I want to display 4 options using the case command and refresh the screen when options 1 and 2 are chosen (no changes to the options and you get asked again to chose option), but give a message for option 3 and exit on option 4. I set this up with the script below, but choosing option 1 works and choosing option 2 exits the script.
Code:
#!/bin/bash
#testing options
Option="0"
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I would like to put a variable in the $PS1 prompt that will change each time a command is run. I want the color of the $PS1 prompt to change each time a command is run.I know that I can do this:
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PS1="h@w # "
## "#" is changes every time a command is run
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There's got to be an easy way to do this and I can't find it: I have 50 files with the extension .JPG. I want to change the extensions into lower case with one command.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI have a file like below. For all the lines (except for the ones listed as 'Unknown Owner' and N/A') I would like to change to lower case and concatenate the first and last names.Before:
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aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd,Unknown Owner
ddd.eee.fff.ggg,N/A
hhh.iii.jjj.kkk,John Doe
aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd,Mary Jane
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suppose i store the history number of a command say :
1004 cat file
Then now i want to run it like : !1004 but by using a variable.
command=1004
!$command
i am getting errors like :
command=1004command
i'm trying to execute a shell script, i'm trying to use the values in an array for use in a sed command:
sed -n '/Sales ID: ${array[$i]}/,/Totals:/p'
that command creates empty files. so my guess is that its not recognizing the array as an array but as text?
how would i be able to utilize the array in the command? i got it, didnt think that if i doubled up the single quotes that it would work, but this worked:
sed -n '/Sales ID: '${array[$i]'}/,/Totals:/p'
I am about to move my scripts to the next generation level, so I need some help I am stuck in varying my variable names in a loop. For example:
for user in ben dorothy mike pat
do
[ -r /home/$user ] && let "$user"check=1 || let "$user"check=0
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How to change string variable in awk? for example, I parse with awk script text file named some_name_with_extension.txt
I want to print only some_name in my script
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varCompName = FILENAME
print varCompName
How to put not all symbols from FILENAME to variable?
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Code:
ls Again the command can be stored in a variable and then executed. Like
Code:
var=ls
&var
The above two codes are the same. The problem occurs when we try to pipeline it. Consider the following problem:
Code:
ls | grep *
works fine...but when we try to store it in a variable and run the command there is an error.
Code:
var="ls|grep *"
$var
how to store this kind of commands in a variable?
I've written a simple perl code to learn switches in perl.My code is pasted below,
#!/usr/bin/perl
$opt = 1;
switch($opt) {
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I have the following code :
Code:
E_BADARGS=65
if [ $# -ne 2 ] ; then
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I am having all sorts of trouble trying to assign a variable within an awk script with the system command. I know there is a lot of ways around this problem, but for efficiency reasons, I would like to, within my awk script, do something like
system(x=3)
or
system(x=NR)
and, latter on the shell script which calls the awk script, use the variable $x. But nothing is passed to x. I have already tried things like
command = "x=3"
system(command)
and also used a pipeline within the system to pipe it to /bin/sh In fact tried a lot of stuff like that, using $(( )) etc etc etc I can create directories e write to files (yes, i could write to a file and read from there, but I dont think it is efficient, plus I am puzzled).
Suppose I want to account number of files beginning with abc , I can use "ls 'abc* | grep abc | wc -l", this will return me a number.
I want to store this number in a variable, say var1, so I tried
1. "ls 'abc* | grep abc | wc -l |read var1", but this didn't work as var1 has no value somehow.
2. var1='ls 'abc* | grep abc | wc -l', this just assign the entire string "ls 'abc* | grep abc | wc -l" to var1, which is not I wanted.
I don't want to store the value to a temporary file and then read the value from that file. I think there should be a direct way to get the value, but don't know how. I know in tcsh, one can just use set var1='ls 'abc* | grep abc | wc -l', but it also doesn't work in bash. Can anyone give any clue about this?
I'm trying to create a program that would locate the oldest file of a certain type on a server. Here's the commands:
OLDEST_PATH=`find -L / -depth -maxdepth 6 -mindepth 6 -type d | sort -f | head -1`
OLDEST_FILE=`find -L $OLDEST_PATH | grep .mp3 | sort -f | head -1`
ls -al $OLDEST_FILE
I'm writing this all in expect but I'm having problems. The main problem I have is whenever I try to run the first command, I can't seem to isolate the result of the OLDEST_PATH so that the 2nd command will work. There always seems to be a newline in the variable and the result is only "find -L" command running and it bypasses the variable. If I can just figure out how to get the 1st and 2nd command to work, then I can figure out the 3rd. Here's some code:
Code:
send "find -L / -depth -maxdepth 6 -mindepth 6 -type d | sort -f | head -1
"
sleep 20
expect -re "(.*)
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I know there is a better way to write this. I've tried multiple ways and this just happens to be the last way I've tried it. If you try running this, you'll notice that there is still carriage returns after the result of OLDEST_PATH and it prevents the 2nd "find" command from working properly.
