I have seen this done before - and maybe there is a better way too.
I want to be abe to use a for loop (or other better method) to loop through the database instance names that are part of the script - not an external file where a read might be ok.
Here is what I have and I know won't work -... (5 Replies)
Can anyone tell me what's wrong with my code here? I'm experiencing weird behavior...
I am using 'j' to go down a list filenames saved in a .txt file and prompting the user whether or not she would like to delete each one. This works all well and fine the first run through, but then instead of... (2 Replies)
When I run the following command in the shell it works fine. It prints a city name and then a path for a file.
~$ for i in `awk -F':' '{print $0}' /home/knoppix/Desktop/data/subs | grep -m 1 $ city | sed "s/:/ /"`
>do
>echo $i
>done
Now, when I place it in this shell script (sh) it prints... (6 Replies)
hi,
I have to use for loop in my script. The below code is providing an output,
1,2,3,4,5..n. But i need to display the values one by one eg: it has to display the first value then exit from the loop and display the second value then exit till n(last value).
for i in 1,2,3,4,5..n
do ... (2 Replies)
HI there,
I am trying to count manually what this code does but I am stuck and I don't learly see the result. The code works and it compiles and runs but I just don't follow the value of var.
#include<stdio.h>
#include<stdlib.h>
#include<sys/types.h>
#include<unistd.h>
#include<wait.h>... (2 Replies)
#!/bin/bash
function check_num_args()
{
if ; then
echo "Please provide a file name"
else
treat_as_file $*
fi
}
function treat_as_file()
{
numFiles=$#
for((i=1;i<=$numFiles;i++));do
echo $i
... (3 Replies)
Good evening all I have what might be a simple problem to solve but I do not know how to solve it myself. I am writing a bash script and my code looks something like this:
mp3=`ls | grep \.mp3`
for f in $mp3
do
echo $f
done
Basically what I want to do is look through the current... (4 Replies)
I have the text file where each line has the format:
chr10 101418889 101418904 0.816327
Right now the interval between column 2 and 3 is 15. I only want the two consecutive positions starting at position 1, write it to a file, then move up one position write to file etc. So that:
... (1 Reply)
I have a shell script which has this while loop line
"while read tblName xx; do..."
I understand how while loop works but don't know what does this xx stands for? (1 Reply)