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separating a file into pairs of words
A textfile looks like this: word1 word2 word3 word4 word5 word6 ... I want to make it look like this: word1 word2 word2 word3 word3 word4 word4 word5 .... so that every adjacent pair of words appears as one line of the new file. Can someone give me a quick clue how to accomplish this? Many thanks. ... 27 Jun 2010 09:32

Changing SAS proc format to if-then-else
Hi All, Can anyone let me know how to write a perl script or ksh script to change proc format in SAS to if-then-else. Please see below for example. Thanks for your help. /*OLD FILE*/ %let _V0 = var1; /* xnbntl75_n */ %let _V1 = var2; /* pct_pay_bal_cyc_1 */ proc format; value V_... 20 Jun 2010 20:03

(sh/bash) How to check for a string matching -*?
Currently, I use case/esac to test to see if a string starts with a dash: case $1 in case -*) ... esac But it would be more convenient to be able to do it with "test" syntax, i.e.: [ $1 {something} - ] I think there is some syntax to do that, but I don't know it. -- (This discussion group is about C... 22 Jun 2010 09:21

substituting a blank character
I have a collection of files of all ascii data in which certain lines contain an @ char. In the lines that don't have the @ char, I want to substitute a space. However, since the @ is not at the beginning or end of the line, I am having difficulty determining how to accomplish this. The data below is not the r... 21 Jun 2010 04:47

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Can't work out the globbing in this script
I've found some code that makes a cursor spin around. It appears to me that the author is globbing/patternmatching his way through the cursor spin states. But he doesn't comment what he's done. There are a couple of clever things, secondly is the printf substitution that he's done. But in order to make that work... 25 Jun 2010 21:56

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bash doesn't recognize control-c, control-z
bash doesn't recognize control-c, control-z I'm on HP-UX. Below is some output from stty -a. Obviously, control-z (susp) is undefined. But neither @ (for kill) nor DEL (for intr) work. How do I set these up? I know there's a way, but I've completely forgotten and google didn't show an immediate result. in... 19 Jun 2010 06:56