I'm a Unix newbie.
In a shell-script, is there any way to accept keyboard input (via STDIN) without having it display on the screen? I know keying in a login password sort of does this by replacing what you key with astericks (*) but I believe that's a "C" routine. I'd like to be able to... (2 Replies)
Hi,
First of all i am using solaris 10. I want to write a script that ask user to enter password and read the character input from keyboard. The ask to re-enter the password and then if they are match it will accept.
But my problem is I want to echo a '*' character instead of the character I... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I am passing the file filename to a program and I have to use the "<" sign:
program < filename
Inside the program I would like to assign the string "filename" to a variable var.
I can't do that with "var=$(echo $1)" because of the "<" sign.
Removing the "<" sign would work for echo,... (13 Replies)
Hi guys,
I am new to AWK and unix scripting. Please see below my problem and let me know if anyone you can help.
I have 2 input files (example given below)
Input file 2 is a standard file (it will not change) and we have to get the name (second column after comma) from it and append it... (5 Replies)
Hi,
I have a test.txt and would like to put in a different file but while putting in the other file, blank spaces are missing.
$ indicates blank spaces
filename: test.txt:
USA$$$840$$$$
Desired output
USA$$$840$$$$
Current output as per the following code.
while read j;
do... (3 Replies)
Hi Guys,
I have a big file like this. It has cache group line ( the bold lines ) and then followed by 10 status lines showing either Compelte or Failed. This pattern repeats several time. We can assume all the status lines have either Complete or Failed status for that Cache Group line.
I... (13 Replies)
in cygwin, cron-config will ask two inputs: yes or no.
1st question, answer is no
2nd question, answer is yes
my script:
echo no | cron-config
how do i pass yes to 2nd question ? (4 Replies)
Hi,
i have one problem with this script:
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cat hostid_gathering
#!/bin/bash
cat /home/user1/ip_switch | while read LINE; do
echo $LINE
/home/user1/expect_script2
done
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cat /home/user1/expect_script2
#!/usr/bin/expect... (6 Replies)
stty(2) System Calls Manual stty(2)NAME
stty(), gtty() - control terminal device (Bell Version 6 compatibility)
SYNOPSIS
Remarks
These system calls are preserved for backward compatibility with Bell Version 6. They provide as close an approximation as possible to the
old Version 6 functions. All new code should use the and calls described in termio(7).
DESCRIPTION
For certain status settings and status inquiries about terminal devices, the functions and are equivalent to
and
respectively (see ioctl(2) and termio(7).
RETURN VALUE
and return the following values:
Successful completion.
Failure.
is set to indicate the error.
ERRORS
If or fails, is set to one of the following values:
[EBADF] is not a valid file descriptor.
[EFAULT] points to an invalid address.
WARNINGS
Obsolescent Interfaces
and are to be obsoleted at a future date.
SEE ALSO stty(1), exec(2), ioctl(2), sttyV6(7), termio(7), tty(7).
TO BE OBSOLETED stty(2)