My knowledge of Unix input/output/devices is very hazy so could someone please tell me if the following is secure?
I log on to an account on a shared Unix server (Linux 2.6.18-6-686) using ssh (PuTTY). I start a python program and then type into it (python raw_input command) the... (2 Replies)
Hi,
echo "Enter file name of input file list along with absolute path : "
read inputFileList
if
then
for string in `cat inputFileList`
do
echo $string
done
else
echo " file does not exist"
fi
From the above code, if the user enters a invalid file... (1 Reply)
Good Evening. I'm new to C. Can you please help me.
I'm creating an error checking function, user will input a string, this will check if the input is all alphabet or all letters only. If there is a digit or other special char, it will print Error then ask input from user again.
Here's my... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I need my script to check if the user enters 3 values if not 5 values to my script and alert if the input has any other number of values.
for example:
./myscript.sh 22 56 3221 - > correct
./myscript.sh 22 56 3221 45 777 -> correct
./myscript.sh 22 56 3221 45 -> incorrect
Please... (6 Replies)
Hi,
On my Java webpage which invokes the shell script has two checkboxes viz ...
apache
and
weblogic
apache require one parameter i.e apache home from the user while Weblogic requires three or five params from the user vi.z weblogic_home or <jdk_home, config_home & pid>, username and... (4 Replies)
How to check the user input to be valid using shell script?
The valid input is in the format like as follows.
1. It can only have r,w,x or a hyphen and nothing else.
2. ensure the r, w, x are in the correct order.
for example: rwxr-xr-x is a valid format.
Thanks (5 Replies)
I am trying to allow a user to enter in text and then store that text in a variable $gene to run in an awk command in which those values are used to run some calculations. I am getting syntax errors however, when I try. Thank you :).
The awk runs great if it is a pre-defined file that is used,... (7 Replies)
I've always used code tags for code but not for showing terminal input and output. I noticed a mod edited one of my threads and now I'm confused as to proper protocol.
Mike (5 Replies)
Hi All,
#!/bin/bash
#Just trying to check if letters are in the user input. Any tips?
# I have tried regexp and using 0-9 etc, i cannot get this to work either in just an if statement or while in a loop.
echo "Please pick a number"
read num
if ; then
echo "Please enter a number"... (7 Replies)