03-28-2014
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1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I would like to substitute a phrase which contains square brackets.
change TO
how?
Thanks (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: gilead29
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
One of the senior administrators gave me a shell script to modify and it begins as follows:
if ] && ]
{more code follows}
Why the double square brackets? (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: mojoman
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi
First apologies if this has been raised before.
I've got the following in a ksh script:
if ]
For some reason this does not work. But if I remove the double square brackets to:
if
This works.
I thought ksh supported the ]. Or is there more to it?
Thanks in advance. (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: tsu3000
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4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hello,
Can someone please explain to me the following line,
] && break
I do not understand why two test square brackets are used.
Thanks,
Shantanu
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And, also why there's a $ before (echo $c |... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: Shan_u2005
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
hi guys,
i'm writing a script that looks for a unquie id in a file and replaces a string between two square brackets on the same line as the unquie id:
.......
.......
0001 zz 43242 replace this text] name
0002 sd 65466 UK] country
.......
.......
how can i find line with id 0001... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: zaff
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
I have a text file which looks like this:
computer programming
systems engineering
I want to get rid of these square brackets and also the text that is inside these brackets. So that my final text file looks like this:
computer programming
systems engineering
I am using... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: shoaibjameel123
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
After searching about this, I could find some solutions but I am not sure why it is not working in my case.
I have a text file with contents between two square brackets. The text file looks like this:
Use tags when you post any code so others can easily read your code. You can... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: shoaibjameel123
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi frieds, I don't understand the difference between single square bracket and double square brackets in a IF condition.
Ex.
if ;
then
RETURNJOB=1
else
RETURNJOB=0
fi
It run, but this
if ];
then
RETURNJOB=1
else
RETURNJOB=0
fi (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: dogshort
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
Hope you all are doing good. Yesterday in my project i came across a scenario which i can not guess why it was working in one region and why it was not in another region. Please find my issue below.
I am using AIX version 6.0 of UNIX in my project, in shell scripting i have the... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: mad man
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10. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
Hi all,
I have a text file similar to this:
Text
More text
Etc
Stuff
That
Is
Needed
Etc
Etc
This contains over 70 entries and each entry has several lines of text below the name in square brackets. (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: Scally
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CHDIST(1) CHDIST(1)
NAME
chdist - script to easily play with several distributions
SYNOPSIS
chdist [options] [command] [command parameters]
DESCRIPTION
chdist is a rewrite of what used to be known as 'MultiDistroTools' (or mdt). Its use is to create 'APT trees' for several distributions,
making it easy to query the status of packages in other distribution without using chroots, for instance.
OPTIONS
-h, --help
Provide a usage message.
-d, --data-dir DIR
Choose data directory (default: $HOME/.chdist/).
-a, --arch ARCH
Choose architecture (default: `dpkg --print-architecture`).
--version
Display version information.
COMMANDS
create DIST [URL RELEASE SECTIONS]
Prepare a new tree named DIST
apt-get DIST <update|source|...>
Run apt-get inside DIST
apt-cache DIST <show|showsrc|...>
Run apt-cache inside DIST
apt-rdepends DIST [...]
Run apt-rdepends inside DIST
src2bin DIST SRCPKG
List binary packages for SRCPKG in DIST
bin2src DIST BINPKG
List source package for BINPKG in DIST
compare-packages DIST1 DIST2 [DIST3, ...]
compare-bin-packages DIST1 DIST2 [DIST3, ...]
List versions of packages in several DISTributions
compare-versions DIST1 DIST2
compare-bin-versions DIST1 DIST2
Same as compare-packages/compare-bin-packages, but also runs dpkg --compare-versions and display where the package is newer.
compare-src-bin-packages DIST
Compare sources and binaries for DIST
compare-src-bin-versions DIST
Same as compare-src-bin-packages, but also run dpkg --compare-versions and display where the package is newer
grep-dctrl-packages DIST [...]
Run grep-dctrl on *_Packages inside DIST
grep-dctrl-sources DIST [...]
Run grep-dctrl on *_Sources inside DIST
list
List available DISTs
COPYRIGHT
This program is copyright 2007 by Lucas Nussbaum and Luk Claes. This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
It is licensed under the terms of the GPL, either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
Debian Utilities 2013-12-23 CHDIST(1)