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After successfully completing this module a participant will be able to: :: |
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- Understand |
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* What are archives and zipped files U |
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* What are environment variables U |
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* What are Shell Scripts U |
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- Able to use file comparison commands like Ap |
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diff, cmp, comm |
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- Create and extract archives(.tar files) and zipped files(.gz) Ap |
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- Set/Modify environment as per need Ap |
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- Create shell scripts to automate tasks. Ap |
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In world of Linux based distribution, *tarballs* is the term which pops up very often. It is part of the GNU project and comes as part of every distribution of GNU/Linux. Tarball is like defacto standard for releasing source code for free software. Some of common use of *tar* archives is to: *Store, backup, and transport*. |
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GNU tar creates and manipulates archives which are actually collections of many other files; the program provides users with an organized and systematic method for controlling a large amount of data. It is basically form of creating archive by concatenating one or more files. |
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Getting Started(go go go!): |
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As mentioned previously and if not, *The best way to get started with any command line tool of Linux is to use "man".* :: |
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$ man tar |
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or try these commands(the output may vary with different installations): :: |
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$ tar --version |
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tar (GNU tar) 1.20 |
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Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. |
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License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> |
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This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. |
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There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. |
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Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason. |
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$ tar --help |
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Usage: tar [OPTION...] [FILE]... |
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GNU `tar' saves many files together into a single tape or disk archive, and can |
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restore individual files from the archive. |
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tar -cf archive.tar foo bar # Create archive.tar from files foo and bar. |
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tar -tvf archive.tar # List all files in archive.tar verbosely. |
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tar -xf archive.tar # Extract all files from archive.tar. |
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Creating a tar archive: |
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We will do some off-the road activity for this exercise. We will use an interesting command *fortune* for creating our practice files and then performing archives of those files and directories. Content of the files would vary for users, as fortune works like that. :: |
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$ mkdir fortune-files |
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$ fortune > first.txt |
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Expect the worst, it's the least you can do. |
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$ fortune > second.txt |
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first.txt second.txt third.txt |
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By now we have three txt files, with some random fortune content. To create a tar archive of these files we can use any of following commands according to ones convenience: :: |
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$ tar --create --verbose --file=allfiles.tar first.txt second.txt third.txt |
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allfiles.tar is our required tar archive of all the rest of files(or archive of files mentioned in command line). Other form of the previous command are: :: |
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$ tar -c -v -f allfiles.tar first.txt second.txt third.txt |
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$ tar -cvf allfiles.tar first.txt second.txt third.txt |
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The general format for creating a tar archive is: :: |
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tar [OPTION...] [FILE]... |
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For our command are using these options: |
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* -c to Create the archive. |
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* -v for Verbose mode, to get the names of the files as they are archived. |
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* -f mentioning the file name of the resulting tar archive. |
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To create archive of folder itself try this: :: |
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$ tar -cvf fortune.tar fortune/ |
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To add files to existing tar archive, option *`r`* is used: :: |
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$ tar -r fourth.txt -vf allfiles.tar |
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There are other options too available for explicitly mentioning the position of archive, use *tar --help* for getting all the details. |
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Similarly to remove file from archive use *--delete* option: :: |
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$ tar --delete second.txt -f allfiles.tar |
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$ tar -tf allfiles.tar |
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Listing the files of archive: |
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Once files are archived, tar command have the *`t`* option, for Listing all files in the tar file: :: |
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$ tar tf allfiles.tar |
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**//this is not working for me in some cases :(** |
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Tar creates archives but it does not compress data by itself unless specified explicitly. Hence all the archive we create using tar command, is simply of the size of total size of all individual files. With Linux there is a compression tool known as *gzip* which is used to reduce the size of files mentioned. Whenever possible, each file is replaced by one with the extension `.gz', so unlike `tar` this command would *replace the existing file*. |
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Other feature of gzip is option for mentioning the kind of compression one wants. There is a option of *`-n`* where *n varies from 0 to 9* which regulate the speed/quality of compression. With *`-1`* or *`--fast`* option it means the fastest compression method (less compression) and *`--best`* or *`-9`* indicates the slowest compression method, default compression level is *`-6`*. |
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If one wants to compare two files whether they are same or not, one can use this handy tool. Let us consider some situation, we run find/locate command to locate some file, and it turns out that we have a file with same name in different location, and in case we want to run a quick check on there content, cmp is the right tool. For my system I perform these tasks to illustrate the use of this command: :: |
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Looking at results above mentioned it is very trivial to deduce that, diff if used on two separate text files will result in line by line results for all the lines which are different. So most common use case scenario can be, got some files in various location of system with same name and size, just run diff through them and remove all the redundant files. Other similar command which one can find more effective for this can be *sdiff*, for the same files using sdiff will result in: :: |
