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It was very interesting for me to look at your code Perderabo. I also took a modular approach. Thank you

I've just written a test harness using ksh.

One of scripts weighed in at 1206 lines.

I came across Eric Raymonds 'Art of Unix programming' on line and he advises against excessively large...

thanks for your reply Deal_NoDeal.

The problem I'm getting is that I get 0.0 returned for all my %CPUs. AARGH!
I decided to use vmstat not mpstat as wasn't that interested in by processor just...

finger - who's on at the moment
/etc/password - who has access

I'd do it your way and test the return code from the previous script eg

ksh ./k1.sh

if [ $? -ne 0 ] ; then
TestRunResult=fail
...

You are inovking your script from the current working directory using ./
The other command could be picking up something from the path

I have run your script under bash and ksh and not got this...

Thanks for your command Sysgate it seems I get a lot of old processes that are hanging around such as

00:04:25 root Feb28 0.0 6245 1 ? /opt/IBM/db2/V8.1/bin/db2fmcd
00:03:55...

you're welcome.
sometimes it's easier when someone else does a cut down.
I'm guessing short circuit evaluation meant the whole expression wasn't evaluated
...

mmmmm you're right the exit should follow
I've just tested it using this
#!/usr/bin/ksh
{
set -x
arg=0
while [[ $arg -le 1 ]]
do
[ -d /cm/uat_releases/riab/uat/2345 ] || mkdir -p...

have you echoed $? to see what is returned?[ -d ${mk_backup_dir[$i]} ] || mkdir -p ${mk_backup_dir[$i]}
echo $?


You could also use debugging
#!/usr/bin/ksh
{
set -x
do
[ -d...

hi
i'm running a shell script that checks the amount of cpu idle either using /usr/bin/vmstat 1 2 or sar 1 2 (on unixware) before i run some tests(if cpu idle greater than 89 I run them).
...

hi
I'm experiencing disk full errors on one of my boxes and can't unzip an archive that contains tests to execute( last file in zip - a data file is truncated) I've tried df on the box with the...

i did not understand what NF was, now i do



NF will solve my problem
thank you vgersh99 you have been very helpful

yes my print field separator number was wrong :-) thanks for explaining it well
I will now put the values in an array, get size of array and from last array value get name of last directory.
I...

Sorry
I have used basename foo2 and it returns foo2

I did not see the NF on the end - now I get 6 (yes 6!) returned to this script
dir=/home/foo1/foo2
splitit=`echo $dir | awk -F '/' '{print...

thank you for reply vgersh99 I am on Linux but '/' returns blank in inline awk

I look at basename, but is it only for directory name that you know already as argument passed?

thanks

Hi
I'm trying to split a dir listing
eg
/home/foo1/foo2
I'm using ksh

I've tried
dir=/home/foo1/foo2
splitit=`echo $dir | awk -F '\/' '{print $1}'`
echo $splitit

nothing is output! ...

ok solved it
changed /etc/sysinfo/clock setting to
TIMEZONE="UTC"
DEFAULT_TIMEZONE="UTC"
and rebooted shutdown -r now

hi sorry for delay in replying

SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 (i586) - Kernel 2.6.5-7.191-default

I have /etc/sysconfig and clock but not setclock

The person who set up this sys originally...

Hi
I'm trying to change my sys clock from PST to UTC.

I've read the man date page
it helpfully says :-
-u, --utc, --universal
print or set Coordinated Universal Time

as root I have...

Hi shereenmotor
thank you, this works from command line but does not from within the shell script.
I think i will just implement it differently
thank u for your time

Hi shereenmotor
thank you
without redirect to txt file i get the dir listing echoed back to me.

when I keep the redirect I get no error message at all and nothing is written to my dirList.txt...

hi
I'm trying to query a directory, check it's the right directory, return the results into a text file, put text file into an array and navigate the subdirectories and delete contents.

find...