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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am trying to turn this into an alias with no luck. I would then like to put the alias into my bashrc file. I know awk is very picky about quotes. I have tried every version of quotes, single quotes, double quotes, and backslashes that I can think of.
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If one:
$ find -name 'some expression' -type f > newfile
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi to all,
I'm facing some problems when adding an alias like:
#alias list="ls -al | awk '{ print $1, $2, $3, $4, (($5/1048576))"\t", $6, $7, $8, $9 }'"
and when I enter:
#list
I get:
Syntax Error The source line is 1.
The error context is
{ print >>> , <<<
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I need to login to one server and then switch the user and set a number alias. But i cant modify the .profile file.
I have one script avi1.sh
$ more avi.sh
sudo su - bil
sh avi1.sh
and in home directory of bil i have avi1.sh that says
$ more avi1.sh
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I am trying to write the following command as an alias in my .bashrc file.
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
How can I make an alias of an AWK one liner that prints specific lines from a file like below?
# from a command like this:
awk 'NR == 100, NR == 150' file.cfg
The alias I want to make should work like this(I guess):
<alias_command> <file.cfg><start_line><end_line>
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Good morning
I would like kindly to ask you to help me with creation of alias with awk command.
alias a="awk {print $1 "| " $2 "| " $3 "| " $4 "| " $5 "| " $6 "| " $7 "| " $8 "| " $13 "| " }"
there is some error but I don't find it please explain me what is error and how can be avoid... (5 Replies)
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Good morning
I would like kindly to ask you to help me with creation of alias with awk command.
alias a="awk {print $1 "| " $2 "| " $3 "| " $4 "| " $5 "| " $6 "| " $7 "| " $8 "| " $13 "| " }"
there is some error but I don't find it please explain me what is error and how can be avoid... (1 Reply)
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
I'm trying to define an alias with an embeded awk command:
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