I ve been trying to build another shell where I am using the following code.
The problem I am facing is that it always comes to the default case and not any of the cases above it. I believe their is some mistake in the way I have given the Regular Expressions for cases.
Hello,
I am having a problem setting a range of numbers for the "case" structure.
I can use with no problems, but
when I use it doesn't work???
Does the case struture allow numeric ranges?
eg:
echo -e "enter number between 0 and 60: \c"
read $answer
case $answer in
) echo... (2 Replies)
Isn't any "NOT" operator that can be used in the case construction like :
case $VAR (NOT) in
option1 | option2 | option 3...) COMMAND ;;
esac
Or something similiar to the "default" from switch, so I could at least do something like this:
case $VAR in
... (2 Replies)
I'm trying to run a ksh script with a case condition to handle parameters.
#!/bin/ksh
db_start(){
*code
}
db_shut(){
*code
}
case "$1" in
up)
db_start TRNG
;;
down)
db_shut TRNG
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $0 { up | down }" (3 Replies)
Hi,
Can anyone help me with the following case structure?
echo "Please enter the date for which you want the Report:\c"
read dat
d1=`echo $dat|cut -c7-8`
m1=`echo $dat|cut -c5-6`
y1=`echo $dat|cut -c1-4`
yr=`expr "$d1" - 1`
case "$yr" in
0)
MONTH=`expr "$m1" - 1`... (4 Replies)
I am trying to write a ksh script using the case statement to select certain directories to remove. The directories that I am looking for are in the following format 2008-10-10. I want to exclude all other files/directories that contain anything other the 4 digit year,a dash, 2 digit month, a... (2 Replies)
Hello Experts,
I was wondering how can we get a fall trough case structure.
Eg: If we have two cases A and B and a default; if I do not break after A, it should execute all the statements of A as well as B if I break after B else fall through even lower.
I tried this:
#!/bin/sh
v1=1... (6 Replies)
hi all,
is there a storage structure in ksh which only allows unique values i.e overwrites duplicates values ??
am using an array to hold server names from a 'find' command but some of the names are repeated. Is there an easy way to remove the duplicates ??
ta. (2 Replies)
What is the command to change the contents of a file to UPPER case. Here in this file below you see some characters are Sp, Ch
1200812270046581
22885072800000652 B86860003OLFXXX592123320081227
22885029800000652 B86860003ODL-Sp592123420081227
22885093700000652-B94030001ODL-Ch592123520081227... (4 Replies)
Hi,
while true
do
printf "$FBOLD\nPlease enter the minutes (0-59): $FREG"
read MIN
case "$MIN" in
||s) break 2;;
*)
echo ""
echo "Invalid minutes, please try again.";;
esac
done
In the above... (4 Replies)
Hi folks,
I am new to bash scripting so please excuse my question.
Is there any chance to combine a case structure with the read command?
Like
case (read -p "" variable) in
x)
Thx! (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: haukee
7 Replies
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suspend
suspend(1) User Commands suspend(1)NAME
suspend - shell built-in function to halt the current shell
SYNOPSIS
sh
suspend
csh
suspend
ksh
suspend
DESCRIPTION
sh
Stops the execution of the current shell (but not if it is the login shell).
csh
Stop the shell in its tracks, much as if it had been sent a stop signal with ^Z. This is most often used to stop shells started by su.
ksh
Stops the execution of the current shell (but not if it is the login shell).
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
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SEE ALSO csh(1), kill(1), ksh(1), sh(1), su(1M), attributes(5)SunOS 5.10 15 Apr 1994 suspend(1)