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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
I need some help. I would like to read in a text file.
Take a variable such as ROW-D-01, compare it to what's in one line in the text file such as PROD/VM/ROW-D-01 and only input PROD/VM into a variable without the /ROW-D-01.
Is this possible? any help is appreciated. (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: xChristopher
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
Below is a sample command that I can run without any problem in the command line.
Command Line
dtToday=`date +%Y%m%d`; ls -ltr ./filename_${dtToday}.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 monuser oinstall 0 Jan 18 11:02 ./filename_20130118.txt
But once I put that command line in file (list.txt) and... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: padi
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
I have been using a program on windows called AutoKey.
My environment at work is Linux and I have been experimenting with expect. Very powerful. I can move my AutoKey scripts to Linux using Expect once I am educated on how to read from a file using Expect.
My application would be... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: quemalr
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a file which has data in 8 lines:
10
34
6
1
4
46
67
31
I am trying to read each value into each different variable so that I use these variables in preparing my report.
Another option is to dynamically print each line values in the report like below:
users with privA:... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: sarat949
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5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
So, the beginning of my script will cat & grep a file with the output directed to a new file. The data I have in this file needs to be parsed, read and evaluated.
Basically, I need to identify the latest date/time stamp and then calculate whether or not it is within 15 minutes of the current... (1 Reply)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
So, I want to read line-by-line a text file with unknown number of files....
So:
a=1
b=1
while ; do
b=`sed -n '$ap' test`
a=`expr $a + 1`
$here do something with b etc
done
the problem is that sed does not seem to recognise the $a, even when trying
sed -n ' $a p'
So, I cannot read... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: hakermania
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I am doing :
while read line
do
printf "%s\n" ${line}
done <datafile.txt
but I am not getting each single line from the data file assigned to the variable line (but only tokens/fields at a time). I also tried while IFS= read -r lineI want the whole line assigned or read into the... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: shri_nath
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I am a beginner in shell scripting. I have written the following script, which is supposed to process the while loop for each line in the sid_home.txt file. But I'm getting the 'end of file' unexpected for the last line. The file sid_home.txt gets generated as expected, but the script... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: sagarparadkar
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
hi...
i need to open a file and read it line by line, and capture that it in to some variable and manipulate...
i need to get a line in to a variable
please help :confused: (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: lmadhuri
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