That will fail if there are any spaces in the arguments. Use:
Quote:
group=`head -1 $savegrp |grep -v -i media |awk '{print $4,$5}'`>/dev/null
What are you sending to /dev/null? If it's outside the backticks, you are doing nothing, since an assignment doesn't produce any output. If it's inside, there will be nothing assign to the variable.
It's not clear what you are trying to do here. Whatever it is, you can almost certainly do it without calling three external commands; in fact, probably without any:
Need some help.
I need to load data into some Oracle tables and one of the pieces of data that I need to load is the filename. This filename is distinct every single time. Basically the last 6 characters will be different with no pattern.
ex. testfile_041504_003567
To load the filename... (4 Replies)
Hi,
In the code below, the $DD1, $DD2, $MM1, $MM2 are not fetching the values. Can anybody tell me where have i made wrong.
Shift_date.sh is a script which gives the previous date if we give the current date in the format YYYYMMDD and +/- how many days past/future.. Like Shift_date.sh... (3 Replies)
I am trying to write a script that prompts users for date and time, then process the gzip file into awk. During the ksh part of the script another file is created and needs to be processed with a different set of pattern matches then I need to combine the two in the end. I'm stuck at the part... (6 Replies)
Hi all,
I have a scenario as below. I created a file -
$touch myfile.onlytesting.20090227.txt
I want to assign the date only - 20090227 into a variable x.
How do I do this in unix command?
Please help. Thanks;) (4 Replies)
Hello, i'm fairly new to scripting, so please bear with me (I did try looking this up first, i figured it had to have been asked already).
#!/bin/bash
fileName=`date | sed -n 's/ /_/g p' | sed -n 's/^/Backup_/p' | sed -n 's/$/\.tar/p'`; #THIS SETS BACKUP_DATE
echo $fileName #TEST OF VALUE
... (4 Replies)
Greetings, people of UNIX/Linux forums.
I am having a problem with a script, where I am trying to create a new variable. The value of this variable would be dependent on the value in a couple other previous variables (all variables are 2-digit integers). Here is my code:
#set the stations... (3 Replies)
Hi all,
I have a list of xml file. I need to split the files to a different files when see the <ko> tag.
The list of filename are
B20090908.1100-20090908.1200_CDMA=1,NO=2,SITE=3.xml
B20090908.1200-20090908.1300_CDMA=1,NO=2,SITE=3.xml
B20090908.1300-20090908.1400_CDMA=1,NO=2,SITE=3.xml
... (3 Replies)
Hi guys,
I have a variable where i am storing the filename (with full path).
I just need the value before ".txt". But instead of getting the filename i am getting the contents of the filename.
FileName=/appl/data/Input/US/Test.txt
a=`awk -F"." '{print $1}' ${FileName}`
echo $a... (3 Replies)
Hi All,
Thanks in Advance
I am working on a shell script. I need some assistance.
My Requirement:
1) There are some set of files in a directory like given below
OTP_UFSC_20120530000000_acc.csv
OTP_UFSC_20120530000000_faf.csv
OTP_UFSC_20120530000000_prom.csv... (0 Replies)
Hi All,
Thanks in Advance
I am working on a shell script. I need some assistance.
My code:
if
then
set "subscriber" "promplan" "mapping" "dedicatedaccount" "faflistSub" "faflistAcc" "accumulator"\
"pam_account";
for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8;... (0 Replies)