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1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi
I've a string . And i need to replace set of characters with a single character
Means .. or . or ... and so on should be replaced with single % character
Irrespective of number of dots in between the characters , those should be replaced with single %
All the above strings should be... (3 Replies)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Task 2:
When Im tring script called char that checks a single character on the
command line, c. If the character is a digit, digit is displayed. If the
character is an upper or lowercase alphabetic character, letter is
displayed. Otherwise, other is displayed. Have the script print an
error... (0 Replies)
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3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I have a space delimited text file but I only want to change the first space to a tab and keep the rest of the spaces intact. How do I go about doing that? Thanks! (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: evelibertine
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
Is there a way to perform the above, I am trying to strip out more than one space from a line, but keep the single space. See below output example.
My Name is test test2 test3 test4 test5
My Name is test test2 test3 test4 test5
Please note that the lines would contain... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: eo29
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a folder that contains say 50 files in a sequential order:
cdf_1.txt
cdf_2.txt
cdf_3.txt
cdf_3.txt
.
.
.
cdf_50.txt.
I need to merge these files in the same order into a single tab delimited file.
I used the following shell script:
for x in {1..50};
do cat cdf_${x}.txt >>... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: Lucky Ali
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
I'm new to bash and want to know a simple sed, awk, or grep script that will find all instances of 2 or more spaces and convert them to a single tab. Thanks for the help in advance. (1 Reply)
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
I need to add 'n' no. of tab char (\t) in a file thro' a script. Say for example if I give 5 as input then my script should give the all the lines with 5tabs.
Input File :
#######
12323234
56465456
asdfdf456
dfgdf4564
So my Output File should look like:... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: askumarece
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
i have a commad that display the total each directory size in KB.Below the commad and o/p:
ls -ltr | grep ^d | awk '{print $9}' | xargs du -sk
output:
what i want is the proper tab space b/w value and dir.? how to get that.
thanks in advance (10 Replies)
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I am writing a bash shell menu and would like to get a char immediately after a key is pressed. This script does not work but should give you an idea of what I am trying to do....
Thanks for the help
#! /bin/bash
ANSWER=""
echo -en "Choose item...\n"
until
do
$ANSWER = $STDIN
... (2 Replies)
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10. Programming
Hello,
I'm trying to write a method which will return the extension of a file given the file's name, e.g. test.txt should return txt. I'm using C so am limited to char pointers and arrays. Here is the code as I have it:
char* getext(char *file)
{
char *extension;
int i, j;... (5 Replies)
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