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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Help-prompt for path and take this as input in find command Post 302155205 by bsandeep_80 on Thursday 3rd of January 2008 06:16:13 AM
Old 01-03-2008
This is how my program looks can you please tell me why i am getting errors when i run the script as

$./sandeep.sh
./sandeep_new.sh: line 12: read: `dir?what is the path that you want to find ?': not a valid identifier

./sandeep_new.sh: line 13: read: `dir?Please specify a valid path to search ?': not a valid identifier
./sandeep_new.sh: line 23: syntax error near unexpected token `else'
./sandeep_new.sh: line 23: `else'


#!/bin/ksh

NULL=""; export NULL #If the user specifies NULL value

echo "The cvs file script has started............................................"
read dir?"what is the path that you want to find ?"
read dir?"Please specify a valid path to search ?"

if [ "$dir" = "$NULL" ]; then
echo "Not a Valid path or path not specified by user,Do you wish to continue:"[Y/N]?""
read ans
case "$ans" in
y*|Y*)

read log?"Please specify a valid log file(ex:/logs/sandeep.log) that needs to created that will dump the results on the log file ?"

else
n*|N*)
echo exiting from program...;;
esac

if [ "$log" == "$NULL" ]; then
echo "Not a Valid path or path not specified by user,Do you wish to continue:"[Y/N]?""
read ans
case "$ans" in
y*|Y*)

read days?"Please specify the valid number as the number of days for the serach ?"
if [ "$days" == "$NULL" ]; then
echo "Not a Valid path or path not specified by user,Do you wish to continue:"[Y/N]?""

read ans
case "$ans" in
y*|Y*)

find $dir -ctime +$days -type f -exec ls -l {} \; > $log

else
n*|N*)
echo exiting from program...;;
esac


fi
fi

fi



exit
Last edited by bsandeep_80; 01-03-2008 at 07:22 AM..
 

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LEARN ABOUT SUSE

ocf_heartbeat_sapinstance

OCF_HEARTBEAT_SAPINS(7) 					OCF resource agents					   OCF_HEARTBEAT_SAPINS(7)

NAME

       ocf_heartbeat_SAPInstance - Manages a SAP instance

SYNOPSIS

       SAPInstance [start | stop | status | monitor | promote | demote | validate-all | meta-data | methods]

DESCRIPTION

       Resource script for SAP. It manages a SAP Instance as an HA resource.

SUPPORTED PARAMETERS

       InstanceName
	   The full qualified SAP instance name. e.g. P01_DVEBMGS00_sapp01ci (required, string, no default)

       DIR_EXECUTABLE
	   The full qualified path where to find sapstartsrv and sapcontrol. (optional, string, no default)

       DIR_PROFILE
	   The full qualified path where to find the SAP START profile. (optional, string, no default)

       START_PROFILE
	   The name of the SAP START profile. (optional, string, no default)

       START_WAITTIME
	   After that time in seconds a monitor operation is executed by the resource agent. Does the monitor return SUCCESS, the start is handled
	   as SUCCESS. This is useful to resolve timing problems with e.g. the J2EE-Addin instance. (optional, string, default 3600)

       AUTOMATIC_RECOVER
	   The SAPInstance resource agent tries to recover a failed start attempt automaticaly one time. This is done by killing runing instance
	   processes and executing cleanipc. (optional, boolean, default false)

       MONITOR_SERVICES
	   (optional, string, default disp+work|msg_server|enserver|enrepserver|jcontrol|jstart)

       ERS_InstanceName
	   (optional, string, no default)

       ERS_START_PROFILE
	   (optional, string, no default)

       PRE_START_USEREXIT
	   The full qualified path where to find a script or program which should be executed before this resource gets started. (optional,
	   string, no default)

       POST_START_USEREXIT
	   The full qualified path where to find a script or program which should be executed after this resource got started. (optional, string,
	   no default)

       PRE_STOP_USEREXIT
	   The full qualified path where to find a script or program which should be executed before this resource gets stopped. (optional,
	   string, no default)

       POST_STOP_USEREXIT
	   The full qualified path where to find a script or program which should be executed after this resource got stopped. (optional, string,
	   no default)

SUPPORTED ACTIONS

       This resource agent supports the following actions (operations):

       start
	   Starts the resource. Suggested minimum timeout: 180.

       stop
	   Stops the resource. Suggested minimum timeout: 240.

       status
	   Performs a status check. Suggested minimum timeout: 60.

       monitor
	   Performs a detailed status check. Suggested minimum timeout: 60. Suggested interval: 120.

       promote
	   Promotes the resource to the Master role. Suggested minimum timeout: 320.

       demote
	   Demotes the resource to the Slave role. Suggested minimum timeout: 320.

       validate-all
	   Performs a validation of the resource configuration. Suggested minimum timeout: 5.

       meta-data
	   Retrieves resource agent metadata (internal use only). Suggested minimum timeout: 5.

       methods
	   Suggested minimum timeout: 5.

EXAMPLE

       The following is an example configuration for a SAPInstance resource using the crm(8) shell:

	   primitive example_SAPInstance ocf:heartbeat:SAPInstance 
	     params 
	       InstanceName=string 
	     op monitor depth="0" timeout="60" interval="120"

SEE ALSO

       http://www.linux-ha.org/wiki/SAPInstance_(resource_agent)

AUTHOR

       Linux-HA contributors (see the resource agent source for information about individual authors)

resource-agents 1.0.3						    07/05/2010						   OCF_HEARTBEAT_SAPINS(7)
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