And tidier still to avoid the rat's nest of test backticks echo.
This assumes some things about how $dow and $cld and $hot are set up; you might need to tweak this if they are not simply one-to-one, but you get the idea. This is IMHO much more readable, as well as more efficient.
If $dow is the numeric day of the week and the values of $cld and $hot are something like 7 (signifying Sunday) and 135 (Mon Wed Fri), then perhaps
Hello all,
I have a situation where I have a web root directory with a few thousand users spread out into 100 subdirectories in a 00/firstname.lastname, 01/firstname.lastname, etc. hierarchy. I suddenly need to make sure that each of these user directories contains a default index.html file... (6 Replies)
I need a way to grep -v a list of times/date from the output of postqueue -p that are a few hours old, in order to remove them with postsuper -d.
Right now I have a script that is deleting the previous day of messages left in the queue, which runs once each day.
I want to clean up the job and... (1 Reply)
Hallo,
I need to test a String (a special ip number-string).
So I want to run that:
ipadress=172.0.0.0
# for debugging:
echo $ipadress | egrep -e '172\.?\.??\.??$'
# the test that doesnt work
if test -z `echo $ipadress | egrep -e '172\.?\.??\.??$'` != ""
then
echo "match"
else... (1 Reply)
I'm very very new to shell scripting (about 4 hours)
i've google'd till i can't google no more
is it possible to have store values in a config file .e.g
/etc/foo.conf
data=/home/
mount=/dev/sda1
size=1GB
and access these values from a shell script but also
be able to use... (3 Replies)
Suppose I have a text file that contains the tags <foo> and <bar>. The text file can have unlimted occurances of <foo> and <bar> and looks somthing like this:
<foo>
Some
Text
<foo>
Some
Text
<bar>
Some
Text
<foo>
Some (1 Reply)
I'm not all that much of a newbie but I've not encountered this before. Happens both in Cygwin and in Mac OS X (Darwin):
cp -R /path/to/foo/.* /path/to/bar
(where directory 'bar' exists)
... seems to copy not only the contents of directory 'foo', but also other directories that are... (3 Replies)
Sometimes it works for me and sometimes I get this error:
syntax error on line 1, teletype
Basically I've got no idea whats going on, especially at the end of the command: bc
Any help is appreciated (1 Reply)
I am writing a BASH script to update a webserver and then restart Apache. It looks basically like this:
#!/bin/bash
rsync /path/on/local/machine/ foo.com:path/on/remote/machine/
ssh foo.com sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 reloadrsync and ssh don't prompt for a password, because I have DSA encryption... (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: fluoborate
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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS
noecho
echo(3XCURSES) X/Open Curses Library Functions echo(3XCURSES)NAME
echo, noecho - enable/disable terminal echo
SYNOPSIS
cc [ flag... ] file... -I /usr/xpg4/include -L /usr/xpg4/lib
-R /usr/xpg4/lib -lcurses [ library... ]
c89 [ flag... ] file... -lcurses [ library... ]
#include <curses.h>
int echo(void);
int noecho(void);
DESCRIPTION
The echo() function enables Echo mode for the current screen. The noecho() function disables Echo mode for the current screen. Initially,
curses software echo mode is enabled and hardware echo mode of the tty driver is disabled. The echo() and noecho() functions control soft-
ware echo only. Hardware echo must remain disabled for the duration of the application, else the behavior is undefined.
RETURN VALUES
Upon successful completion, these functions return OK. Otherwise, they return ERR.
ERRORS
No errors are defined.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface Stability |Standard |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|MT-Level |Unsafe |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO getch(3XCURSES), getstr(3XCURSES), initscr(3XCURSES), libcurses(3XCURSES), scanw(3XCURSES), attributes(5), standards(5)SunOS 5.11 5 Jun 2002 echo(3XCURSES)