Hi Buddy,
Can any one help me to overcome from the below problem?
#/usr/bin/ksh
typeset -Z dd
dd=1
echo $dd
===========
out put for the above is 01
same script I'm migrating to bash but typeset -Z option is not found in bash, Pls get me the equivalent option in BASH
Thanks in... (1 Reply)
Hello,
I've written a script in KSH, but now it needs to run on a system without KSH, ie sh or bash etc, bash seems best bet, but the simplest of things don't seem to work..
The snippet below is the main issue, basically I'm reading from a dat file and putting fields into arrays..
Dat file... (5 Replies)
Hi,
I use AIX (ksh) and Linux (bash) servers. I'm trying to do scripts to will run in both ksh and bash, and most of the time it works. But this time I don't get it in bash (I'm more familar in ksh).
The goal of my script if to read a "config file" (like "ini" file), and make various report.... (2 Replies)
Hi guys...
I have a ksh shell by default, so when I login to my unix box, all my .profile statements gets executed(including the aliases).
But for some reasons(may be not comfortable using ksh), I would always switch to BASH(in the same session but as a child process) but in the process I am... (16 Replies)
hi
i was trying to optimize one script and i came across this problem .. i am putting some pseudo code here
$ >cat a.sh
ls | while read I
do
i=$(($i + 1))
done
echo "total no of files : "
$ >ksh a.sh
total no of files :
$ >bash a.sh
total no of files :
why is... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I've a general question regarding shell. I 've seen that every where i worked in production environment people are using ksh .. but i like to use .. bash .. is there any particular reason why hardcore sysadmins use ksh ? (8 Replies)
I'm a user on a fairly locked down sys V server. By default, I have ksh set as my default shell. I added to my .profile:
bash -o vi
so when I login, it goes into bash so I can take advantage of tab completion and use the up key to bring up previous commands. However, whenever I want to exit, I... (2 Replies)
Hi,
typeset -l sgf # all lowercase letters
typeset -u SGF # all uppercase letters
sgf=$1
SGF=$sgf
these lines used in my scripts . It ran fine in ksh but when we convert this to bash it erroring out.
I like to know what the use of typeset ??
Thanks & Regards
kanagaraj (3 Replies)
what is diff between KSH and Bash can you tell me some commands which run in either of two but not in both.
while doing normal shell programming I am unable to find diffrence between two (2 Replies)
I have a script in KSH and now need to incorporate this into another script which is in BASH. OUr script contains code like below in good number of places.
Eg: echo “A B C” | read VAR1 VAR2 VAR3
This works only in ksh and not in BASH. Please let me know
1. Which is the equivalent... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: cvsanthosh
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surfraw-update-path
SURFRAW-UPDATE-PATH(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation SURFRAW-UPDATE-PATH(1)NAME
surfraw-update-path - updates PATH in shell config files
SYNOPSIS
surfraw-update-path [-add] [-remove] [-check] [-sys] [-all] [-help] [-shell=SHELL]
DESCRIPTION
surfraw-update-path adds the surfraw elvi directory (/usr/lib/surfraw) to your PATH in your shell's config file.
Currently it supports bash, sh, csh, tcsh, ash, dash, ksh, pdksh, zsh, rc, and es
Don't forget to login again or source your login files for it to take effect.
OPTIONS -check
Checks to see if the surfraw config code is present. This is the default.
-add
Adds the surfraw config code.
-remove
Removes the surfraw config code
-sys
Updates the system-wide shell config instead of the user. Must be done as root.
-shell=SHELL
Selects the shell to configure. Defaults to the value of the $SHELL environment variable.
Currently supported shells are:
sh, ash, bash, dash, csh, tcsh, ksh, pdksh, zsh, rc, and es.
-all
Attempts to configure the startup files for all known shells
-help
Gives a usage message
RETURN VALUE -check returns 0 if the surfraw code is present in the file, 1 if it is not found, or 2 on error.
All other options return 0 on success, or 2 on error.
ENVIRONMENT
SHELL
Used to determine which shell to configure, if -shell is not given.
HOME
Used to find users config files.
ENV Used by posix-compliant shells to specify a startup rc file.
ZDOTDIR
Used to find user config files for zsh. If not set, defaults to HOME.
SEE ALSO surfraw(1), sh(1), ash(1), bash(1), dash(1), csh(1), tcsh(1), ksh(1), pdksh(1), zsh(1), rc(1), es(1)AUTHOR
Ian Beckwith <ianb@erislabs.net>
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