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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
I have a variable LOGNUM with values 0000095, When i subtract the variable by 1, Its losing its leading zeros. Can you please help me here ?
LOGNUM=0000095
$OLDLOG=`echo "${LOGNUM}-1"|bc`
$ echo $OLDLOG
94
Am expecting output as
0000094
Appreciate your help!
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Dear All,
assume i have a file with content:
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<Stop>7599</Stop>
the output is:
6000
7000
7100
7200
7300
7400
7599
how should we use any awk, sed, perl can do this task, means to extract the uniq prefixes from the start and stop prefix.
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Dear
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