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1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I am not able to capture the user input in this script(bash).There is prompt for user input.Could some one help me capture user input while reading afile?
while read line
do
echo "$i"
path1=$line
path2=`echo $line|sed s/new_dir/old_dir/`
echo "Do you want to replace?";... (4 Replies)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
I have a little problem with my shell script (reading user input, save user input to variable, invisible characters in the log file :()
printf "1. What's your file path?"
/path/to/my/file
read -e FILE
I have invisible characters in my log file (e.g. <ESC> or ^G) when I'm... (3 Replies)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
echo "Enter the Value : "
read value
sed '1s:\(.\{6\}\)\(.\{4\}\):\1'$value':' flextran$RUN_DATE-completed.txt > temp.txt
mv temp.txt flextran$RUN_DATE-completed.txt
on the run time after entering the input value it waits for keystroke and the values is not input to the function
The output... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: rammm
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4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I need to read the date from the input file. The format of the input file is as follows:
a_b_c_yyyymmdd.txt
I need to read the date(yyyymmdd) part from the name of the input file.
Would really appreciate if someone can help me in this regard
Thanks a lot. (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: Sunny_teotia
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Alright, so the goal of my script is to read text from standard input and store it into a file using the ex-editor:
so far i've got this, but it doesn't work.
#!/bin/s
read text
ex $1 >> HERE
text
HERE
I don't get any errors either, so i don't know what i'm doing wrong. (7 Replies)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi guys,
I am new to AWK and unix scripting. Please see below my problem and let me know if anyone you can help.
I have 2 input files (example given below)
Input file 2 is a standard file (it will not change) and we have to get the name (second column after comma) from it and append it... (5 Replies)
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am trying to read input for a C program (that expects input from the user) from a file using the shell command:
progname < filename
but it seems that the program considers the char '<'
as the first input, hence causing an "error" in my program.
I checked it with another program and it... (2 Replies)
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8. Solaris
Hi all ,
I just installed a Solaris10 on x86 machine , running on vmware . I was able to telnet from my local machine to the solaris ( the one running on the vmware) , but the connection was pretty slow and intermittent . Is there any setting that I should customize to ensure the telnet... (2 Replies)
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9. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
I am having problem with ftp not indicating any error, but my customer is complaining that their response file is not present on their machine. This only happens a couple of times a day. Is there a debugging option I can turn on to the trace the ftp command. I have a return code displayed and it... (2 Replies)
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
First I' d like to say you guys are awesome. :)
I have a word document that I cut and paste into Textpad and it removed all the fancy formatting which is fine with me. I WinScp'd it to the box and and called it inputfile.txt.
Opened it in vi and don't see any special characters or stuff that... (2 Replies)
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