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execute lines from a file
Dear All if i had a file that contained a list of commands example ls -l whoami how can i extract each line and execute it then send the output of the command to a unique file moonhead- moonhead
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- Forum: UNIX Scripting
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removing xml comments from file
how can you remove xml tags from a file file: ======================================================= <!-- NB: All suites del.batches will be run at the beginning followed by the rmhist.batches to ensure that all msisdns are in a suitable position to be used -->... -
strip lnes from log files
Dear all If i have a text file that contains a number of lines that i dont wan't can i remove the lines based on a generic word within the file example file: line apples and pears line apples and pears line chips and cheese with a selection of chicken line chips and cheese with a selection of... -
user options STDIN
Hi All the code below is doing a search on a file and outputting the results to screen. i would like to give the user the option of doing another search. as you can see i have an if statement setup but i can't call the while loop. how do i do it? open (FILE, "files/comp.log")... -
grabbing a line from an array
Hi All i am currently writing a script that reads a file into an array. i am then doing a search from stdin for a string in the file. my next task is as follows: i would like to grab the line of text where the search string is stored and display it on the screen. including multiple instances... -
search text in file from STDIN
hi there i am currently writing a script that does stuff with files one file has a list of numbers i am trying to perform a match for a string entered from STDIN it compares what the user enters to the content of the file eg enter a number... 2345 #user enters number 2345 is searched for in...
