Perl script options

Using getopt in perl scripts.
Sample code

#!/usr/bin/perl
#-------------------------------------------------------------------------
#       Using getop
#-------------------------------------------------------------------------
use Getopt::Std;
getopt('cw');
my @op = `./x.sh -c $opt_c -w $opt_w`;
foreach (@op)
{
        #printf "-c %s\t-w %s\n", $opt_c,$opt_w;
        print $_;
}

Output

./x.pl -c 3 -w 55

in ./x.sh.sh : -c 3 -w 55

-c 3

-w 55

or

my %options=();

#Pre set default values 

my $critv=95;
my $warnv=85;
getopts("c:w:", \%options);
$critv = $options{c} if defined $options{c};
$warnv = $options{w} if defined $options{w};

This method won't report an error if an option is emitted.

awk convert time string to time format

This will take a time string HHMMSS (121525) and format it as 12:15:25

A sample line from a.txt:

01201 095440 sd10 3393.2 1.1 13572.8 4.4 0.0 1.0 0.3 2 91

awk '{h=substr($2,1,2);\
      m=substr($2,3,2);\
      s=substr($2,5,2);\
      $2=sprintf("%s:%s:%s",h,m,s);\
      print $0;}' a.txt | head 

Will produce the following out put:

101201 09:54:40 sd10 3393.2 1.1 13572.8 4.4 0.0 1.0 0.3 2 91

Midnight commander

Startup Midnight commander with each panel in a pre-detirmined location.

mc /tmp /#ftp:guest@remote-host.com/pub/dir

Using awk to remove path and print file date

$ls -lat /current/*xml | \
         nawk '{printf "%s ", $8; system("basename " $9)}'

20:24 file1.xml

21:44 file2.xml

22:34 file3.xml
$

Translate upper case to lower case with vim

Translate upper case to lower case with vim.

:%s/[A-Z]/\L&/g

or

:%s/.*/\L&/

vi: Appending text to the end of each line

Appending text to the end of each line.

:%s/$/TextYouWantToAppend/