to use long strings with all special characters.
I have found that printf method could be helpful for me but unfortunately, when I trying
root@machine:~# tevar=`printf "%s%c"... (2 Replies)
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4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
i have few lines:
3 4 5 6
#72 9 9 9
4 5 67 8 9
#4 6 8 92 1i want to put '#' before each line.
i used this
awk '{print "#" $0;}it gave
#3 4 5 6
##72 9 9 9
#4 5 67 8 9
##4 6 8 92 1but i want the output like this:
#3 4 5 6
#72 9 9 9
#4 5 67 8 9
#4 6 8 92 1I want to avoid the character... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: arindam guha
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi
I would just like to ask if there is a way for UNIX to ignore/overcome the 255 character limit of the command line?
My problem is that I have a really long line of text from a file (300+ bytes) which i have to "echo" and process by adding commands like "sed" to the end of the line, like... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: agentgrecko
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6. Solaris
I get a file which has all its content in a single row.
The file contains xml data containing 3000 records, but all in a single row, making it difficult for Unix to Process the file.
I decided to insert a new line character at all occurrences of a particular string in this file (say replacing... (4 Replies)
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7. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Hi All,
I want to insert xyz.log file in CLOB field of Oracle DB. The log file increases its size dynamically. When i am inserting the file into DB i have to check the size of the file, if its size is more than 32KB then insert upto that size into CLOB field of DB. Otherwise proceed normally.
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi
Hi! I'm currently using AIX 5.2 and would like to know where can i find to see that there's a restriction on the number of login times a user can have. Example, I want give a 2 login per user but some one to give 3 login and some one have to give unlit login time (without logging off the... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: herath
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