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These variables like HOME, OSTYPE,Variables are a way of passing information from the shell to programs when you run them. Programs look "in the environment" for particular variables and if they are found will use the values stored. Standard UNIX variables are split into two categories, environment variables and shell variables. In broad terms, shell variables apply only to the current instance of the shell and are used to set short-term working conditions; environment variables have a farther reaching significance, and those set at login are valid for the duration of the session.By convention, environment variables have UPPER CASE and shell variables have lower case names. |
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* http://lowfatlinux.com/linux-environment-variables.html |
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* http://www.codecoffee.com/tipsforlinux/articles/030.html |
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* http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Teaching/Unix/unix8.html |
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* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environment_variable |
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Shell program or shell script,a sequence of commands to a text file and tell the shell to execute the text file instead of entering the commands. The first *"Hello World"* sample for shell scripting is as easy as it sounds: :: |
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$ echo '#!/bin/sh' > my-script.sh |
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$ clear >> my-script.sh |
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$ echo 'echo Hello World' >> my-script.sh |
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$ chmod 755 my-script.sh |
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$ ./my-script.sh |
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Hello World |
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The #! syntax(also known as shebang) is used in scripts to indicate an interpreter for execution under UNIX / Linux operating systems. The chmod is required to make the script executable. This script will just execute two commands, *clear* and *echo* one after another. One can also do the same task using a one liner command *clear; echo 'Hello World';* but as number of lines grows using a script file is helpful. |
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So lets create a script which gives us all the filenames for given initial alphabet or string in a directory. Let the name of script be *initial.sh*, open it with text editor, and write: :: |
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#!/bin/sh |
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ls > temp |
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grep ^$1 < temp |
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rm temp |
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$ chmod a+x initial.sh |
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$ ./initial.sh s |
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The $1 in the script is pertaining to command line argument. All arguments passed via command line are accessed via *$#* with name of script being first member, that is $0. Now lets write a script for finding a file, and then checking when was it last modified: :: |
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#!/bin/sh |
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name=`find . -name $1 -print` |
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echo $name |
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last_modified=`stat -c %y $name| cut -f 1 -d " "` |
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echo "Last modified: $last_modified" |
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$ ./search.sh fname |
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Try giving some file you want to search in place of fname. Please note in second line *`* its a back-quote(other key mapped with tilda), it is specifically used to get the output of one command into a variable. In this particular case name is a User defined variables (UDV) which stores the value. We access value stored in any variable using *$* symbol before name of variable. |
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naming conventions for variables?? do we need them?? |
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Shell Arithmetic: |
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Shell also provides support for basic arithmetic operations. The syntax is: :: |
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$ expr op1 math-operator op2 |
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Some of example which can be tried handily: :: |
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$ expr -3 + 5 |
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$ expr 10 % 3 |
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1 |
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These spaces in between operator and operands is important, without them shell interpreter will raise the syntax error. :: |
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$ expr 2*3 |
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expr: syntax error |
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One can use back-quotes(`) also to get value of expr. :: |
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$ echo `expr 6 + 3` |
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9 |
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$ result=`expr 6 + 3` |
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$ echo $result |
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9 |
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Shell uses three kinds of quotes. Double quotes("), anything enclosed among them except from variable trailing after $, and characters after \ would be printed as it is. Single quotes('), anything enclosed within them is just same, no formulation/interpretation. Back quotes(`), anything inclosed is considered as command, or is executed. :: |
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$ echo "Today is date" |
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Today is date |
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$ echo "Today is `date`" |
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Today is Wed Sep 16 17:32:22 IST 2009 |
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$ echo 'Today is `date`' |
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Today is `date` |
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$ echo "Today is \n `date`" |
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Today is \n Wed Sep 16 17:40:13 IST 2009 |
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$ echo -e "Today is \n `date`" |
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Today is |
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Wed Sep 16 17:41:13 IST 2009 |
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if else construct: |
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One can have simple *if else if* constructs in shell scripts to check conditions. Lets take simple example of writing a script which returns back whether the argument passed is positive or not: :: |
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#!/bin/sh |
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if test $1 -gt 0 |
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echo "number is positive" |
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echo "number is negative" |
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fi |
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$ ./sign.sh -11 |
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number is negative |
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This script will compare the first value passed as argument with 0 *if test var -gt val*, var being $1 and val being 0, gt meaning greater then. Now this program has some flaw, it will give same result for following input: (-11) and (-1, 5), as we are checking just $1 which is first argument and hence the result. For handling such situation we can include *if-else* clause which will warn user of correct usage of script. :: |
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#this is the case when no argument is passed |
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if [ $# -eq 0 ] |
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echo "$0 : You must give/supply one integers" |
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exit 1 |
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if [ $# -gt 1 ] |
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echo "$0 : You must give one integer" |
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exit 1 |
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fi |
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fi |
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One important thing to not in shell script is spacing, with many comparison and evaluation operation a wrongly placed space will spoil all the fun. So in previous example the expression *[ $# -eq 0 ]* will work properly, but if we remove those leading or trailing spaces like *[ $# -eq 0]*, it wont work as expected, or rather throw a warning. Both *test* and *[]* do the same task of testing a expression and returning true or false. |
