You are storing the '*' wildcard in df[1] instead of the filename so when you do the "echo ${df[1]}", that's the point where filename matching happens. If there is no matching file in the directory, it will show "*trx". Storing the output of "echo *trx" eliminates this issue.
Hey this is working! Thank you so much rikxik! Really really really appreciate this as I've been scratching my head from yesterday abt this issue
I'm trying to figure out how to build a small shell script that will find old .shtml files in every /tgp/ directory on the server and delete them if they are older than 10 days...
The structure of the paths are like this:
/home/domains/www.domain2.com/tgp/
/home/domains/www.domain3.com/tgp/... (1 Reply)
I am using an array (clmlist01). I have 61 of these and have 4 or more references to each one in a block of code that I do not want to have to hardcode. With that being said, I am creating a varible and going through a for loop to create the actually name of each array. The arrays would end up... (3 Replies)
Hi all,
I have this scenario where:-
The file that I want to save its name into array df is my.08120323.trx which is located in the dir as below:
$ pwd
/u01/abc/def/SRC_datafiles
$ ls *trx
my.08120323.trx
$ df=*"trx" ##keeping the filename... (1 Reply)
I am new to shell programming, i have a requierement to assign a file name into a variable.
for ex:
the file name are below
603_2009_09_24_34.csv
702_2009_10_25_10.csv
for ex: i need to get the file 603_2009_09_24_34.csv but first 3 didgits are fixed but rest of the digits are not
below is... (3 Replies)
I have a script to fix permissions which is made up of blocks like:
FS_ROOT=/home/shared/Photos
FS_EXCLUDE=( \( -path */.webviews -o -path */.thumbnails \) -prune -o )
find $FS_ROOT ${FS_EXCLUDE} -type d -not -perm 2770 -exec chmod 2770 "{}" \;
That fragment works as expected, but no matter... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I have a piece of code as follows:
i=0
while read LINE
do
var = "$LINE"
i=$((i+1))
echo "${var}"
done < file
I want to assign value to the array var.
However, when i execute the script i get a error.
Please can you help me know what i am missing.
I ultimately want to... (2 Replies)
Hi There
I am new to scripting and require some assistance please.
I am trying to define a variable with a wildcard in a shell script (.ksh) that will be run on AIX 5300-10.
The variable I am trying is:
FILES=LLA_*.CSVWhen I run the following section of the script:
scp... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have the following lines that I would like to see in an array for easy comparisons and printing:
Example 1:
field1,field2,field3,field4,field5
value1,value2,value3,value4,value5Example 2:
field1,field3,field4,field2,field5,field6,field7... (7 Replies)
Hi All
Is there is any way to maintain the scope of the variable in unix
Example
x=1
j=1
while
do
..
....
....
while
do
..
..
x=x+1
done
#inner most while loop ends here
done
#outer loop ends here (8 Replies)
I tried to use variable inside an array variable, but its not working as expected.:wall:
ENV1=123
ENV1=789
ENV1=120
ENV2=567
if
then
name=ENV1
echo "${name}"
echo "${name}"
echo "${name}"
else
name=ENV1
echo "${name}"
fi
Output: ./val.sh 1
123 (2 Replies)