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But am not getting the correct output if i use ls | grep "^sample$"

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Can someone help me in using awk or sed for finding out if the output contains a particular string.Because i cannot use * here in the for loop.

for example ,
if my output is
...

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Its SUSE linux .

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if i use for loop , the input variable dosnt have the line by...

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i use echo $IS_VAR only.

and the example is slightly modified here

its like,
IS_VAR=0
ls | while read input
do
if [ $input = "hi" ]
then
IS_VAR=1
echo $IS_VAR
break
fi...

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i have a variable which i would like to set inside an if block

for example
IS_VAR=0
if [ "true" = "true" ]
then
IS_VAR=1
fi
echo IS_VAR

the last echo statement gives 0.So...

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what is "^sample$" ? am not able to understand this.

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I have a line by line output as follows,for example output of ls

sample1
sample2
sample

i need to check if this output contains the exact string sample.If i use grep , it will...

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I am using getopt for both short and long options as below

SHORTOPTS="a:c"
LONGOPTS="alpha:,charlie"
OPTS=$(getopt -o $SHORTOPTS --longoptions $LONGOPTS -n "$progname" -- "$@")
eval...

Hi ,

I am using getopt for both short and long options as below

SHORTOPTS="a:c"
LONGOPTS="alpha:,charlie"
OPTS=$(getopt -o $SHORTOPTS --longoptions $LONGOPTS -n "$progname" -- "$@")
eval...

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I am using getopt for both short and long options as below

SHORTOPTS="a:c"
LONGOPTS="alpha:,charlie"
OPTS=$(getopt -o $SHORTOPTS --longoptions $LONGOPTS -n "$progname" -- "$@")
eval...

Thanks for the reply.

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Depending on the above output, i need to assign the separated values to...

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Thanks for the reply.But in this case , i dont know the no of string values(for the above case it is 3 but actual case it is not fixed) i will be getting.How can i handle that?

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I have a variable which has a list of string separated by comma.

for ex ,

Variable=/usr/bin,/usr/smrshbin,/tmp

How can i get the values between the commas separately using...

Thanks for the reply

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I want to redirect the standard output to standard error whenever an error occurs for ex
if [ a -eq 0 ]
then
echo right
else
echo wrong
fi

I want to redirect the wrong to...

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i need to run a command as root.Whoever executes the command ,i will check for a particular role if that is satisfied i have to make it to run as root.

Please help me to carry out this....

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i need to use --alternative option of getopt

for ex . getopt -o a:c: --alternative pw: -- "$@"

if i use like this, i am not getting any output.Please help me how to correct this.i...

yes but am actually accessing the arguments with the arg variable in a for loop.so how can i compare the value of the arg variable with "--"

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I need to check if a parameter provided at the command line is equal to --.How can i do that ? Please help me.


Thanks and Regards,
Padmini

HI,
Thanks.It worked.

Regards,
Padmini

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I am new to shell scripting.I tried adding an entry to the path variable like below

export PATH=$PATH:/opt/xxx/bin
But am getting an error invalid identifier /opt/xxx/bin

Can someone...

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I need to find the words that begin with a "-" letter .How can i do this in shell scripting? I tried using grep '[-]*'.But it is not working.Can i have a way of doing this?

Thanks in...

Thanks for the replies.Using getopts am facing a problem.for ex, if i have a command
listcert -t -k keystore -p password -l label.My optstring is tp:k:l: OPTIONS since t doesnt have any argument....

how can i use long options with -l option in getopt.Please give me an example.

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I am new to shell scripting.what it means using while with $@?what is the significance of $@?