UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi Guys,

I am new on the scripting world and would like ask for help if you can.

Here are my questions below:-
If you could provide a simple scenario that would be a big help.

Thanks you in advanced.

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It's work related and for some reason this question was approach to me by my co workers here in the office. To tell you honestly I don't really know the answer yet. I do some research like using awk, uniq, etc.. but I am not sure how to put that different commands in one liner were we could get the desire answer. Hopefully you could help on it .

For the 1st problem, you can try:

Code:

awk -F, ' {print $0, ($5 == "" || match($5, /[^[:digit:]]/)) ? "non-numeric" : "numeric"}' input_file

If you want to try this on a Solaris/SunOS system, change awk to /usr/xpg4/bin/awk, /usr/xpg6/bin/awk, or nawk.

For the 2nd problem, you need to much more clearly define the problem. Are you looking for files that contain a duplicate of a given line? Are you looking for files that contain two identical lines? Are you looking for files that contain any line that is also present in any other file under the same directory?

Yes I am looking for all the thing you have said about the lines. Actually all of then that you have said.

Show us sample input. Show us sample output that you want from that input. Clearly describe why that output should be produced from the sample input you show us. Look at the man pages for grep and awk. Show us what code you have used to try to solve these problems. (Use CODE tags when you show us all of the sample input, output, and code.)

Tell us what OS and shell you're using.

If you aren't willing to show us that you're willing to put some effort into this yourself, there isn't much incentive for us to do your work for you. We're happy to help you learn how to use the tools available on UNIX and Linux systems to perform the tasks you want to get done. We are not here to act as your unpaid programming staff.