To be honest i think you should change your programs logic completely: You enter a character (or word), some values are legal, ALL others are not. You do not need the functionality of a while-loop at all, so why should you use it?
How about the following, which is easily extensible:
This should also be easier to read and to maintain.
If you want to use the code part as a device to process the commandline you could also resort to the getopts-program. Have a look at the manpage for it and if this fits your requirements and you still have problems applying it come back and ask again.
I am trying to take input from a file and direct it into a bash script. This script is meant to be a foreach loop. I would like the script to process each item in the list one by one and direct the output to a file.
# cat 1loop
#!/bin/bash
# this 2>&1 to redirect STDERR & STDOUT to file... (4 Replies)
Hi All,
I wrote one simple for loop shell script which prints number..but this loop is infinite...but its taking lot of CPU (15.7) %. if i am using sleep cmd then cpu usage become 0.4 %. Is there anyway to reduce this CPU usage without using sleep cmd?
i dont want 2 use sleep cmd... (7 Replies)
I'm new from UNIX scripting. Please help.
I have about 10,000 files from the $ROOTDIR/scp/inbox/string1 directory to compare with the 50 files from /$ROOTDIR/output/tma/pnt/bad/string1/ directory and it takes about 2 hours plus to complete the for loop. Is there a better way to re-write the... (5 Replies)
I'd like to
1. Check and compare the 10,000 pnt files contains single record from the /$ROOTDIR/scp/inbox/string1 directory against 39 bad pnt files from the /$ROOTDIR/output/tma/pnt/bad/string1 directory based on the fam_id column value start at position 38 to 47 from the record below. Here is... (1 Reply)
Gurus,
I need to read a line from a file and strip the characters from it and compare the stripped value with the value I pass to the script while executing it. Below is the code for the same. But when i execute the code, it is throwing an error.
#!/bin/ksh
. /home/.i_env
... (14 Replies)
How do I go about amending this simple script that prompts for a yes/no response so that if neither Y or N are entered it will loop back back to the original prompt
#!/bin/ksh
echo "Enter yes of no"
read answer
if
then
echo "You selected yes"
elif
then
echo "You selected no"
elif... (5 Replies)
I have below files under dir_a and dir_b and i want to sort out number of dir_a and dir_b files seperately and if i do the grep it should retrun 2 files in dir_a and 1 file in dir_b.
/dir_a/12345678
/dir_a/87654321
/dir_a/dir_b/12345687
But i am getting cat file|grep dir_a|wc -l
3... (6 Replies)
Hi,
I am new to unix/linux scripting.
I have a text file, listlib.txt where the content:
lib1_23
lib34_a
ab_li_lab
I need to generate a file (.log) of each cell. I am planning to create a (.csh) script that will have for loop with variable taken from listlib.txt. As for now, i have no... (4 Replies)
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print-service
print-service(1M) System Administration Commands print-service(1M)NAME
print-service - select, report, import, export active print service on a system
SYNOPSIS
print-service [-s service [-m] | -q | -e file | -i file]
DESCRIPTION
The print-service utility manages print service selection, as well as export and import of basic print queue configuration.
Only a user root privileges or with the Printer Management profile can change the active print service or import print queue configuration.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-s service
Select the active print service for on a host. service can be one of lp or cups.
-m
Migrate print queue configuration during print service selection.
-q
Report the active print service on a host.
-e file
Export basic print queue configuration to a file.
-i file
Import basic print queue configuration from a file.
EXAMPLES
Example 1 Selecting a Print Service
The following command selects the CUPS print service as the active print service on a host.
# print-service -s cups
Example 2 Reporting the Active Print Service
The following command reports the active print service on a host.
# print-service -q
Example 3 Exporting a Print Queue Configuration
The following command exports the print queue configuration from the active print service.
# print-service -e /tmp/queues
Example 4 Importing a Print Queue Configuration
The following command imports the print queue configuration to the active print service.
# print-service -i /tmp/queues
EXIT STATUS
0
Successful completion.
non-zero
An error occurred.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWpcu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface Stability |Obsolete |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO intro(1), attributes(5)NOTES
The print queue configuration saved and restored during export, import, and migration is limited to queue name and device name. It is
likely that further configuration changes will be required before imported or migrated print queues become usable.
SunOS 5.11 18 Mar 2008 print-service(1M)