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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
so i have strings such as this:
'postfix/local#2,5#|CRON.*12062.*root.*CMD#2,5#|roice.*NQN1#1,2#|toysprc#1,4#'
i need to get rid of the "#" and the numbers between them for each of the strings above. so the desired output should be:
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Discussion started by: SkySmart
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2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
i'm grepping for words in the /var/adm/messages (sun solaris).
but it looks like while my grepping finds the strings, when it outputs them out, the beginning of some lines are chopped off.
Jun 13 14:06:02 sky.net ufs: NOTICE: alloc: /prod: file system full
3 14:39:19 sky.net ufs: NOTICE:... (1 Reply)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
sed -e "s// /g" old.txt > new.txt
While I do know some control characters need to be escaped, can normal characters also be escaped and still work the same way? Basically I do not know all control characters that have a special meaning, for example, ?, ., % have a meaning and have to be escaped... (11 Replies)
Discussion started by: ijustneeda
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
ok, so i have no clue why this script i wrote spits out these bizarre characters:
i cant even copy and paste those characters on here because it just doesn't show up properly.
my question is, using sed, how can i get rid of all characters that aren't normal?
echo "abnormal characters" |... (4 Replies)
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5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
When I use vi to see what's in the file I get this:
int add1(int x) {^M return x + 1;^M}
^Mint subtract1(int x) {^M return x - 1;^M}
^Mint double_it(int x) {^M return x * 2;^M}
^Mint halve_it(int x) {^Mreturn x / 2;^M}
^Mint main() {^M int myint;^M int result;^M ... (2 Replies)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi!
Could anyone so kindly help me a code to eliminate from a txt file, obtained by collecting and merge several web-page, every word (string) containing non alphabetical, numeric and punctuation character (i.e NON a-zA-Z0-9, underscore and punctuation mark)?
Thanks a lot for the help to... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: mjomba
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a database script that always produces the following output:
0
btw, the unwanted character looks like a square on a unix system. it doesn't look like the above quote.
how can I get rid of it and only keep the "0"?
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Discussion started by: SkySmart
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi!
So i've got this shell script that asks questions and the user is required to input answers. The answers typed are bold.
sh-*.*$ sh filename dir
cat question
tput bold
read ans
tput sgr0
... and so on
tput sgr0
exit
So when the script ends i don't get the bold characters... (3 Replies)
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9. UNIX and Linux Applications
Hi Friends,
we have recently installed RHEL4.4 and when i give the commd
ls -l > tt it prints the file name with some special charactes like
^[[00m1 in the begining of the file name and at the end of the file name. I wanted to use the file names of removing it before taking
the backup and... (4 Replies)
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I man a command and save it in a file. ftp to pc. but when i displayed it. it has some repeat and funny characters. how can i get rid of it?
eg.
$ man ls > lsman
then use ftp transfer the file from unix to pc.
open file laman. it has some thing like
NNNNAAAAMMMMEEEE
repeat letters... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: gusla
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