01-09-2009
You need question marks '?' instead of dots '.' in the patterns.
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1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
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)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
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)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
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
;;
*)
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
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 "$yr" in
0)
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am trying to write a ksh script using the case statement to select certain directories to remove. The directories that I am looking for are in the following format 2008-10-10. I want to exclude all other files/directories that contain anything other the 4 digit year,a dash, 2 digit month, a... (2 Replies)
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hello Experts,
I was wondering how can we get a fall trough case structure.
Eg: If we have two cases A and B and a default; if I do not break after A, it should execute all the statements of A as well as B if I break after B else fall through even lower.
I tried this:
#!/bin/sh
v1=1... (6 Replies)
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
hi all,
is there a storage structure in ksh which only allows unique values i.e overwrites duplicates values ??
am using an array to hold server names from a 'find' command but some of the names are repeated. Is there an easy way to remove the duplicates ??
ta. (2 Replies)
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
What is the command to change the contents of a file to UPPER case. Here in this file below you see some characters are Sp, Ch
1200812270046581
22885072800000652 B86860003OLFXXX592123320081227
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
while true
do
printf "$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)
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
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)
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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:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
csh(1), kill(1), ksh(1), sh(1), su(1M), attributes(5)
SunOS 5.10 15 Apr 1994 suspend(1)