I have a script /root/asas with following contents.
What I need is when "cat" does not find sandra in /etc/passwd, it should print "Sandra is NOT in /etc/passwd". But this is not giving correct result. See below.
Hello All,
I have a script that will email out if the email address is specified as parameter 1.
I am using ksh, and then tried the following :
email=$1
Following did not work, I am getting error
test -z $email
test ${email:=" ") -eq " "
test -n $email
test ${?email}
What... (4 Replies)
Hi
I am writing a bash script and would like to check is a variable contains a . or not
ex.
a=102 output ok
a=1.02 output not ok
Many thanks, (3 Replies)
Hi all,
to check that a variable is not empty, I usually do:
if ; then...
or
if ; then...
what if I have a serie of variables and want to do the same test on all of them. How to do this in a single if statement?
thank you (1 Reply)
hi to all,
i want to check the value of a variable that it contains characters.
for example i try the following:
if then .........
i just want to check that in the specific line that is a variable called "passline" has the entry "password". But it can contain also other characters in the... (4 Replies)
I have seen many posts for this sort of problem but I just did not know how to use it for my issue. A number is assigned to a variable and I wanted to check if it is a zero or non zero.
Example of my numbers are below:
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000... (8 Replies)
#!/bin/sh
echo "Running Script to capture ORACLE Erros"
# Change Directory to the actual logs path
cd /home/nv8510/lognew
err_var=`grep -in "ORA-" *`
if then
echo "THESE ARE THE ORACLE ERROR OCCURED"
echo "$err_var"
echo... (7 Replies)
hi,
i want to check whether a a variable contains some value or is empty in a shell script. so if the variable contains some value i want to do some job and if the variable doesnt contain any value then i need to skip that job.
here is a sample script
read_filenames.sh contains
... (5 Replies)
Hi people,
I would like to start a review of my config variable to check whether they have been changed and if not then there is only an echo. If they have been changed to my other commands are executed.
I hope you can help me.
with best regards
JPad
edit:
here my code
if ;... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: JPad
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vipw,vigr - edit the password, group or shadow file
SYNOPSIS
vipw [-g|-p|-s]
vigr [-g|-p|-s]
DESCRIPTION
vipw/vigr edits the passwd,group or shadow file after setting the appropriate locks to prevent file corruption. vipw edits per default the
/etc/passwd file, vigr the /etc/group file. Extended attributes (like ACLs or security attributes) are preserved.
ENVIRONMENT
EDITOR If the environment variable exists, the editor specified by this variable is used instead of the default vi(1).
OPTIONS -g, --group
Edit /etc/group.
-p, --passwd
Edit /etc/passwd.
-s, --shadow
Edit /etc/shadow.
-u, --usage
Print a usage message and exit.
--help
Print a more verbose help text and exit.
Print version information and exit.
FILES
/etc/group - group account information
/etc/passwd - user account information
/etc/shadow - shadow account information
SEE ALSO attr(5), passwd(1), passwd(5), shadow(5), vi(1)AUTHOR
Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>
pwdutils October 2003 vipw(8)