1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all, i am beginner to unix and trying out a shell script which does the following. i have to calculate a persons salary. his salary is read from the keyboard. he has two types of deductions. 40% as dearness allowance and 20% as house rent. i have to print the gross salary. here is the code... (5 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

I need to invoke a program on remote server using ssh in a shell script. In addition i would like to capture date/time and if there is any errors , then script should write to log file. can someone please help me out? (1 Reply)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I have a file in which records contains non ascii characters. The records are comma delimited and quoted. The non ascii characters are found in a particular column. Example records "YY","AK000021","Ã","IO","PP" "Y1","AK000022","Ã","PO","PP" "Y2","AK000022","Ã","PO","PP" I need to... (2 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

hi guys we've had nagios spewing false alarm (for the umpteenth time) and finally the customer had enough so they're starting to question nagios. we had the check interval increased from 5 minutes to 2 minutes, but that's just temporary solution. I'm thinking of implementing a script on the... (8 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

I need to create digit day script that takes a single numeric argument and then it should print out the day of the week using the number modulo 7 formula e.g: 0 - Sunday 6- Saturday 131 - Friday I am fairly new to unix so I don't know how to use the number modulo 7 formula. Does the script need... (3 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all, Here is a portion of my script test.sh: #!/bin/bash tar -cf $name.tar $name && pbzip2 $name.tar 2-Sending .tar.bz2 to destination node Please, i have a question. The execution of the second instruction is done, but i do not see the result of pbzip2 I have to send this... (2 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi everyone, I'm trying to write a small script to automatize row data treatment. However, I got some trouble with the awk command. I want to use awk to extract a define paragraph from a text file. The first and final lines are defined externally in two variables called debut and fin. I... (2 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

So I'm trying to pass certain json elements as env vars and use them later on in a script. Sample json: JSON='{ "Element1": "file-123456", "Element2": "Name, of, company written in, a very weird way", "Element3": "path/to/some/file.txt", }' (part of the) script: for s... (5 Replies)

9. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

In Bash shell - the ps -ef shows only the /bin/bash but the script name is not displayed ? Is there any way to get the script names for the process command ? --- Post updated at 08:39 AM --- in KSH (Korn Shell), my command output shows the script names but when run in the Bash Shell... (3 Replies)

10. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

Hi everyone, first time poster so I hope you'll be gentle with me. :o I am needing some help to make a script in bash to do the following: For each file with a name beginning with the string ff_ Extract the first line of the file (the date) Change "-" to "/" in the date entry to create a... (3 Replies)