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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello All,
Could you please do help me here as I would like to perform parameter expansion in shell over a parameter expansion.
Let's say I have following variable.
path="/var/talend/nat/cdc"
Now to get only nat I could do following.
path1="${path%/*}"
path1="${path1##*/}"
Here... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: RavinderSingh13
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
(Using Bash 4.4)
When I write something like dir="~/dox"
ls $dir then I get the message that the directory '~/docs' does not exist. I understand that the tilde is not expanded at the time of the above assignment because of the quotes. But why is it not expanded at the time when the ls command is... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Ralph
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello.
I cannot write a command without using eval.
Any help is welcome
Note 1 : What does the function SOMETHING has no importance.
Note 2 : What does the command find has no importance.
It is an expansion variable problem : where to put or or or anythings else
What works (FILTRE_1... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: jcdole
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Heyas
Recently i wanted to help someone with an awk script, but the end-script didnt work as expected.
He wanted, if HOME was empty, to get the HOME of the current USER from /etc/passwd.
At first i tried hardcoded with root:
awk -F: '/^root/ {print $6}' /etc/passwd
As that worked, i've... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: sea
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I'm trying to figure out whether some files exist. Locations of those file are stored in a plain text file called temp.txt in this way:
All environment variables ($LIB_HOME and $ORACLE_HOME) have been set using export command.
Then I do:
while read line; do ] && echo "OK ==> $line" ||... (6 Replies)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Say you have this numeric variable that can be set by the user but you never want it to leave a certain range when it gets printed. How could you use parameter expansion such that it will never expand outside of that boundary? Thanks
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi ,
could anyone help me out with this problem.
sample.txt has this content :
u001- this is used for project1 ||
u002- this is used for p2|| not to be printed
u003- this is used
for project3 ||
u004- this is
used for p4 ||
u005- this is used for project5 ||
u006- this is used for p6... (9 Replies)
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi there,
Can anyone explain me the following behavior?
hfserver:~# ls -l /home/cronlogs/mysqldump*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10658464 2009-01-18 03:00 /home/cronlogs/mysqldump_20090118030002
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10651035 2009-01-19 03:00 /home/cronlogs/mysqldump_20090119030001
-rw-r--r-- 1... (4 Replies)
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have a script that at one point prints to a file as follows:
printf -- $2 > ~/.mydir/$1
The idea is to print to a hidden directory .mydir in my home directory. I've already sanitized the inputs and $1 is in the format path1/path2/filename and $2 is some user input.
When I run this... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Rledley
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10. AIX
Hey Anyone have a copy of the Expansion CD for the old 5.1 Version of AIX
Thanks (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: almuwatta
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