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Lets create something interesting using these if-else clause. Now we will create a script which will greet the user when he opens the shell. We will create the script, change the permission to make it executable and append the *.bashrc* file with *./greet.sh* line and we are done. The script is: :: |
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#!/bin/sh |
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#Script to greet the user according to time of day |
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temph=`date | cut -c12-13` |
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dat=`date +"%A %d in %B of %Y (%r)"` |
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if [ $temph -lt 12 ] |
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495 |
then |
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496 |
mess="Good Morning $LOGNAME, Have a nice day!" |
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497 |
fi |
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|
498 |
|
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499 |
if [ $temph -gt 12 -a $temph -le 16 ] |
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500 |
then |
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501 |
mess="Good Afternoon $LOGNAME" |
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502 |
fi |
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|
503 |
|
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504 |
if [ $temph -gt 16 -a $temph -le 18 ] |
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505 |
then |
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|
506 |
mess="Good Evening $LOGNAME" |
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|
507 |
fi |
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508 |
echo -e "$mess\nThis is $dat" |
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|
509 |
|
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510 |
For me when I open the shell the output is something like: :: |
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|
511 |
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512 |
Good Morning baali, Have a nice day! |
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513 |
This is Wednesday 16 in September of 2009 (11:54:47 AM IST) |
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514 |
|
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515 |
Loops |
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516 |
----- |
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517 |
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518 |
Bash has three different commands for looping -- ``for``, ``while`` and ``until``. |
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|
519 |
|
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520 |
``for`` loop |
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521 |
~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
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522 |
|
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523 |
Suppose we have a set of files, that have names beginning with numbers followed by their names - ``08 - Society.mp3``. We would like to rename these files to remove the numbering. How would we go about doing that? It is clear from the problem statement that we could use a ``for`` loop, to loop through the list of files and rename each of the files. |
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|
524 |
|
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|
525 |
Let's first look at a simple ``for`` loop, to understand how it works. |
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|
526 |
:: |
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|
527 |
|
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|
528 |
for animal in rat cat dog man |
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|
529 |
do |
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|
530 |
echo $animal |
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|
531 |
done |
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|
532 |
|
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533 |
We just wrote a list of animals, each animal's name separated by a space and printed each name on a separate line. The variable ``animal`` is a dummy variable and has no significance. You could use something as lame as ``i`` in place of ``animal``. |
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|
534 |
|
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|
535 |
Now, we use a simple ``for`` loop to list the files that we are interested in. |
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|
536 |
:: |
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|
537 |
|
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|
538 |
ls *.mp3 > list |
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|
539 |
for i in `cat list` |
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|
540 |
do |
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|
541 |
echo "$i" |
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|
542 |
done |
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|
543 |
|
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|
544 |
If your filenames contain spaces, ``for`` assumes each space separated word to be a single item in the list and prints it in a separate line. We could change the script slightly to overcome this problem. |
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|
545 |
:: |
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|
546 |
|
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|
547 |
for i in *.mp3 |
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|
548 |
do |
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|
549 |
echo "$i" |
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|
550 |
done |
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|
551 |
|
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|
552 |
Now, we have each file printed on a separate line. Depending on the files that we have we could use grep to get the relevant portion of the filenames and rename the files. |
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|
553 |
:: |
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|
554 |
|
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|
555 |
for i in *.mp3 |
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|
556 |
do |
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|
557 |
j=$(echo "$i"|grep -o "[A-Za-z'&. ]*.mp3") |
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|
558 |
echo "$i -> $j" |
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|
559 |
done |
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|
560 |
|
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|
561 |
Now we just replace the echo command with a ``mv`` or a ``cp`` command. |
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|
562 |
:: |
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|
563 |
|
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|
564 |
for i in *.mp3 |
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|
565 |
do |
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|
566 |
j=$(echo "$i"|grep -o "[A-Za-z'&. ]*.mp3") |
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|
567 |
cp "$i" "$j" |
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parents:
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|
568 |
done |
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|
569 |
|
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|
570 |
As an exercise, you could try sorting the files in reverse alphabetical order and then prefix numbers to each of the filenames. |
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|
571 |
|
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|
572 |
``while`` |
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|
573 |
~~~~~~~~~ |
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parents:
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|
574 |
|
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|
575 |
The ``while`` command allows us to continuously execute a block of commands until the command that is controlling the loop is executing successfully. |
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|
576 |
|
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|
577 |
Let's start with the lamest example of a while loop. |
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parents:
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|
578 |
:: |
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|
579 |
|
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|
580 |
while true |
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|
581 |
do |
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parents:
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|
582 |
echo "True" |
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parents:
diff
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|
583 |
done |
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|
584 |
|
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|
585 |
This, as you can see, is an infinite loop that prints the ``True``. |
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|
