I am querying one file with the other file and have them as following: File1: File2: This command: returns lines that overlap, BUT doesn’t have a strict match. Having a strict match, only Helen Stanley should have been returned. How do you restrict awk on a strict overlap? Answer With your shown samples please try following. You were on right
Tag: unix
Cannot assign variable in for-loop in shell script
I tried to assign variable a in for-loop: But when I run, it gave error: Why did it give error? How to assign variable a? Answer There can be no spaces on both sides of the equal sign when defining variables in the Shell. It should be:
Rails server disk space keeps showing out of space [closed]
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Not able to start redhat httpd service
When I try to start the httpd service it is failing with the error : output of journalctl -xe . output of systemctl status httpd.service I tried to change the port number in httpd.conf file. But I got the same error. Can anyone please help? Answer try check your config, validate from command apachectl configtest
Recode value in the column in unix with awk or sed
In the following file, The values of 6th column for the rows who have values other than 1 or 2 in sixth column should be replaced with -9. How can I do it? old.fam new.fam should be Edit: I used cat old.fam | awk ‘{ if ($6==1 || $6==2) {print $1 ” ” $2 ” ” $3 ” ” $4
Simple sorting in linux
I’m quite new to linux, and I can’t quite get to understand sorting. I need to sort a long file by column 4 and then column 5, ignoring the first line. The catch is, there are two separators – ‘.’ and ‘,’ – I don’t know how to make sort command to include both of them. I guess it has
‘DT_REG Undeclared’ even when using header file in function
I’m using the <dirent.h> header file in the function I’m referencing DT_REG, however, I’m getting error an saying ” ‘DT_REG’ undeclared (first use in this function) ” The snippet of the code is: In my makefile I’m using “cc -std=c11 -Wall -Werror -pedantic”. Any ideas for the reason? Answer DT_REG is not part of ISO C11 extensions. Setting -std=c11 strictly
Awk average of column by moving difference of grouping column variable
I have a file that look like this: File is sorted by column 3. I want the average of 4th column grouped by column 3 every 0.5 unit apart. For example it should output like this: I can print all positions without average like this: But I am not able to figure out how to print average of 4th column.
Protecting against Time-of-check to time-of-use?
I was reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-of-check_to_time-of-use They showed this code to be buggy and I totally understand why it’s so: But the real question is how to protect against this type of exploits? Answer You can use the O_NOFOLLOW flag. It will cause the open to fail if basename of the path is a symbolic link. That would solve the described attack.
Python: Run command for another software in terminal
I am using a software that my lab has developed, lets call it cool_software. When I type cool_software on terminal, basically I get a new prompt cool_software > and I can imput commands to this software from the terminal. Now I would like to automate this in Python, however I am not sure how to pass the cool_software commands onto