Ok i have taken your advised indented my code and i have managed to fix my problem but unfortuantely now another small one has arisen.
The problem is that executing my commands requires two presses of the ENTER key as opposed to the originally being pressed once as one would expect, for example when quitting the program you are asked "Are you sure you want to quit?" after pressing Y you then have to press enter twice before the program is closed whereas before i was once you would expect. My edited code has been included below:
Code:
I hope you can understand what i am trying to get across, if not just say so i can explain. Also if possible could you please add any ammendmants recommended into the code i have supplied so i know exactly where to place them. Thanks alot for your help.
I have 'translated' selection sort from java to KSH, here is my code
#1. get the inputs and put into arr
print "Enter the integers (separated by a space):"
read integers
set -A arr $integers
#2. start sorting process, using selection sort
min=0
tmp=0
i=0
while test $i -lt... (2 Replies)
Hi
I'm fairly new to unix and scripting (in BASH) and am here to post my first question.
What I'm trying to do is pipe a sorted listing (ls) to zenity and when the list appears to the user, the choice they choose is returned to a variable so it can be used in conditional statements.
I can... (2 Replies)
hey all, me again....having a problem with my code, where I essentially am trying to show a menu, have the user select an option (from 1 to 5), then display which selection they picked...
#!/bin/bash
# A LIST OF THE ERROR MESSAGES AND THE PROPER SYNTAX:
error_0="Correct amount of... (1 Reply)
I have a txt file with several columns and i want to peform an operation on two columns and output it to a new txt file .
file.txt
900.00000 1 1 1
500.00000
500.00000
100000.000
4
4
1.45257346E-07 899.10834 ... (4 Replies)
Hi
I have a file with 3 columns. say,
infile:
1 50 68
34 3 23
23 4 56
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I want to generate n files from this file using a loop so that 1st column in output file is (column1 of infile/(2*n+2.561))
I am doing like this:
for ((i=1; i<=3; i++))
do
a=`echo... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I'm trying to populate bash script variable, data_size with the
size of the largest file in my current directory
data_size=$(ls -lS | grep -v "total" | head -1) | awk '{ print $5 }'
I've tried adding an echo before the call to awk
data_size=$(ls -l | grep -v "total" | head -1) |... (2 Replies)
what I'm trying to do is ... need to drop tables w/ names like
ABC_NY_2001
ABC_ORD_2001
ABC_TX_2001
ABC_CL_2001
For this, I want to write a query "DROP TABLE ABC_var_2001".
now "var" should be either NY, ORD, TX or CL.
I'm new to programming so don't know how to create a variable w/ OR... (3 Replies)
Hello;
I have:
ll | grep -v ^d | awk '{print $9}'
rcx_access_report_fid.txt
rcx_access_report_hsi.txt
rcx_access_report_mmm.txt
rcx_access_report_qsc.txt
I want to get:
rcx_access_report_fid.txt
rcx_access_report_hsi
rcx_access_report_mmm
rcx_access_report_qsc
But when I try: (9 Replies)
can someone help me assign the selection of a drop down menu to a variable? the variable i need to store the selection in is inputA.
<form name="inputA">
<p align="center">
<p align="center">Name: <input name="inputA" type="text" size="45">
<select>
<?php
if ($handle =... (1 Reply)
Hi,
Here is the script i try to perform arithmetic operation in two variables .
git branch -r | while read brname ; do
REV_COMMITS=`git rev-list --count $brname`
echo "$brname has $REV_COMMITS"
(( TOTAL = TOTAL + REV_COMMITS ))
echo "in loop" $TOTAL
done
echo "total is " $TOTAL
... (3 Replies)