1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi I want to do a regex test and branch based on the test result, but this doesn't seems to work :confused: if \) ]] then echo success else echo failed fi (1 Reply)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello all, I would like some help to find the regexp to test that a word does not contains anything than the character set of printable strings. Especially the word should not contain a underscore. echo "$word" | grep "( \'\(\)+,-\.:=\?)+" if then echo success else echo failed... (2 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

I'm almost pulling out my hair trying to figure out what's wrong with this... there's no reason I can see that it shouldn't be working. It seems that the code acts as though the conditional statement is true no matter what - I've even tried removing the negation operator, but it always goes into... (5 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

I want to test if my host can connect to any of the following 10 hosts (192.168.1.0 to 192.168.1.9) I didnt know which command i should use, so i chose ping. (i wonder if i should use tracepath or sth else) my code is the following: #!/bin/bash clear firstPart="192.168.1" maxNum="9" ... (2 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

This is the code: while test 1 -eq 1 do read a $a if test $a = stop then break fi done I read a command on every loop an execute it. I check if the string equals the word stop to end the loop,but it say that I gave too many arguments to test. For example echo hello. Now the... (1 Reply)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, We have to configure servers with a range of IPs which is in itself a subject for another script assistance request -but- we have run into quite a few IP ranges with routing problems lately. I've been trying to figure out the best way to test a range of IPs, I mean, manually it's not... (4 Replies)

7. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hi, I am unable to run a selective set of tests in gcc-4.5.1 test suite. I tried two runtest commands given below (output is also given below). Can you please guide me how to run specific set of tests for example : I would like to run only tests gcc.target/i386/avx-vaddpd-1.c and ... (0 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I have the following script under bash if ; then echo File $file_name Not Found else echo File $file_name Found fi I get the message even the file is found; there is only one file with that name in the directory I can't figure... (4 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, can you please help me because I am totally confused with a simple script: #!/bin/bash ] || ] && echo "Good Morning" ] || ] && echo "Good Night" For me, these two strings are indentical: false || false and there is no point to execute echo command. But the run result is... (5 Replies)

10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I want to check (using bash condition test function) if string contains three spaces, ignoring last three spaces at the end of string. string_to_report='foo bar foo bar ' string_to_ignore='foo bar ' (8 Replies)