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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am new to korn shell and slowly learning. Is there a way to have a parent script prompt for input and then execute a child script and return the output then move forward and ask for more input and then execute the next child script? I think the answer is no but thought i would ask. (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: cptkirkh
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
i made a gnuplot script which accepts a filename as parameter (using gnuplot -e) now i want to run this script from a shell script, the correct command (with a concrete parameter) looks like this:
gnuplot -e 'name="filename.dat;col=2"' gplscript.gpl
my shell script looks like this:
... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: franko007
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a file which contains a list of paths separated by a new line character.
e.g
/some/path/to/a/file.png
/some/path to/another/file.jpeg
/some path/to yet/another/file
Notice that these paths may contain metacharacters, the spaces for example are also not escaped.
If I wanted... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: cue
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Could some one tell me the difference btw Bourne shell and the Kshell? Which is more flexible and reliable in terms of portability and efficiency. When i type the following command ..
$ echo $SHELL
yields me
/bin/sh
Does this tells me that I am in Bourne shell. If yes, how can i get... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: bobby1015
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All
I have writing a Korn Shell script to execute it on many of our servers. But some servers don't have Korn Shell installed, they use Borne Shell.
Some operations like calculation don't work :
cat ${file1} | tail -$((${num1}-${num2})) > ${file2}
Is it possible to activate Korn Shell... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: madmat
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I am using the KSH shell. I am facing a problem of escaping apostrophe('), that is occuring in a variable.
I used the following command, but in vain
item=`echo $item|sed 's/'/\'/g'`
this code replaces the occurance of ' in an xml file to apostrophe(') symbol.
The output of... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: mradul_kaushik
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
well i have this code here..and it works fine in kornshell..
#!/bin/ksh
home=c:/..../
input=$1
sed '1,3d' $input > $1.out
line=""
cat $1.out | while read a
do
line="$line $a"
done
echo $line > $1
rm $1.out
however...now i want it just in normal sh mode..how to convert this?... (21 Replies)
Discussion started by: forevercalz
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8. Solaris
When trying to escape special character * - it doesn't seem to work. In korn shell trying to store a local variable as follows
sample=test*
echo $sample - gets all the file names starting with test* , instead i want to literally store the value test* into a variable. I tried escaping with \, with... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: prekida
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
I want to be able to run a script on one server, that will spawn another shell which runs some commands on another server..
I have seen some code that may help - but I cant get it working as below:
spawn /usr/bin/ksh
send "telnet x <port_no>\r"
expect "Enter command: "
send "LOGIN:x:x;... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: frustrated1
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi I am new to shell programming. I need help to write a script to monitor a process on Sun OS. If the process fails then call a oracle procedure.
i check the process if running by typing
ps -ef | grep ESP | grep -v grep
root 29002 1 0 Mar 18 ? 7:20... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: gpanesar
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