Sure is this possible, that's one of the thing shell scripts are good for. Get your favouite editor, vi for example and go! Don't forget to make the shell script executable with "chown" and best give it a suffix like .sh.
I'm a newbie to the Unix world Help!
I have to maintain a host of Sybase database servers sitting on Unix Sun Solaris 8...I've been tasked with finding/creating a way to auto start/stop Unix via unix commands, specifically when the Unix servers need to be restarted we want Sybase to start... (2 Replies)
Hi everyone, I was wondering how to configure ftp access for one user when I found this board.
After some searches I found my infos around proftpd (and the great config file proftpd.conf who answered to all my dreams...)
but now I only need to stop proftpd and restart it (I guess it is needed... (1 Reply)
I am in the process of reorging my Lawson db. I need to turn off the RMI server...not a problem. However my instructions also state that I must also
shutdown my Servlet Container....I believe it is Apache.
I have looked in /usr/apache/bin/apachectl
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I'm wondering how I should make a script that can start, stop, and restart another script.
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HI
I am using below code to start and stop servers but it is not working ,how to run the script please suggest me ,if any errors in the script please let me know.
#!/bin/bash
IMS_START="/Webserver/AppServer/bin/startServer.sh"
IMS_STOP="/Webserver/AppServer/bin/stopServer.sh"
case "$1" in
... (1 Reply)
Please anyone tell me
In my last interview the HR asks me how to monitor, start,stop & kill the various processes and subprocesses.
Please anyone explain me clearly. It's my personal request (3 Replies)
Is there any functional difference between:
issuing separate stop/start commands like this;
super (handler) (instance) stop
super (handler) (instance) start
versus issuing a single recycle command like this;
super (handler) (instance) restart (3 Replies)
Another question for you guys! This is so fun.
So I am playing around with the factor operation. I read in "man factor" that you can actually print a list of primes in between a range, using the syntax
factor ]
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I am trying to extract a string from a line of text. Currently I am using
grep -o 'startofstring(.........'
The string is not always the same size.
The string I'm trying to extract starts with 'test(' ends with ')'.
ex "blah,blah,blah,test(stringoftext),blah blah"
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
shell-quote
SHELL-QUOTE(1p) User Contributed Perl Documentation SHELL-QUOTE(1p)NAME
shell-quote - quote arguments for safe use, unmodified in a shell command
SYNOPSIS
shell-quote [switch]... arg...
DESCRIPTION
shell-quote lets you pass arbitrary strings through the shell so that they won't be changed by the shell. This lets you process commands
or files with embedded white space or shell globbing characters safely. Here are a few examples.
EXAMPLES
ssh preserving args
When running a remote command with ssh, ssh doesn't preserve the separate arguments it receives. It just joins them with spaces and
passes them to "$SHELL -c". This doesn't work as intended:
ssh host touch 'hi there' # fails
It creates 2 files, hi and there. Instead, do this:
cmd=`shell-quote touch 'hi there'`
ssh host "$cmd"
This gives you just 1 file, hi there.
process find output
It's not ordinarily possible to process an arbitrary list of files output by find with a shell script. Anything you put in $IFS to
split up the output could legitimately be in a file's name. Here's how you can do it using shell-quote:
eval set -- `find -type f -print0 | xargs -0 shell-quote --`
debug shell scripts
shell-quote is better than echo for debugging shell scripts.
debug() {
[ -z "$debug" ] || shell-quote "debug:" "$@"
}
With echo you can't tell the difference between "debug 'foo bar'" and "debug foo bar", but with shell-quote you can.
save a command for later
shell-quote can be used to build up a shell command to run later. Say you want the user to be able to give you switches for a command
you're going to run. If you don't want the switches to be re-evaluated by the shell (which is usually a good idea, else there are
things the user can't pass through), you can do something like this:
user_switches=
while [ $# != 0 ]
do
case x$1 in
x--pass-through)
[ $# -gt 1 ] || die "need an argument for $1"
user_switches="$user_switches "`shell-quote -- "$2"`
shift;;
# process other switches
esac
shift
done
# later
eval "shell-quote some-command $user_switches my args"
OPTIONS --debug
Turn debugging on.
--help
Show the usage message and die.
--version
Show the version number and exit.
AVAILABILITY
The code is licensed under the GNU GPL. Check http://www.argon.org/~roderick/ or CPAN for updated versions.
AUTHOR
Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
perl v5.8.4 2005-05-03 SHELL-QUOTE(1p)