try
and you'll get a ls listing again. Escaping the asterisk only seems to work on numerals. Does anyone know a workaround?
If typing an extra command before & after you're done using the 'calc' utility is acceptable, you could type "set -f" first... ("set +f" to set it back when you're done)...
(Unfortunately, putting this command inside your script won't work, since by the time the script is executed, the * special character will already be expanded...)
I need to pass a parameter to a function in a script. My parameter is a string. When I display the parameter within my function, I only get the first word from string I pass in.
How can I make the function receive the whole string (and not terminate at the first space it encounters)?.
part of... (2 Replies)
Hi,
How to pass parameter to makefile?
Please let me know if any one knows and also please put an example of makefile with this feature.
thanks,
Manju. (3 Replies)
I'm writing a script that will ssh to a number of hosts and run commands. I'm a bit stumped at the moment as some of the commands that I need to run contain wildcards (i.e. *), and so far I have not figured out how to escape the * character so the script doesn't expand it. More specifically, here's... (9 Replies)
Hi,
PW='/as sysdba'; export PW
in other module I call sqlplus ${PW} (this line I unable to change!)
How I can define PW so that sqlplus calls PW in quotes i.e sqlplus '/as sysdba'
I tried like this
PW="'/as sysdba'"; export PW - no luck
Thanks in advance (2 Replies)
Hi All,
When passing parameters to a sheel script, the parameters are referenced by their positions such as $1 for first parameter, $2 for second parameter. these positional values can only have values ranging from $0-$9 (0,1,2,3...9).
I have a shell script meant to accept 20 parameters. for... (3 Replies)
I am surprised by GCC (this is ver. 4.2.4, Ubuntu 32 bit Intel) when a function declares a float parameter and it's prototype is missing, the parameters are messed up.
Please see my code below:
~/test$ cat x1.c
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
set_p(int p1, float p2, int p3, int p4)... (7 Replies)
i am passing input parameter 'one_two' to the script , the script output should display the result as below
one_1two
one_2two
one_3two
if
then
echo " Usage : <$0> <DATABASE> "
exit 0
else
for DB in 1 2 3
do
DBname=`$DATABASE | awk -F "_" '{print $1_${DB}_$2}`
done
fi (5 Replies)
Hi,
I've written a script where eleven parameter to be passed from command line
which is inserting into an oracle table,
it is working but the tenth and 11th parameter are not accepting as given
it is referring to 1st parameter.
HERE IS THE SCRIPT
#!/bin/ksh
#set -o
echo $*... (4 Replies)
Hi ,
I am passing date parameter through file
my shell script testing.sh is
#set -x
#set -v
asd=$1
asd1=$2
echo $asd
echo $asd1
Passing parameter as below
sh testing.sh `cat file1.txt`
Output (2 Replies)