Was trying to write a shell script that has if conditional statements to decide different arguments for a command.Basically:
Code:
if [ "$1" = 1 ]
then
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I have the following TCL code:
if{ [catch {sqlite3 db /path/to/db/file} result] } {
puts stderr $result
} else {
do something
}
What I want is to use a variable for the file name/path. When I put in a variable instead of the absolute path, I get an error: "missing close-brace: possible unbalanced brace in comment while executing"
This is weird because when I run the code with the fully qualified pathname, it works fine. I substitute out the pathname for a variable containing the pathname ($variable) and I get this error.
I'm trying to execute the following command within a bash script:
Code:
tac /var/log/system.log | head -1
The script I wrote is:
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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:
Code:
Changing $files to "$files" eliminate these problems but causes that whole content of variable is treated as one string (one execution of loop).
my 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#+}
how I can search within a variable and assign the results to a new variable. I'll use the following as an example -
cars="Audi BMW Cadillac Chevy Dodge Ferrari Ford Mercedes"
list=`echo ${cars} | egrep -o '<A?+|<C+'`
with the echo command I get the following output assigned to list -
A
C
C
What I'd like to get for output is -
Audi
Cadillac
Chevy
how I could do this regardless of upper/lower case letters?
In my script, I need to get execution time of a command (say 'ls') in mili seconds level. For this i tried using "time" command to retrieve the total execution time in milli seconds. But, the problem is that, how to save the output of time command in a variable. The format of the command is like "time ls -R /opt" Going further, the o/p of 'time' command is:
real 0m0.003s
user 0m0.004s
sys 0m0.000s
Here, in my script, I would like to use only middle line "user 0m0.004s" saved to the variable but unable to find out the way.
included shell script inside c program, and i wanted to assign the value of c variable to shell variable..Can any one please suggest me how to do it?
View 8 Replies View RelatedWhen I try to rename a file in a mounted NTFS file system by only changing the letter case, I receive an error message saying that it is not possible because the file already exists. This must be because ntfs is not case sensitive as regards determining a file name. However, it can use and remember whatever case you want to use. So I can change the letter case in the file's name in two steps: saving the file with a different name first and then renaming it again with the original name and the letter cases I want to use.
View 9 Replies View RelatedIs there any inbuilt functionality in Unix shell script so that i can able to convert lower case string input to an upper case? I dont want to use high level languages like java,python or perl for doing the job.
View 4 Replies View RelatedKernel 2.6, Slackware 12.0
mkisofs 2.01
I do 'mkisofs -iso-level 1 -o image John Smith.txt'. Only an example. When I mount image, ls outputs john_smi.txt. So it has shorten to 8.3 and translated ' ' into '_'. This is in accordance with the manual, although it doesn't say the conversion will be done.
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-iso-level level
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With all iso9660 levels from 1..3, all filenames are restricted to upper case letters, numbers and the underscore (_).
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However, as it did not reject the file name, it should have converted it to all upper case, it seems to me. And -iso-level 2|3 does the same thing.
Code:
root@darkstar:~# mkisofs -iso-level 1 -o image John Smith.txt
Total translation table size: 0
Total rockridge attributes bytes: 0
Total directory bytes: 0
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Two files contain:
file1:
cat
dog
fish
hamster
file2:
cat
fish
ferret
dog
How do you change the case of the letters in file1.txt to uppercase and compare with file2 all in one command?
I am not able to figure out how can I do case-insensitive search using the find command.
I tried
find . -name -i pattern
And it does not work.
This loop is part of a bash script which takes multiple arguments.
Code:
for ((i=1;i<=$number;++i)) ; do
offset=$(($i+5))
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As you know that GNU-C provides qsort() function in <cstdlib> in this prototype
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You may know about Selection Sort Algorithm already, I want to write a function to perform Selection Sort but it can apply generally for many type: int, long, float, double... like qsort() above.
GNU assembler 2.17 (invoked as 'as').
Is there a way of setting no case sensitivity in as?
