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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting test: argument expected Post 302166308 by lalelle on Monday 11th of February 2008 03:44:41 PM
Old 02-11-2008
Yes I have been written this kind of code for a hundred scripts but I dont know it shows errors this time...Is it something about the shell in Solaris but I tried both ksh and bash; it gave the same error. I am sure that if test -e /etc/passwd would work.

Please help..
Thanks a lot
 

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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)
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