I'd still use a case statement, because I think it's easier. This gets a bit obscure, though.
This is not entirely robust in the face of random user input (if they give : as "year" it doesn't work right) but I guess you might be coping with that already earlier in your script.
One reason to prefer case over if is that you don't have to worry about an empty argument string; there are various tricks like if [ X"$input" = X ] but they're rather unsightly IMHO.
In my ksh script, if the conditions of a if statement are true, then do nothing; otherwise, execute some commands.
How do I write the "do nothing" statement in the following example?
Example:
if (( "$x"="1" && "$y"="a" && "$z"="happy" ))
then
do nothing
else
command
command
fi... (3 Replies)
Hi All,
I am using Unix ksh script.
I need to insert values to a table using the o/p from a slelect statement.
Can anybody Help!
My script looks like tihs.
---`sqlplus -s username/password@SID << EOF
set heading off
set feedback off
set pages 0
insert into ${TB_NAME}_D... (2 Replies)
I can't find anything wrong with this line of code, it works when there is one file in the directory but more than one i get a "too many arguements2 error
if ; then
am i missing something? (3 Replies)
Hello friends,
I have a boubt passing different arguments at a time for any one option in below code.
I would also like to check which option has been selected (any one of i, r, u ) so that whether or not matching argument passed can be verified.
for i and r - install and re-install -... (4 Replies)
I am writing a script in bash and want to perform the operation
I check number of arguments and make a print statement with the passes arguments
If I pass 3 arguments I will do
printf "$frmt" "$1" "$2" "$3"If I have 4 arguments I do
printf "$frmt" "$1" "$2" "$3" "$4"etc (4 Replies)
Hi
Am pretty new to C..
Am trying to pass the arguments from command line and use them in switch case statement..
i have tried the following
#include <stdlib.h>
main(int argc, char* argv)
{
int num=0;
if ( argc == 2 )
num = argv;
printf("%d is the num value",num);
switch ( num )
... (2 Replies)
Hello,
I have a question regarding the usage statement of a script.
I have 2 parameters "--pto" and "--pto_list". To start the script I will need one of them. Both together are not possible.
How this would be printed out within a usage statement?
My suggestion would be:
Usage:... (4 Replies)
Hi folks,
I have a scenario to convert the update statements into insert statements using shell script (awk, sed...) or in database using regex.
I have a bunch of update statements with all columns in a file which I need to convert into insert statements.
UPDATE TABLE_A SET COL1=1 WHERE... (0 Replies)
I'm stuck on a particular problem and need some guidance. I have a file with a name and a phone number in it (teledir.txt). I need to do a $# in a separate script to take a positional parameter and check to see if it is in the file. To quote the question:
If one argument is supplied, check... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: Eric7giants
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shtool-echo
SHTOOL-ECHO.TMP(1) GNU Portable Shell Tool SHTOOL-ECHO.TMP(1)NAME
shtool-echo - GNU shtool echo(1) extensional command
SYNOPSIS
shtool echo [-n|--newline] [-e|--expand] string
DESCRIPTION
shtool echo is an echo(1) style command which prints string to stdout and optionally provides special expansion constructs (terminal bold
mode, environment details, date, etc) and newline control. The trick of this command is that it provides a portable -n option and hides the
gory details needed to find out the environment details under option -e.
OPTIONS
The following command line options are available.
-n, --newline
By default, output is written to stdout followed by a "newline" (ASCII character 0x0a). If option -n is used, this newline character is
omitted.
-e, --expand
If option -e is used, string can contain special "%x" constructs which are expanded before the output is written. Currently the
following constructs are recognized:
%B switch terminal mode to bold display mode.
%b switch terminal mode back to normal display mode.
%u the current user name.
%U the current user id (numerical).
%g the current group name.
%G the current group id (numerical).
%h the current hostname (without any domain extension).
%d the current domain name.
%D the current day of the month.
%M the current month (numerical).
%m the current month name.
%Y the current year.
EXAMPLE
# shell script
shtool echo -n -e "Enter your name [%B%u%b]: "; read name
shtool echo -e "Your Email address might be %u@%h%d"
shtool echo -e "The current date is %D-%m-%Y"
HISTORY
The GNU shtool echo command was originally written by Ralf S. Engelschall <rse@engelschall.com> in 1998 for Website META Language (WML)
under the name buildinfo. It was later taken over into GNU shtool.
SEE ALSO shtool(1), echo(1).
18-Jul-2008 shtool 2.0.8 SHTOOL-ECHO.TMP(1)