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Gave a thumbs up as well. Definitely appreciate the feedback and excellent discussion.

Thanks for the reply. Appreciate it.

Hi. I'd like to remove all values in a string variable that also exist in a second variable. What is the appropriate approach to take here? I can use a 'For' loop and check each element and then...

I can only imagine I somehow pressed shift alt (on a mac) along with - when typing that in. It was the only place it occurred. It's great to now have an approach for working this out. Thanks guys.

That's brilliant. I hadn't seen the en-dash but it explains everything perfectly. Thank you so much for clearing this up.

It's caused when the first character in the options field is a dash. I'm calling the script from the command line. The script was edited using vi. Here's the full output with debug when I use...

Yes indeed there is some old code preceding this that reads in the params from the command line:


while [ -n "$1" ]; do
case $1 in
-username) if [ "`echo $2 | grep...

Hi. Can somebody please show me an example of how to use getopts to assign a variable if it's been passed into the script but to set a default if no value has been passed in? And also how to handle a...

Looks like it's UTF-8. Any idea how can I get rid of this hidden character?


+ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"...

Hi. I'm getting the following hidden characters \u[2013]at the start of a string after I pass in variables from the command line. I only noticed this when I set -x in my KSH script. Can anybody tell...

yep ... that does the job. Many thanks.

Thanks Don. But how do I read the parameters into that case statement from a variable set within the script rather than the command line?

Hi. I have a piece of code that reads and parses command line options. I'd like to alter it slightly to read from a string (that's set elsewhere in the script) rather than directly from the command...

Hi Jim. Actually I originally only wanted to check that the dir existed but then had to change it to handle the possibility of multiple dirs with the same name in different directory trees. I don't...

Hi

Can somebody please show me how to check from within a KSH script if a directory exists on that same host when parts of the directory tree are unknown?

If these wildcard dirs were the only...

Works perfectly. Thank you very much.

Thanks Rudi. Getting the following when I run it from within a script (although it works on the cmdln):
./p.ksh: line 4: syntax error at line 5: `^' unexpected

yes, that works! :)
Thanks

Will the command set -- $OPTPARMS not push the values in $OPTPARMS back onto the input stack?

So the code in the first post will stay the same if I use this cmd before it?

Thanks Santiago. I need to pass in a variable into the while loop. The values in $OPTPARMS will change every run.
So set -- $OPTPARMS before the while loop should work, right?

Hi. I need to parse a string with several optional parameters such as the following:
PARAMS="-server testserver -type standby -host testhost1"

How can I parse this to place any values after...

Hi

The following code works when reading the arguments from the command line but fails when I try to read from a string. So this works


while [ -n "$1" ]; do
case $1 in
-dbversion)...

Thanks Jim. Unfortunately I get the following error when trying to create a hard link:
Invalid cross-device link

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Hi. Can somebody tell me if there's a way of creating a symbolic link from a directory on one filesystem to that on another that will allow a find command that doesn't use the -L param to locate a...

Hi

I'm running the following command to generate a random password in a KSH script on a RHEL Linux VM but for some reason the cmd is not being closed and it's causing problems on the host.
...