Thanks cbkihong, I saw that already, this would probably require fork(); but it won't work for me, at least in the way I wanted, I have arbitrary number of processes started via system command, and I can't use their PIDs, plus the execution of the subroutine call itself is successful, so I cannot do even :
I think I'll wait for STDIN interaction while "chomp"-ing the input, this should ensure that processes / SSH transfers in the background are done, assuming someone is looking at the external log file in real time.
Hello people,
I am using KSH and inside my script I do a cksum and check the status code to see whether the command sucessfully. Here even though the cksum fails due to file not existing the status returned is still 0 because the awk command worked fine. How do I capture just the status of the... (1 Reply)
Lets say a user starts a process (either a shell script or a Perl script) and before that process finishes, he logs out (either intentionaly or network problems or ...), does the process continu running ?
Default shell is Korn.
This is because at my job (being trained), there are tasks to run... (2 Replies)
HI ,
I am new to the perl , I am using a if condition and in that if condition i am checking 7 variables value. so it continue to second line .And if i user "\" for the continue line it showing error.
Example :
if(a >9 || b>8 || c> 10 \
d > 11)
{
print();
}
The above statement is... (3 Replies)
Hello All,
Good day! This is my first UNIX post. :D
Anyways, I would like to seek help from you guys if you know of any UNIX command that will skip a warning message once it is encountered but continue to run the execution.
Ok here's the situation in general:
An encypted file is sent to... (2 Replies)
Hello,
I'm writing script to parse configuration files in perl. I would like to enable regular expressions as part of configuration file. I.e I would like to enable the users to select files that will be proceeded by the script using regex. I was wondering, is it possible for the user to execute... (4 Replies)
Hi Friends,
Iam invoking another shell script to create B2k_session_id from my shell script.It is properly creating B2k_session_id and after creation control is coming out from the script and going to command prompt.The lines which are after the exectrusteduser.com sh.com are not executing..may... (5 Replies)
Hi all.
I have a script like this
function check_filesize {
filesize_1="$(ls -la "$1"|awk '{ print $5 }')"
sleep 123
filesize_2="$(ls -la "$1"|awk '{ print $5 }')"
if
then
echo "OK"
else
echo "NOT OK"
sleep 1234
check_filesize $1
fi
}
function check_TR {
chk="$(tail -1 $1|grep... (5 Replies)
Hi,
I am working on a file copier utility where I have written the copy commands to a batch file e.g. file_copier.bat which i pass to xargs command as follows.
cat file_copier.bat | xargs -n 1 -P 40
I also want to record the copy command status of each file/command in the form "command... (1 Reply)
Hi all,
I have a EFI disk and it is use in zfs pool.
partition> p
Volume: rpool
Current partition table (original):
Total disk sectors available: 1172107117 + 16384 (reserved sectors)
Part Tag Flag First Sector Size Last Sector
0 usr wm ... (8 Replies)