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Hi Im trying to extract the first seven characters of everyline of a file, then set those seven characters as a variable. The text file is generated by: who >> who.txt A line of text looks like: Username pts/## otherdata So Im trying to get the usernames which on my system are always...

Ill give it a try at work tonight. I really appreciate it. Itd be running on Solaris 10. I cant remember what version Im running of the top of my head.

Thanks for the pointers. I didnt realize how vague I had been. * Is the # in front of style0002 also a digit ? No. I overlooked that when I picked # to represent variables * Are there other style0002 occurrences not enclosed in styleURL tags ? Yes. * Are there other style0002...

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Hi Im trying to replace text in a file based upon a pattern. The pattern Im looking for is: <styleURL>#style0002</styleURL> <name>#######6105#######</name> The # are seven alphanumeric characters before and after 6105. I need it to replace that with: <styleURL>#style0003</styleURL>...

Hi Im wondering how to extract data from a variable, maybe using SED or AWK. I have a variable that contains YYYYMMDD, something like var=20091013. Can I extract the year, YYYY, to varY, the month, MM, to varM and the day, DD to varD?

Hi. Im wondering if there is a way to use flags when starting a script. Something like this. Script -a -b 10 Right now Ive got something like this. while getopts ab AA do case $AA in a) var="value" ;; esac done So with that code I can only use flags ( -a -b...