I have a file (.tmpfile) and inside it is a string which i only know part of, the rest being a random group of characters... I would like to know how to pull the whole string out of the file and into a variable.
View 13 RepliesI do this:
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a@b:~$ export A=hi
a@b:~$ echo $A
hi
a@b:~$ bash -c "export A=blah; echo $A"
hi
a@b:~$
Why doesn't the bash command print the new value of $A? Is there a way to make it do so?
(variable substitution?)
(parameter expansion?)
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run_repeatedly()
{
NUM=0
while [ <irrelevant stuff here> ]
[Code]....
run_repeatedly "programX -o "./messy/path/output-$NUM.txt"" The echo inside the loop prints "...-$NUM.txt"; obviously I'm aiming to have bash substitute the iteration number so that I end up with many output files not 1.
I have a program that loops over each word in a sentence. I need to append a constant to the beginning and end of each word. It works up until the last word on the line.
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How ever when I run this script I get the following error
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I just don't get it, I have racked my brain trying to figure out every combination of how I should write this if statement and I can't get it to work.
Bash 3.1.7
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I think read A1 A2 makes A1, A2 string variables. Then, when A2 gets the value 01, '01' should be a string. But for some reason bash takes it as numeric. I know there are no types in bash.
I need to search a text file for a string of numbers which are different lengths, and always are between number=" and " like:
number="1234567890"
number="22390"
I need to grab those numbers and pipe each one to a line in a file. I've already tried something with awk and that didn't seem to work.
I'm trying to read content of file to variable and use this variable in for loop. The problem is, when I have c++ comment style in file - /*. Spaces in line are also interpreted as separated lines.
For example:
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Changing $files to "$files" eliminate these problems but causes that whole content of variable is treated as one string (one execution of loop).
I have a text file i that has a mailTo: NAME in it. In a bash script i need to extract NAME and put it in a $variable to use. How do i do this?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI know that cat can output the file, but how do you store that output in a variable to process:
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CONTENT=cat file.txt
This doesn't seem to work?
My script.
This is may script:
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Problem: Output file doest not exclude the values in grep -av
On one of my servers I see this when I log in. What does this mean and how can I get it to go away? Everything seems to work fine, but none of my other machines give this error.
View 5 Replies View Relatedmy script has a variable which comes in the form +00.00 +0.00 -00.00 or -0.00 (the numbers can be any in that form) for any that have a + symbol I need to remove the +, but if it has a - symbol it needs to stay.
i need to make a new variable with the string from the old variable btut without any plus sign. I have tried a lot of different ways with no success, each thing I tried either left the + or removed the entire string. I think this should work but doesn't
foo=+12.40
bar=${foo#+}
in the access logs i have this:
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IP.IP.IP.IP - - [01/May/2010:11:21:10 -0400] "BIG STRING" 414 250
how can i grep and pull the IP based on the request string?
I'm facing problems in developing the script as there are errors that sometimes i dun have any idea on how to solve it.What i'm doing now is not homework, but i had been assigned to develop some system in linux.
My problem currently is on sub-string matter, where i need to read the line from file/directory and based on the line retrieved,i need to seperate the information in the line and assign as variable..
Below are my script:
Thus, the output something like this: file_name successfully ran on Mon Jul 12 23:15:00 SST 2009.
Now, what i need to do is to extract certain information from that line which is the name, date, time and the status
The desired output is:
So,my next step is to identify the sub-string and assigned as variable first in order to parse the info and output it.
Thus,my script is:
But i received error message which is:
How do i convert variable to string?
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So how do i make the code with variable work?
OK I have a simple script that does:
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# Create temporary file:
pwFile="~/Tmp/temp.cnf"
echo "$password" > "$pwFile"
But I get an error message:
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~/Tmp/temp.cnf: No such file or directory
I am trying to remove everything before my string code...
View 9 Replies View Relatedi'm not actually using Linux but i figured this might be the right place nonetheless..o i've got this little script file to compile and run some Java code:
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#!/bin/bash
cd /Users/acid/Desktop/javaTest
[code]...
How can we do a file replacing string on debian/rules file using sed and bash variable ? I don't seem to be able to do so. I have tried below under the install section with arch dependent amd64, as far as I know all the bash commands are allowed to be executed in debian/rules file.
I have tried this :
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debian/rules file
ipaddr=`<long command to find ipaddr>`
myVar=`hostname`
sed -i -e 's/somestring/'$myVar'/g' $(configs)*
sed -i -e "s/somestring/$myVar/g" $(configs)*
[Code]...
Nothing works. Sed works but the hostname replacement doesn't work.
I want to match some filename in some text, but the filenames I have no control of, so "[" can "]" can appear in the filenames.so do I always have to use sed to addslashes to these variables before I have to grep them? and what other characters have I missed other than "[", "]", "."?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI googled and tried to find an easy step by step-by-step guide on how to use a bash script read a variable from a file. This is the way I did it (but it does not really work so something is wrong, but what?) (testfil2 contains one line that readsidnumber=1578
#!/bin/bash
value="/home/user1/Desktop/testfil2"
echo $value
kill $pidnumber
write such script (bash script). I have some text file with name filename.txt I must check if this file contains string "test-string-first", I must cut from this file string which follows string "keyword-string:" and till first white-space and save it to some variable.
For example. File: PHP Code: PHP Code:
Start 15022011 Eng 12-3-42
SN1232324422 11 test-string-first
SN322211 securities
HH keyword-string:123456321-net mark (11-22)
[Code].....
At my wit's end I can't find anything that I understand well enough to use. This is for a Unix class, we are working with shell scripting. File1 has 5 in it and File2 has 100 in it.The teacher wants us to read the values then do the math. This is what I have so far:#!/bin/bashvar1='cat File1'var2='cat File2'var3=`echo "scale=4; $var1 / $var2" | bc`echo The final result is: $var3
View 9 Replies View RelatedI am trying to think of a logic where my file contains some data I had to read and do some processing. Issue is that file contains data multiple times. For example:
:::::::::::
var1=value1
var2=value2
[code].....
I have to read first paragraph of variables and do some processing and then move on until the end of file. Variable names are same in whole file but for each paragraph the value is different. I can't think of a logic to attain this task. How can I do it? It should be a simple bash script, but I am not able to work out.
I wanted to find and replace a string from a perl file. I have written a script in bash which runs the following command.
perl -pi -e "s/$findstring/$replacestring/" testfile
where as $findstring = print F_WC_TMP"$line
";
and $replaceString = $line = join ' ', split ' ', $line; print F_WC_TMP"$line
";
But when I am running the above command, i think it is replacing the $findstring with the above mentioned string and hence it contains a $line, it is looking for the variable $line and not finding the exact string. I am confused about how to search for a string that contains $ in it and replace it with another $string.
I've a string "this.is.a.name", and I would like to return "is.a.name". How can I do that in bash?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI've a script that it's invoked with n-variable parameters. Here's an examples:
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./myprogram.sh inputdir FIELD1 FIELD2 ... FIELDN outputfile In the script I would like to get the FIELD names that were passed.
Assume that i a having the following three lines in an executable file
#/bin/bash
a=Tue
Tue=1
When i give echo $a the value should be 1, how to do this.
I have to create a bash script that takes an arbitrary length number from the command line, and add up each individual digit
Ex:
server> myscript.sh 123
server> 1 + 2 + 3 = 6
The problem I'm having is pulling out each character.
Is there a way in bash I can parse the input string for each character? I can't figure out a way to do this.