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1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Friends,
I am in need to delete files from a directory on a regular basis. I want to place all the files to be deleted in delete .txt file and require a script to delete files, line by line from this delete.txt file. Please help me with this script as am new to unix scripting. (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: fop4658
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
I need some help. I would like to read in a text file.
Take a variable such as ROW-D-01, compare it to what's in one line in the text file such as PROD/VM/ROW-D-01 and only input PROD/VM into a variable without the /ROW-D-01.
Is this possible? any help is appreciated. (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: xChristopher
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have 80 large files, from which I want to get a specific value to run a Bash script. Firstly, I want to get the part of a file which contains this:
Name =A
xxxxxx
yyyyyy
zzzzzz
aaaaaa
bbbbbb
Value = 57
This is necessary because in a file there are written more lines which... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: wenclu
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Gurus,
You know, I believe you do:-), the comnand uname -r give you the kernel version:
serverA:~# uname -r
2.6.26-1-xen-amd64So, I want to replace this output inside in the line below that is inside the file:
kernel = '/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-xen-amd64'Suppose, you move this file to ther... (2 Replies)
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
What would be the most succinct way of doing this (preferably in 1 line, maybe 2):
searching the first 10 characters of every line in a text file for a specific string, and if it was found, print out characters 11-20 of the line on which the string was found.
In this case, it's known that there... (13 Replies)
Discussion started by: busdude
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
i got stuck in creating a search job.
I have a text file which looks like this:
======================
Backup - OK -
Backup - OK -
Backup - ERROR -
Backup - WARNING -
======================
I want to search the text file for the string ERROR.
If this string is present in the... (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: lnino
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7. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
File 1
<html>ta da....unique file name I want to give file=>343...</html>
<html>da ta 234 </html>
<html>pa da 542 </html>
and so on...
File 2
343
234
542
and so on, each line in File 1 one also corresponds with each line in File 2
I have tried several grep, sed, while .. read, do,... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: web_developer
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi All,
I'm really new to Unix scripts and commands but i think i'm eventually getting the hang of some of it.
I have a task which is to create some kind of script which compares the file names in a directory, with the associated file name in a .txt file. We send out some data and Unix has a... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: gman
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9. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Hi,
I am writing a mailing script by using mutt command. I that i have facing a issues. because, i want to send Some Formatted text as the mail message. but, i try to send the Word Document file as the Mail message. it shows some junk characters in the mail. :confused:I think the mutt command is... (1 Reply)
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all, I'm new to the forums and a total beginner with Unix. I've been given the seemingly simple task of writing a script that asks for two arguments: the first argument being a line of text, the second argument being a document. The script has to take the first argument of text and append it to... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: oldhoi
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