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Could someone help me in shortening the following bash script to one command without piping. Code: for i in `ls -la | awk '{print $9}' | grep -v lvx-frotix-pcs`; do ...
  1. 06-08-2011 #1
    dzerueé
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    Exclamation Pls shorten the following code

    Could someone help me in shortening the following bash script to one command without piping.

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    for i in `ls -la | awk '{print $9}' | grep -v lvx-frotix-pcs`; do grep -e "number" $i; done | grep -v ^# | awk '{print }'
    It would help me a lot!
    Thanks!
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    Quote Originally Posted by dzerueé View Post
    It would help me a lot!
    Thanks!
    It would help you a lot with your homework? May I refer you to the forum rules...
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  3. 06-08-2011 #3
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    This sounds like a school question

    Have you tried breaking out the peices to learn what it's doing? That's really the first step to cleaning this up. I can tell you right off that it's a blatently complex way of doing something simple, so I assume it's some kind of test or something.

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