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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All.
Attached are two files.
I ran a query and have the output as in the file with name "FILEWITHFOURRECORDS.txt "
I didn't want all the spaces between the columns so I squeezed the spaces with the "tr" command and also added a carriage return at the end of every line.
But in two... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: sparks
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2. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Hi
Could you please advise how can one extract from the output of
find . -name "*.c" -print
only filenames in the current direcotry and not in its subdirectories?
I tried using (on Linux x86_64)
find . -name "*.c" -prune
but it is not giving correct output.
Whereas I am getting... (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: tinku981
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a file that I'm trying to find all the cases of phone number extensions and deleting them. So input file looks like:
abc
x93825
def
13234
x52673
hello
output looks like:
abc
def
13234
hello
Basically delete lines that have 5 numbers following "x". I tried: x\(4) but it... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: pxalpine
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
what elements does " /^/ " match?
I did the test which indicates that it matches single lowercase character like 'a','b' etc. and '1','2' etc.
But I really confused with that. Because, "/^abc/" matches strings like "abcedf" or "abcddddee".
So, what does caret ^ really mean?
Any response... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: DavidHe
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
In ksh, I am trying to compare folder names having -141- in it's name.
e.g.: 4567-141-8098 should match this expression '*-141-*'
but, -141-2354 should fail when compared with '*-141-*'
simlarly, abc should fail when compared with '*-141-*'
I tried multiple things but nevertheless,... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: jidsh
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
how to find for a file whose name has all characters in uppercase after 'project'?
I tried this:
find . -name 'project**.pdf'
./projectABC.pdf
./projectABC123.pdf
I want only ./projectABC.pdf
What is the regular expression that correponds to "all characters are capital"?
thanks (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: melanie_pfefer
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi Gurus,
I need help with regular expressions. I want to create a regular expression which will take only alpha-numeric characters for 7 characters long and will throw out an error if longer than that.
i tried various combinations but couldn't get it, please help me how to get it guys.
... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: ragha81
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
can anyone advise me how to shorten this:
if || ; then
I tried but it dosent seem to work, whats the correct way.
Cheers (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: jack1981
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
How can i create a regular expression which can detect a new line charcter followed by a special character say * and replace these both by a string of zero length?
Eg:
Input File san.txt
hello
hi ... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: sandeep_hi
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
I'm trying to parse RichText to XML. I want to be able to capture everything between the '/par' tag in the RTF but not include the tag itself. So far all I have is this, '.*?\\par' but it leaves '\par' at the end of it. Any suggestions? (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: AresMedia
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