It may be personal preference, but I would do something more like the following when checking if a variable has contents. Then you can easily check all three rather than writing files that will probably have to be clean up. Also, you can't always be sure that you can write a file. You may not have permissions or the filesystem could be full etc.
Hey ,
I'm trying to perform the following command, however it cannot read the variable assigned earlier. I'm not sure why this happen. Please help thanks
while :
do
echo "what's ur name? (if none just press )"
read name
changeName = echo $name | sed "s/on/ey/"
echo $changeName #this... (8 Replies)
I am making of a script that will go through a couple of for loops and create file names based on the values in that loop, however the variable that combines everything is not getting assigned properly:
#! /bin/bash
for imod in K33_j1b_WS9_6
do
for emod in mb2A mb2C mb3A mb3C mb4A... (1 Reply)
Hi,
i'm posting this in the Solaris forum although maybe it should be better in the General unix forum, I'm formatting an output witht he following command:
crontab -l | grep GBOUAT8 | grep UTP | grep -i stop | sed 's/\\//'
08 2 * * 2-6 /apps/sum_glob/gbo_uat/sparse/bin/dmg_cronlaunch -ENVI... (2 Replies)
The requirement is, there is a log file which contains a huge data. i need to get a particular field out of it by searching with another field.
ex:
2011-03-28 13:00:07,423 : millis=231 q={ call get_data_account(?,?,?,?,?) }, params=
i need to search for the word "get_data_account" in file... (1 Reply)
I am trying to check whether a variable has been assigned on the command line or not.
Here is what I did:
#!/usr/bin/bash
if( $variable == '\0')
{
print "variable was not assigned"
exit
}
else
NF = 2 {print $1, ""}
exit
fi
awk -f question1.awk variable = 58 letters.txt.
So... (3 Replies)
I am more of a newbie, but wanted to post this in this forum as I was afraid no one would look at it in unix forums as it concerns shell scripting. I have a shell script that now runs fine with the exclusion of one line:
x=`su nbadmin -c "ssh -t servery /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/bplist -C... (7 Replies)
I want to do 2 things in single line that is evaluating a command to get return code and store $2 of awk if the command exit code is 0.
eval "ade desc ${filename}@@/<branch_name> | grep Version | awk '{print $2}' 2>&1 1>/dev/null"
ret=$?
echo "$ret $val"
if
then
... (3 Replies)
Experts,
I'm having problems with the code below.
I'm trying to test $var2 for two different regexs.
I thought it could be done per below, but I'm getting the following error when running.
$ ./test.pl b fed50c0100****
Unescaped left brace in regex is deprecated, passed through in regex; marked... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: timj123
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echo
echo(1B) SunOS/BSD Compatibility Package Commands echo(1B)NAME
echo - echo arguments to standard output
SYNOPSIS
/usr/ucb/echo [-n] [argument]
DESCRIPTION
echo writes its arguments, separated by BLANKs and terminated by a NEWLINE, to the standard output.
echo is useful for producing diagnostics in command files and for sending known data into a pipe, and for displaying the contents of envi-
ronment variables.
For example, you can use echo to determine how many subdirectories below the root directory (/) is your current directory, as follows:
o echo your current-working-directory's full pathname
o pipe the output through tr to translate the path's embedded slash-characters into space-characters
o pipe that output through wc -w for a count of the names in your path.
example% /usr/bin/echo "echo $PWD | tr '/' ' ' | wc -w"
See tr(1) and wc(1) for their functionality.
The shells csh(1), ksh(1), and sh(1), each have an echo built-in command, which, by default, will have precedence, and will be invoked if
the user calls echo without a full pathname. /usr/ucb/echo and csh's echo() have an -n option, but do not understand back-slashed escape
characters. sh's echo(), ksh's echo(), and /usr/bin/echo, on the other hand, understand the black-slashed escape characters, and ksh's
echo() also understands a as the audible bell character; however, these commands do not have an -n option.
OPTIONS -n Do not add the NEWLINE to the output.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWscpu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO csh(1), echo(1), ksh(1), sh(1), tr(1), wc(1), attributes(5)NOTES
The -n option is a transition aid for BSD applications, and may not be supported in future releases.
SunOS 5.11 3 Aug 1994 echo(1B)