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1. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
Hi All,
I am having command to run which will take argument as input file. Right now we are creating the input file by cat and executing the command
ftptransfer -i input file
cat >input file
file1
file2
cntrl +d
Is there a way I can do that in a single command like
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
Recently I got a .txt file from Mac user. when I try to open it in my Ubuntu machine using cat command it is not displaying any content of file however I can see the content using vi.
Anyone know How to see its content using cat as I have to process it in my shell script.
Thanks in... (4 Replies)
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3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I use the cat command to concatenate text files, but one of the rows I was expecting doesn't display in the output file. Is there a verbose mode\logging mechanism for the cat command to help me investigate where the lines I was expecting are going??
cat 7760-001_1_*_06_*.txt | grep -v... (1 Reply)
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello All,
I have a bash script and in it at some point I call an Expect Script that does some stuff and saves its
output in a ".txt" file.
Example "/path/to/my/file/Expect_Output.txt" file: notice the 2nd line is empty in the file...
Data for Host-1 (192.168.1.110)
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5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hello...
Is it possible that we can change the format of the values we entered in a text file using cat?
Like for example, I will create a text file names.txt using cat and as I save the names and view the text file... the format will be like this
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
While editing a small text file with cat command i pressed ctrl-d to send eof, instead of coming out of cat command it echoed ^D to the screen. Same thing is happening to ctrl-c. After googling i found this is because of trap.
The problem is i m stuck in editing mode and cannot get the... (3 Replies)
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I am using Cygwin.I created a new file and type into it using cat > newfile. When I open this using vi editor, it contains loads of extra control characters.
Whats happening? (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: erora
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
So I sorted my file as I was supposed to:
sort -n -r -k 2 -k 1 file1 | uniq > file2
and when I wrote
> cat file2
in the command line, I got what I was expecting, but in the script itself
...
sort -n -r -k 2 -k 1 averages | uniq > temp
cat file2
It wrote a whole... (21 Replies)
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
hey, I'm trying to create the command that will create a file named user.txt that contains the output of the command cut -d: -f1,5 /etc/passwd, and displays itself afterwards.
I don't know how to bridge cat > user.txt with cut -d: -f1,5 /etc/passwd, or how display it afterwards. Any help would... (2 Replies)
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi everybody in the forum,
I want to create an empty file of say some 1MB ,i mean at the command line itself.How is this possible??????EEK! (4 Replies)
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