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Operating Systems Solaris Substitution not working in ksh Post 302114039 by pressy on Thursday 12th of April 2007 05:52:57 AM
Old 04-12-2007
the default ksh on solaris is a posix ksh88 (/usr/bin/ksh), you can see the version in vi mode with "<esc> <ctl> v"

but there is another ksh on solaris, the ksh93 with X, Xt, Xm and CDE functions called dtksh (/usr/dt/bin/dtksh). here it works:

Code:
pressy@jumpy # /usr/bin/ksh -o vi
pressy@jumpy #
pressy@jumpy # Version M-11/16/88i
pressy@jumpy # fname="EOA.dmp"
pressy@jumpy # echo $fname
EOA.dmp
pressy@jumpy # logname=${fname/.dmp/.log}
/usr/bin/ksh: logname=${fname/.dmp/.log}: bad substitution
pressy@jumpy #
pressy@jumpy # /usr/dt/bin/dtksh -o vi
pressy@jumpy # Version M-12/28/93d
pressy@jumpy #
pressy@jumpy # fname="EOA.dmp"
pressy@jumpy # echo $fname
EOA.dmp
pressy@jumpy # logname=${fname/.dmp/.log}
pressy@jumpy # echo $logname
EOA.log
pressy@jumpy #

regards pressy
 

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jfs_logdump

jfs_logdump(8)						  JFS utility - journal log dump					    jfs_logdump(8)

NAME

       jfs_logdump - dump a JFS formatted device's journal log

SYNOPSIS

       jfs_logdump [ -a ] device

DESCRIPTION

       jfs_logdump dumps the contents of the journal log from the specified JFS formatted device into output file ./jfslog.dmp.

       device is the special file name corresponding to the actual device from which the journal log will be dumped (e.g.  /dev/hdb1 ).

       jfs_logdump must be run as root.

OPTIONS

       -a     Dump the entire contents of the journal log instead of just the committed transactions since the last synch point.

EXAMPLE

       Dump the entire JFS journal log from the 3rd partition of the 2nd hard disk into ./jfslog.dmp:

	      jfs_logdump -a /dev/hdb3

REPORTING BUGS

       If you find a bug in JFS or jfs_logdump, please report it via the bug tracking system ("Report Bugs" section) of the JFS project web site:
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       Please send as much pertinent information as possible, including any jfs_logdump error messages and the complete output of running jfs_fsck
       with the -v option on the JFS device.

SEE ALSO

       jfs_fsck(8), jfs_mkfs(8), jfs_fscklog(8), jfs_tune(8), jfs_debugfs(8)

AUTHORS

       Barry Arndt  (barndt@us.ibm.com)
       William Braswell, Jr.

       jfs_logdump is maintained by IBM.
       See the JFS project web site for more details:
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