You could also try something like this:
This was written and tested using the Korn shell, but will also work with any other shell that performs POSIX standard variable expansions (such as bash, ash, or dash).
If you want to try this on a Solaris/SunOS system, change awk to /usr/xpg4/bin/awk, /usr/xpg6/bin/awk, or nawk.
It is intended to be invoked with two operands, but if only one operand (specifying the list file to be used) is provided, the abbreviation defaults to "ab"; and if no operands are provided, the list file defaults to "list.txt" and the abreviation defaults to "ab".
(If you uncomment the printf statement, you can watch it build the arrays it will be using as it reads lookup.txt.)
With your sample input, the output produced when it is invoked as:
is:
and when invoked as:
it produces the output:
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I have an application(Minecraft Server) that generates a logfile live. Using Crontab and screen I send a 'list' command every minute.
Sample Log view:
2013-06-07 19:14:37 <Willrocksyea1> hello*
2013-06-07 19:14:41 <Gromden29> hey
2013-06-07 19:14:42 Gromden29 lost connection:... (1 Reply)
Hello all,
after spending hours of searching the web I decided to create an account here. This is my first post and I hope one of the experts can help.
I need to resolve a grep / sed / xargs / awk problem.
My input file is just like this:
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I'd like to create an alias that displays my string but leaves my cursor at the end.
Not seeing any examples of this.
One indirect way might be to preload or stuff the history buffer, so I just hit up arrow. (2 Replies)
Hello
I'm new to Solaris
I have a file have things like these
PATTERN12345678
PATTERN12345678PATTERN87654321
PATTERN12345678 PATTERN87654321
i hope i could change to this format
PATTERN12345678
PATTERN12345678
PATTERN87654321
PATTERN12345678
PATTERN87654321 (4 Replies)
Hi
I want to search for a specific pattern in file
Say
ABC;HELLO_UNIX_WORLD;PQR
ABC;HELLO_UNIX_WORLD_IS_NOT_ENOUGH;XYZ
ABC;HELLO_UNIX_FORUM;LMN
Pattern to search is : "HELLO_UNIX_*****" and not "HELLO_UNIX_***_***_"
I mean after "HELLO_UNIX" there can only be one word.In this case... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I need to search a file, in each line I need to check for occurance of '1' from a particular position through the next 32 bytes. If 1 is found, i need to return the position. Here is an example of the file and the output i need. Please help. I'm new to perl and unix.
File:
... (1 Reply)
Hi,
Need some idea on file processing, I have file like below,
Processing al sources ...
...No value found :
CHECK.
Completed comparing all sources.
Comparing schedulers...
Processing al targets ...
...No value found :
From above I need to extract the line where "No value... (4 Replies)
I would like to write a script which will read a file containing a list of filenames of the format as shown below :
/usr/local/packages/runcmdlinetool
/home/john.doe/sdfsdf/sdfsdfsd/sdfsdf/sdfsdfTemplates.xml
/usr/local/bin/gtar... (4 Replies)