A good debugging technique in most shells is to use "-x" which prints each command as it is executed. I put your commands in a script named 'yourscript'
and then execute with -x:
Here's your corrected script (using 'ct=1')
sorry about that
my code is
ct=1
head -n $ct | tail -1
i will put this code in a while loop and increment ct.
so when ct =1 i will get the first record, when ct =2 then i will get the second record and so on....
But head -n $ct is not working. it says incorrect usage. Please let me know what is the problem
my boss has done it again
I have been sent to fix a unix issue
and I ma hoping you can help
three issues
1st. I have a printer that when you try to print to it the print job comes out on a diffrent printer. If I take the printer ( dot matrix thourgh a serail connection) to a diffrent local the... (3 Replies)
how can i monitor usages of CPU, Memory, Hard disk etc. under SUN Solaries
through a c program or java program
i want to store that data into database so i can show it graphically
thanks in advance (2 Replies)
Hi All,
How can the head command be used to extract only a particular line.
By default head -n filename displays the first n lines. I want only the nth line.
I couldn't get it from forum search.
Thanks,
Sumesh (6 Replies)
how can I find cpu usage memory usage swap usage and
I want to know CPU usage above X% and contiue Y times and memory usage above X % and contiue Y times
my final destination is monitor process
logical volume usage above X % and number of Logical voluage above
can I not to... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I want to monitor the current cpu usage, monitor usage , disk I/o and network utlization for solaris using SNMP.
I want the oids for above tasks.
can you please tell me that
Thank you (2 Replies)
I know that the common use of head is for example head -3 etc.Is there any possibility that,if i have a variable that equals to an integer(i=5),i can write head -i??
If not,what syntax or commands should i write down in order to have the same result?
//maybe something lik head -"$variable" ? (2 Replies)
i have lots of files in /law/prod and /law/dev, such as AP20PD, AP20WS, AP20.scr, AP20.rpt
if i am in /law DIR
find . -name AP20PD, found in /law/prod and /law/dev
i want to head -1 AP20PD from both location and >> /tmp/test.log
can i use find and head in one line ?
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Hi all,
Can you please tell me the command, with which one can know the amount of space a specific directory has used.
df -k . ---> Displays, the amount of space allocated, and used for a directory.
du -k <dir name> - gives me the memory used of all the files inside <dir>
But i... (2 Replies)
Let's say i have 20 users logged on Server. How can I know how much memory percent used each of them is using with system time in each user? (2 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
pct-scanner-script
PCT-SCANNER-SCRIPT(1) General Commands Manual PCT-SCANNER-SCRIPT(1)NAME
pct-scanner-script - easy scan and create merged DjVu and PDF documents for archiving
SYNOPSIS
pct-scanner-script [--help]
DESCRIPTION
pct-scanner-script is a bash script and configuration system to easily scan documents and create a digital archiving. It can create DjVu
PDF and JPEG outputs, in merged and individual files. It also has a configuration system where different configurations can be defined,
making it easy to switch between configurations.
Please use pct-scanner-script --help to find all program options, the complete help, and all examples.
Features:
- auto archiving in merged and individual DjVu, PDF, and JPEG files
- auto and manual resume when scanning somehow fails
- cascading configuration system, for easy customizing
- easy command-line-style bash program, with useful options
- archiving made possible with both adf and flatbed scanners
- built for productivity and daily use
- uses bash, scanadf and other mainstream processing tools
- multilanguage commandline output
OPTIONS -h, --help, -?
Show summary of options, help, and examples.
DEBUGGING
This program is a helper script to easy scan and automated digital document archiving for normal and adf scanners. You can debug this
script by running it as bash -x pct-scanner-script [options]. The script is just a nice wrapper for the scanadf, DjVu and PDF tools.
SEE ALSO scanadf(1),
AUTHOR
pct-scanner-script and this manual page are written by:
Jelle de Jong <jelledejong@powercraft.nl>.
March 31, 2009 PCT-SCANNER-SCRIPT(1)