What is a good way to iterate through a variable that has values seperated by a comma?
I thought about converting the commas to spaces, but that sounds inefficent to me. I am using KSH for my shell script. Thank you for any input you can provide.
For example:
Code:
X=55,22,34,61,18
for i in `echo $X | nawk -F , ....`; do
myfunction $i
done
First I' d like to say you guys are awesome. :)
I have a word document that I cut and paste into Textpad and it removed all the fancy formatting which is fine with me. I WinScp'd it to the box and and called it inputfile.txt.
Opened it in vi and don't see any special characters or stuff that... (2 Replies)
I want to write a script in KSH that takes the output of one command and redisplays it. Something like:
while true
do
read inpt
date +"%I:%M:%S %p <-> $inpt"
done
and then some how get the output of the ping command to redirect to the input of this script.
does that make sense? (2 Replies)
Hi,
Could anyone help me in changing a tabular format output to comma seperated file pls in K-sh. Its very urgent.
E.g : username empid
------------------------
sri 123
to
username,empid
sri,123
Thanks,
Hema:confused: (2 Replies)
Hello,
I am working with KSH on AIX and I have 2 files generated from different sources... as seen below:
FILE1 FILE2
AAA AAA@ABS0001C
BBB BBB@ABS0003D
CCC CCC@ABS0023A
DDD DDD@ABC0145D
EEE EEE@ABS0090A
FFF FFF@ABS0002A
GGG GGG@ABC0150D
HHH
FILE1 is main main data source,... (4 Replies)
Hello,
I've got a KSH which I use to monitor processes then email me when complete. I pass the process name to the script and the update interval.
Does anyone know how I can get this to execute in the background. I can't use 'scriptname &' as it starts in the background before reading in my... (3 Replies)
Hello all,
I am working on a script and have the first part solved of numerical input validation. Below the code validates that the input is a numerical value between 100 and 1000. If not, it errors out. Now I need to be able to read values separated by a comma. For example, instead of my... (5 Replies)
Hi all,
I'm trying to get a bash script working for a program (bowtie) which takes a list of input files (*.fastq) and assembles them to an output file (outfile.sam). All the .fastq files are in one folder in my home directory (~/infiles).
The problem is that the 'bowtie' requires that... (7 Replies)
Hi All,
I have line
,A,FDRM0002,12/21/2017,,0.961751583,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
it contains date in mm/dd/yyyy format i want to change this to yyyymmdd format using perl.
Use code tags, thanks. (8 Replies)
Hi
I'm looking to write a simple ksh loop reading user input (and write it to a file) until the user enters QUIT at which point I want it to continue.
Does anyone have an example of this type of loop?
Any help much appreciated
Cheers (2 Replies)
Hello all
I'm looking to write a simple script (ksh/sh/bsh) to read user input and write it to a file (adding each time) until the user enters QUIT at which point I'm hoping to ask some more questions.
Any help much apprecited (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Grueben
2 Replies
LEARN ABOUT X11R4
suspend
suspend(1) User Commands suspend(1)NAME
suspend - shell built-in function to halt the current shell
SYNOPSIS
sh
suspend
csh
suspend
ksh
suspend
DESCRIPTION
sh
Stops the execution of the current shell (but not if it is the login shell).
csh
Stop the shell in its tracks, much as if it had been sent a stop signal with ^Z. This is most often used to stop shells started by su.
ksh
Stops the execution of the current shell (but not if it is the login shell).
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO csh(1), kill(1), ksh(1), sh(1), su(1M), attributes(5)SunOS 5.10 15 Apr 1994 suspend(1)