I have never seen this in any Korn shell I've used (and I've used many versions).
What OS are you using (uname -a) and what version of ksh are you using (ksh --version)?
Note, however, that unless you're using an OS that treats //xxx as a reference to machine xxx on your local network, the extra leading / won't have any adverse effects.
If you change the script to:
does it do the same thing?
Probably a very straight forward question but please be easy on me, I am v. new to UNIX!
A script that I have runs the line
tmp=`pwd -H`
It works fine, but I needed to make a couple of other changes to the script, nowhere near this line but now this line reports:
pwd: A specified flag... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I was trying to customize this archaic HP-UX box. only shell available is ksh and that too seems to be pretty old and doesn't completely conform to what I read on the web about ksh. Anyway here are my issues:
- I wanted to have a dynamic title on xterm or dtterm. I put the following lines... (2 Replies)
As you are probably aware, $# indicates the number of parameters passed into a korn shell script. But this appears to hang around for
sunsequent runs...????
A simple script:-
#!/usr/bin/ksh
echo "#parameters $#"
echo "\$1 $1"
echo "\$2 $2"
I run the script with 0 parameters (all fine)
#... (7 Replies)
Hi,
I should replace the string DIR_ZERO in the file FILE_OLD with the current directory path in FILE_NEW by using something like this:
sed "s/DIR_ZERO/'$(pwd)'/" FILE_OLD > FILE_NEW
but it doesn't work and I don't understand why...:confused:
Thanks in advance!!!
Giordano Bruno (2 Replies)
Hi,
Can you tell me if there is a command such as pwd which does not give me the absolute NFS pathname i.e. it starts with .autofs? At the moment on the unix when I use the 'pwd' command it always gives me the nfs pathname rather thanthe local pathname of which is what i want, is there an... (4 Replies)
currently, my samba login works just fine. i want my clients to use aix5.3 account to login to samba so they don't have to change samba pwd and aix pwd. i googled, and vi /usr/lib/smb.conf per some of knowledge base, but i could not get to work.
aix5.3 and samba 3.0.24.0
thanks in advace..... (2 Replies)
Hi Everyone,
I am confused on why the below snippet of code is not working as I intend it to do. I have googled and confirmed that "exit" is supposed to abort the execution of the script regardless if the exit was called from inside a function, or the main body of the script.
log_and_die() {
... (3 Replies)
I'm getting different behaviour when executing below script in debug option.
$ cat ss.ksh
ff=$(pwd)
echo " ff : $ff"
$ ksh ss.ksh
ff : /tmp
$ ksh -x ss.ksh
+ + pwd
ff=
+ echo ff :
ff :
I was getting this behaviour in my actuall script i'm able to reproduce this in simple script... (4 Replies)
Hi all,
Need some help in the following code. (Running this code at cygwin in windows vista)
cat /home/ebanpan/Input_Logs/*.log > /home/ebanpan/Input_Logs/input.log
sed '/^Total/d;/^Bye/d;/^Output has been logged/d' /home/ebanpan/Input_Logs/input.log > /home/ebanpan/output.log
this code... (6 Replies)
Dear all,
I am trying to use 'pwd' command in following way.
current_directory == /dirA/dirB/test/dirC
if ; then
do this
fi
I am not sure how to pass this in command way. Please help!
thanking you,
emily (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: emily
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echo
echo(1B) SunOS/BSD Compatibility Package Commands echo(1B)NAME
echo - echo arguments to standard output
SYNOPSIS
/usr/ucb/echo [-n] [argument]
DESCRIPTION
echo writes its arguments, separated by BLANKs and terminated by a NEWLINE, to the standard output.
echo is useful for producing diagnostics in command files and for sending known data into a pipe, and for displaying the contents of envi-
ronment variables.
For example, you can use echo to determine how many subdirectories below the root directory (/) is your current directory, as follows:
o echo your current-working-directory's full pathname
o pipe the output through tr to translate the path's embedded slash-characters into space-characters
o pipe that output through wc -w for a count of the names in your path.
example% /usr/bin/echo "echo $PWD | tr '/' ' ' | wc -w"
See tr(1) and wc(1) for their functionality.
The shells csh(1), ksh(1), and sh(1), each have an echo built-in command, which, by default, will have precedence, and will be invoked if
the user calls echo without a full pathname. /usr/ucb/echo and csh's echo() have an -n option, but do not understand back-slashed escape
characters. sh's echo(), ksh's echo(), and /usr/bin/echo, on the other hand, understand the black-slashed escape characters, and ksh's
echo() also understands a as the audible bell character; however, these commands do not have an -n option.
OPTIONS -n Do not add the NEWLINE to the output.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWscpu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO csh(1), echo(1), ksh(1), sh(1), tr(1), wc(1), attributes(5)NOTES
The -n option is a transition aid for BSD applications, and may not be supported in future releases.
SunOS 5.11 3 Aug 1994 echo(1B)