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kleinishere
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 Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2004 8:04 pm Post subject: i don't think there is an easier question on this forum |
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i am trying to cut off the first 29 letters that the command "xmmsctrl cur" gives me and output it to a file. could someone please help me.
right now i have this:
| Code: | #!/bin/sh
#please work
song="xmmsctrl cur"
echo ${song:29} |
As i guess many of you know this is just setting song to the string "xmmsctrl cur" and not to the output of the command. i know php, but not how to make linux scripts. i also need to know how to write this to a file, say /home/klein/.gaim/xmmssong. if you could help i would appreciate it sooo much. thanks,
michael
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blue.sca
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| Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2004 8:23 pm Post subject: |
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try | Code: | | song="`xmmsctrl cur`" |
for writing to a file, there are several flow control methods, best would be | Code: | | ./nameofscript > nameoffile |
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| Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2004 8:24 pm Post subject: |
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#!/bin/sh
xmmsctrl cur | cut -c1-29 > /home/klein/.gaim/xmmssong
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