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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Capturing shell script command output Post 100740 by Perderabo on Wednesday 1st of March 2006 03:12:02 PM
Old 03-01-2006
What language you you trying to use? In the bourne, ksh, bash type shells, you do stuff like this:
FILE=/tmp/output.txt
date > $FILE
This does not change the value of FILE. In your first script you are using a here-document. The last line of your script is the end of the here-document. It does not need to be the end of the script. You can keep on going and do more stuff. Go to our FAQ section and read the article on automating ftp jobs. There are a lot of examples there.
 

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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS

shells

shells(4)							   File Formats 							 shells(4)

NAME

       shells - shell database

SYNOPSIS

       /etc/shells

DESCRIPTION

       The shells file contains a list of the shells on the system. Applications use this file to determine whether a shell is valid. See getuser-
       shell(3C). For each shell a single line should be present, consisting of the shell's path, relative to root.

       A hash mark (#) indicates the beginning of a comment; subsequent characters up to the end of the line are not interpreted by  the  routines
       which search the file. Blank lines are also ignored.

       The  following  default	shells are used by utilities: /bin/bash, /bin/csh, /bin/jsh, /bin/ksh, /bin/pfcsh, /bin/pfksh, /bin/pfsh, /bin/sh,
       /bin/tcsh,  /bin/zsh,  /sbin/jsh,  /sbin/sh,  /usr/bin/bash,  /usr/bin/csh,  /usr/bin/jsh,  /usr/bin/ksh,  /usr/bin/pfcsh,  /usr/bin/pfksh,
       /usr/bin/pfsh, and /usr/bin/sh, /usr/bin/tcsh, /usr/bin/zsh. Note that /etc/shells overrides the default list.

       Invalid shells in /etc/shells may cause unexpected behavior (such as being unable to log in by way of ftp(1)).

FILES

       /etc/shells	       lists shells on system

SEE ALSO

       vipw(1B), ftpd(1M), sendmail(1M), getusershell(3C), aliases(4)

SunOS 5.10							    4 Jun 2001								 shells(4)
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