1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I did a search for this topic but I couldn't find it and I was sure I have seen something similar before (hard because I am not sure of the criteria for the keywords) What I was looking for was to be able to echo a message to the screen from a bash.sh script at the same time logging it to a... (2 Replies)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

is it possible to echo 'some text' every 10 minutes on my screen continues , without cron. (1 Reply)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

I'm looking at my bash man page and I'm expecting to find some option that I can use to make it echo every command that it executes. The description of --verbose was pretty terse! Is --verbose supposed to make it echo every command it executes? My bash script script (named ws2) contains a... (1 Reply)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi Everyone! I just want to know how to set $HOME. I cant see $HOME in my profile. Below is my profile. export PATH=.:/usr/bin:/etc:/usr/sbin:/usr/ucb:$HOME/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/sbin:/mai lservice/sybase/12.5/OCS-12_5/bin:/mailservice/sybase/config:. #export $PATH export... (2 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Please help me to simplify my below script. #!/bin/bash LOG_FILE=/tmp/log.txt echo "Hello" echo "Hello" >> /tmp/log.txt Is there anyway, that I can echo "Hello" to both screen and file with one single echo command ? (6 Replies)

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

This is on a Solaris 9 box, but I feel like a noob, so I am posting here. When I echo $PATH I get a lot of duplicate paths and extra stuff I don't need. What I want is just what I set up in my home dir under .profile My login shell=/bin/bash I checked the following and there are no path... (1 Reply)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have two text files, each of then only containing ONE line and NO carraige return or white space at the end...how do I echo both of these text files to the screen without putting an extra line? I want to do this from the command line. file1.txt: this is file1.txt 1 file2.txt: this is... (4 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, i need to execute echo command to write in a txt file on a remote machine. i did it in this way: ssh user@remotemachine "echo "put text here" > /home/user/myfile.txt" I tried to run the same command within a detached screen in this way: ssh user@remotemachine screen -dm "echo "put... (3 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

In shellscript, I want to display echo message in console and in the log file. please help me to display this message in two places. I am using below statment to display messsage, but it is displaying in log file only. echo "Server Already running" >> serverlog 2>&1 (3 Replies)

10. HP-UX

Hi I need to set $HISTFILE for a user with no home directory. How to go about it because this user does not have a .profilefile. (5 Replies)