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  1. ivanmcp

    'word for word' translation - easy?

    Your advice did help in your last post. After typing your code manually, everything went smoothly and worked first time. Awesome job. Thank you again, as I feel like I did learn a great deal. Star has been awarded :). Ivan
  2. ivanmcp

    'word for word' translation - easy?

    Cool, but I get error message after typing sh translate.txt: Enter the word in english: sea house awk: translate.awk:4 aawhile (getline < &quot;lang_french&quot; ) { awk: translate.awk:4: ^ invalid char 'a' in expression note that small aa in aawhile and 'a' have little angled line above...
  3. ivanmcp

    'word for word' translation - easy?

    lhurwitz, thanks for your response, this gives me an idea of how it all works. Salem, nice and rich code you have posted :). I have created all the files above, but only problem is that I am not sure as to how do I make it all work. How do I make a call to your code, so that I am prompted for...
  4. ivanmcp

    'word for word' translation - easy?

    Hi, I am complete newbie, as some of you know already... I have a file which contains two columns, separated by space. First column has english words and second column has words in french, like: house maison meal repas sea mer water eau etc... I use this code to run the translation: echo...
  5. ivanmcp

    File Encrypt/Decrypt: possible?

    Hehe, I'll reffer to this post in six months time :). Thank you anyway. Star is headed your way.
  6. ivanmcp

    File Encrypt/Decrypt: possible?

    Squash, I tried your code, but I am obviously doing something completely wrong. I am not sure how to integrate your code into my application I wrote so far. This is what I am trying to do: Bellow is a code for my menu, from where I can choose various options for my VERY basic translation...
  7. ivanmcp

    File Encrypt/Decrypt: possible?

    Thanx squash and marsd. I will try these in couple of hours. marsd wrote: &quot;Let me see: you want a low level , reversible, cipher created in the shell that is not trivially breakable and that allows you to secure your files? Let me stop laughing for a second..okay done.&quot; My reason for...
  8. ivanmcp

    File Encrypt/Decrypt: possible?

    Hi all, How easy or difficult would it be to write a plain text encryption/decryption shell script to a most basic level? Text would be stored in a file, with ability to produce an encrypted file output. Decryption should restore original plain text. Is this possible or do I need 3rd party...
  9. ivanmcp

    awk problem, unix (rocks) newbie

    Hehe, I just need a basic word, like dog OR cat. If user makes a mistake or enters something different from the words in a file, god help me. This will suffice, as I am trying to see how awk command works at its most basic level. I wouldn't know where to start with user's input error checking or...
  10. ivanmcp

    awk problem, unix (rocks) newbie

    Ok, This one seem to work fine, and is based on pavNell's example: echo &quot;Enter the word in english:&quot; read string echo &quot;Same word in french is:&quot; awk ' { if ($1 == word) print $2 }' word=&quot;$string&quot; lang_words.txt echo echo &quot;press any key to continue&quot; read...
  11. ivanmcp

    awk problem, unix (rocks) newbie

    Tried cruel's code and this is the output: Enter the word in english: car Same word in french is: voiture echarpe echarpe is displayed, as there is another word that contains car - scarf (echarpe) :)
  12. ivanmcp

    awk problem, unix (rocks) newbie

    Just tried pavNell code, and this is the response: Same word in french is: awk: cmd. line:2:    if ($1 == word) {print $2} awk: cmd. line:2: ^ invalid char ' ' in expression
  13. ivanmcp

    awk problem, unix (rocks) newbie

    Hey guys, thank you very much. I can not believe what a quick response I received. I am going to try your code now.
  14. ivanmcp

    awk problem, unix (rocks) newbie

    Hi everyone, I am working on a small language translation program, and am stuck trying to use awk. I have so far created three files: 1. main menu file 2. lookup file with awk, which is called from main menu file 3. language file containing english, french and serbian words, like: sea mer...

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