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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi ,
I'm facing a different behaviour with one of my shell script for last few days. It was working good before that.
here is my code for the script FileRemove.sh
#get the file name#
file1=$1
file2=$2
rm $file1 # delete the old file
mv $file2 <target path> #move the new file to the target... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: poova
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
$ ls -1
a.1
b.1
x_a.1
x_b.1
$ ls -1 *
b.1
x_a.1
x_b.1
$ ls -1 **
a.1
b.1
x_a.1
x_b.1The last result is not as expected.
Why?
Thanks. (2 Replies)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi guys,
Here is a simple script. It writes the current time to specific files in a directory.
The arguments are the names of the files to write the date to (without path nor extension).
root:~# cat /usr/local/bin/dummy.sh
#!/bin/sh -e
for file in $@; do
date >> /var/lib/$file.dat... (11 Replies)
Discussion started by: chebarbudo
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4. Homework & Coursework Questions
1.) I am to write scripts that will be phasetest folder in the home directory.
2.) The folder should have a set-up,phase and display files
I have written a small script which i used to check for the existing users and their password.
What I need help with:
I have a set of questions in a... (19 Replies)
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a file test.txt with the lines below :
$ cat test.txt
AAA 1
AAA 2
BBB 5
BBB 7
BBB 9
CCC 3
CCC 4
DDD 6
EEE 5
I want to filter the file above to make it have unique rows with the condition that if there are rows with the same value in the first column I want the row with the... (5 Replies)
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi, what happens in these scenarios?
1. You give no permissions to "others" on a directory, but in that directory the files have read permissions for "others", can they read the file?
2. Are files with rwx attributes to "others" at risk of being copied or read on the system, even if you are... (2 Replies)
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
How can I pass in an argument such as "*.k" to a bash script
without having to double-quote *.k and not having *.k
`glob` to match all files in the pattern?
I tried using noglob in my script but this didn't work the way I thought
it would.. expansion is still occuring, $# is higher than I... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: zoo591
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am on HP-UX and I am trying to come up with a method to call in a list of files named like so.
filename020107.dat filename020207.dat filename020307.dat
Obviously I can list them ls them like so, ls filename*.dat. In case you did not notice the number is a date and I was hoping to match... (4 Replies)
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
I would like to process a list of files matching: GPS*\.xyz with an awk script. I would then like to output the files to GPS*\.xyz.out (e.g. the same file name appended with .out). Something like:
awk '{if(NR==1) {offset=-$1}; $1=$1+offset; print }' GPS*.xyz
this does exactly what I want EXCEPT... (3 Replies)
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hey everyone,
I was just wondering if anybody knows how to do just a few things here. I am pretty sure it's possible, but I don't know exactly how it is done... Let's say I have a long file, and I want to append every other line to another file.
I know that to append the entire thing, you... (3 Replies)
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