586 |
|
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|
587 |
Say we wish to write a simple program that takes user input and prints it back, until the input is ``quit``, which quits the program. |
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|
588 |
:: |
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|
589 |
|
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|
590 |
while [ "$variable" != "quit" ] |
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|
591 |
do |
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|
592 |
read variable |
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|
593 |
echo "Input - $variable" |
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|
594 |
done |
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|
595 |
exit 0 |
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|
596 |
|
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|
597 |
``until`` |
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|
598 |
~~~~~~~~~ |
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|
599 |
|
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|
600 |
The ``until`` loop is similar to the ``while`` loop, except that it executes until the conditional command does not execute properly. |
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|
601 |
|
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602 |
The infinite loop changes to the following, when ``until`` is used. |
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|
603 |
:: |
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|
604 |
|
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|
605 |
until false |
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parents:
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|
606 |
do |
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parents:
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|
607 |
echo "True" |
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parents:
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|
608 |
done |
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|
609 |
|
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|
610 |
Now lets try and use these above mentioned options provided by shell to write a utility. Until now, when we try find or locate it looks through directories and files for result. But they wont search through tar archives and zipped files. Lets create a shell script for especially looking through these files |
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|
611 |
:: |
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|
612 |
|
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|
613 |
#!/bin/sh |
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|
614 |
|
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|
615 |
#To check number of arguments being passed. |
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|
616 |
if [ $# -eq 0 ] ; then |
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|
617 |
echo "Correct usage: $0 tar-archive filename \nOr $0 filename" |
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parents:
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|
618 |
exit 1 |
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|
619 |
else |
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|
620 |
if [ $# -eq 1 ] ; then |
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621 |
tar_archive=`find $PWD -name "*.tar*"` |
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tar_archive=`find $PWD -name $1` |
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fi |
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fi |
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#Search of particular file inside archives. |
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for archive in $tar_archive |
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do |
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echo $archive |
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variable=`tar -tf $archive` |
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for word in $variable |
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do |
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if [ $# -eq 1 ] ; then |
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echo "$word" | grep -q ".*$1" |
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echo "$word" | grep -q ".*$2" |
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fi |
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if [ $? -eq 0 ] ; then |
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echo "File present in $archive!" |
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fi |
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done |
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done |
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Functions |
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--------- |
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When a group of commands are repeatedly being used within a script, it is convenient to group them as a function. This saves a lot of time and you can avoid retyping the code again and again. Also, it will help you maintain your code easily. Let's see how we can define a simple function, ``hello-world``. Functions can be defined in bash, either using the ``function`` built-in followed by the function name or just the function name followed by a pair of parentheses. |
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:: |
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function hello-world |
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{ |
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echo "Hello, World."; |
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} |
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hello-world () { |
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echo "Hello, World."; |
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} |
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$ hello-world |
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Hello, World. |
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Passing parameters to functions is similar to passing them to scripts. |
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:: |
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function hello-name |
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{ |
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echo "Hello, $1."; |
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} |
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$ hello-name 9 |
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Hello, 9. |
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Any variables that you define within a function, will be added to the global namespace. If you wish to define variables that are restricted to the scope of the function, define a variable using the ``local`` built-in command of bash. |
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We shall now write a function for the word frequency generating script that we had looked at in the previous session. |
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678 |
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679 |
:: |
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680 |
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function word_frequency { |
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if [ $# -ne 1 ] |
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683 |
then |
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684 |
echo "Usage: $0 file_name" |
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685 |
exit 1 |
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686 |
else |
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687 |
if [ -f "$1" ] |
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688 |
then |
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689 |
grep "[A-Za-z]*" -o "$1" | tr 'A-Z' 'a-z' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | less |
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690 |
fi |
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691 |
fi |
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692 |
} |
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As an exercise, modify the function to accept the input for the number of top frequency words to be shown (if none is given, assume 10). |
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695 |
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696 |
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Further Reading: |
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698 |
---------------- |
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* http://www.freeos.com/guides/lsst/ |
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* http://bash.cyberciti.biz/guide/Main_Page |
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* http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/ |
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* http://tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-Guide/html/Bash-Beginners-Guide.html |
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703 |