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If you want to pass an array of items to a bash function, the simple answer is that you need to pass the expanded values. That means that you can pass the data as a quoted value, assuming that the elements are whitespace delimited, or you can pass it as a string and then split it using an updated IFS (Internal Field Separator) inside the function.
Following is an example of taking the output of a Hive query (a single → Continue reading “Passing an Array as an Argument to a Bash Function”
I’m using the Hortonworks Virtual Sandbox for development and testing and wanted to restart the HDP stack without (of course) having to restart the VM.
It took me a little while to figure out how to go about it as Internet searches on the topic revealed very little.
It turns out that Hortonworks have set up their own service on the box, startup_script.
If you take a look at /etc/init.d/startup_script you will see that it calls a number of other → Continue reading “Restarting Individual Services or the Entire HDP Stack in the Hortornworks Virtual Sandbox”
It is often helpful to write search and replace commands that save segments of the matched text to use in the replacement string.
Source text:
This is some text (we want to change) with a phone number (301) 555-1234.
We want to remove the parenthesis, but only from the phone number string.In this example we have a text file that has a phone number in it and we want to remove the parenthesis that surround ONLY the area code → Continue reading “Vim Search and Replacing with Backreferences”