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get user input in awk script and update it in file

I have a students.txt (RollNo, Name, IDU, CGPA), If Roll number exists prompt the user to change the IDU and CGPA and update the same in the file named “Student.txt” I made the following script: now I need help in taking user input for IDU and CGPA values and update the students.text file with that values aga…

How can I show only some words in a line using sed?

I’m trying to use sed to show only the 1st, 2nd, and 8th word in a line. The problem I have is that the words are random, and the amount of spaces between the words are also random… For example: Is there a way to get this to output as just the 1st, 2nd, and 8th words: Thanks for any

Pipe in ZSH is stripping colors from Git log output

I’m trying to utilize GRB’s git helpers (https://github.com/garybernhardt/dotfiles/blob/master/.githelpers) for pretty printing my git log. The git log –graph –pretty=”tformat:${LOG_FORMAT}” command from line #62 works just fine; printing with colors in iTerm. But as soon a…

Bash Read CSV value from Variable in Bash

So in a script I have a variable that changes each time the script is run. The variable is IP_PING. It is basically a list of if address seperated by commas. I want the script to take each ip addess in the csv variable and ping it. The example below works fine if I only have one ip address in