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1. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
Hi Folks,
I am struggling to understand nawk command which was used by another developer.
Can you please explain what each character or string is doing here below:
if ; then (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: kirans.229
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Will someone give me an explanation on how the sed command below works.
sed 's/.*//'
Thanks! (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: scj2012
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3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi everyone,
I am wondering if someone could please break down and explain the following sort command for me:
ls ${DEST_LOCATION}/${FILES} | sort -rt -k 4,4n | head -1
I have tried working it out using 'man sort', but on AIX there is not a great explanation of this function. I know that... (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: jimbojames
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am debugging a script and have stuck up at one code line
awk -F , '{if (match($3,001)) { print $2 } }' Master20120307090511.tmp
The Master20120307090511.tmp is
001,ARE , 001
002,ARE , 002
003,ARE , 003
006,ARE , 006
011,ARE , 011
012,ARE , 012
What happens is when i fire this ... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: vee_789
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5. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
can anyone please tell me what does this expression means , i am under probation and need some explanation :)
$AUDIT_DIR -type f -mtime +$AUDIT_EXPIRE \ -exec rm {} > /dev/null 2>&1 \;
AUDIT_DIR="/var/log/"
AUDIT_EXPIRE='30'
Please use code tags! (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: semaan
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
sed '$!N; /^\(.*\)\n\1$/!P; D'
i found this file which removes duplicates irrespective for sorted or unsorted file. keep first occurance and remove the further occurances.
can any1 explain how this is working..
i need to remove duplicates following file. duplicate criteria is not the... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: mukeshguliao
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi Friends,
I am trying to modify a script .The script contains this line:
sed -n -e 's_.*>\(.*\)<.*_\1_p' filename.xml
I am not great in sed command.I know, it is regular expression
to match a pattern string that starts with s_ and ends with 1_.I doesnot give the desired result.
Can... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: rajsharma
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
can someone please explain the below sed command..
sed 's/\(*|\)\(.*\)/\2\1/' (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: raghu_shekar
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello everyone,
I found this command line in a website:
perl -pi.bak -we's/\z/Your new line\n/ if $. == 2;' your_text_file.txt
With this command line you can insert a new line anywhere you want in a text without overwriting what's in it.
-p causes perl to assume a loop around your... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: goude
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
Could you please explain me the below statement -- phrase wise.
sed -e :a -e '$q;N;'$cnt',$D;ba' abc.txt > xyz.txt
if suppose $cnt contains value: 10
it copies last 9 lines of abc.txt to xyz.txt
why it is copying last 9 rather than 10.
and also what is ba and $D over there in... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: subbukns
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