hello....very new user to unix...and i have a question..i am not sure if there is such a thing
For example...the user is asked if he likes Bananas....if he says yes....
echo You like Bananas $name
at the end of the script it echos all that the user has entered so they can read it....
but... (1 Reply)
I am running on HPUX using ksh.
I have a script that uses a loop within a loop, for some reason the script seems to hang on a particuliar record. The record is fine and hits the condition in Blue. If I kill the 1st loop process the script continues on with no problem.
Begin code>
<Some... (8 Replies)
I'm trying to create a loop that will prompt the user for 15 values, not forcing them to enter all 15. If the user enters through one or more of the prompts the null value needs to be converted to 0, otherwise set the parameter = to the value entered:
ex.
Please enter file no #1: 17920
... (4 Replies)
Hi,
how can I use "for" to have two loops :
this is my script :
for i in (A B C)
do
for j in (a b c)
do
echo $i$j
done
done
#End
I want to print out
Aa
Ab
Ac ....
But I have error message :
syntax error at line 1 : `(' unexpected
Many thanks before.
How should I use "for" ?? (2 Replies)
I am traversing down a list, and I am not quite sure how to tell the loop to break when it's done going through the file.
#!/bin/sh
while :
do
read list <&3
echo $list
done
is the code. The file "list" is simply
5
4
3
2
1
any advice on how to break the loop after the file is... (1 Reply)
#!/bin/bash
IFS=$'\n'
A= a c b t g j i e d
B= t y u i o p
counter=0
found=""
for i in $(cat $A)
do
for j in $(cat $B)
do
if
then
found="yes"
fi
done
if
then (1 Reply)
Hello,
I'm not sure if this is more appropriate for the 'unix for dummies' or the 'unix for experts' forum because I'm new to this forum and this is the second topic I've discussed, but if you could let me know which one was more appropriate for something like this, please do!
So in tr (an... (2 Replies)
I'm trying to understand better the while and until loops, can someone help me with this example?
#!/bin/bash
# Listing the planets.
for planet in Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto
do
echo $planet # Each planet on a separate line.
done
echo; echo
for... (3 Replies)
Why wont my for statements work? Im trying to get this script to swich to a user an if you put in a start/stop/or restart paramater to do just that for each user. I commented out the actual start/stop actions to test it just by using echos and not do anything hasty in the environment but it... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: LilyClaro
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LEARN ABOUT MINIX
tget
TGET(1) General Commands Manual TGET(1)NAME
tget - get termcap values
SYNOPSIS
tget [-flag id] [-num id] [-str id] [-goto col line] [[-echo] string]
DESCRIPTION
Tget allows shell scripts access to the termcap(3) functions. Flags, numbers and strings can be queried from the termcap database under
the entry denoted by the environment variable $TERM.
OPTIONS -flag id
Set the exit status to zero if the flag id is set. All other options except -echo set the exit status to id being available or not.
The last option sets the final exit code.
-num id
Print the value of the numeric variable id.
-str id
Print the value of the string variable id.
-goto col line
Generates instructions to go to the given column and line if the cm capability exists.
-echo string
Prints string. Any other argument that does not start with a dash is also printed.
EXAMPLE
Try this: tget -str so 'Reverse Video' -str se
ENVIRONMENT
TERM Terminal type.
TERMCAP Path to the termcap database, by default /etc/termcap:/usr/etc/termcap.
SEE ALSO termcap(3).
DIAGNOSTICS
Tget will fail immediately with a descriptive message if the termcap entry can't be found.
AUTHOR
Kees J. Bot (kjb@cs.vu.nl)
TGET(1)