I want to be able to create a script on the fly from another script by echoing lines into a file, but am running into difficulty, as it isn't working right. What am I doing wrong?
I need to schedule a shell script that runs at the command prompt to run with crontab. When I run this at the command prompt as follows it works:
echo /usr/test/script.sh date1 date2 y | at 20:00
But if I will pass these argument (date1, date2, Y) with in a shell script (say scr1.sh) and... (7 Replies)
Hi,
I wish to store $string1 in $string1array a character in each array element.
Then i wish to echo the entire array to the screen so that it reads as the normal string again.
I have been trying with the code below but does not work. Please help...
To put string into array:
... (5 Replies)
first off let me introduce myself. My name is Eric and I am new to linux, I am taking an advanced linux administration class and we are tasked with creating a script to add new users that anyone can run, has to check for the existence of a directory. if the directory does not exist then it has... (12 Replies)
This may be little confusing. I have Script1, which pulls data from the system and creates another script(lets say script2). While I run script1 I need to add printf/echo statements for script2, so that when I run script2 I see those statement.
eg: script1 765
printf " display frame-$1 timeoffset... (2 Replies)
Trying to insert a backspace for echo.
while true ; do
i='-\|/'
for j in 1 2 3 4
do
echo -ne "$(echo ${i} | cut -c${j})"
sleep 1
done
done
this currently outputs:
-\|/-\|/-\|/-\| .....etc
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Hello Friends,
I am a new learner of Unix & need to understand below script as start up,
Can anyone explain the meaning of each line listed below.
Thanks for your time.
#!/usr/bin/ksh
PARAMS=$1
#echo "parms passed is $PARAMS @"
STATUS=`echo ${PARAMS} | cut -d: -f1`
JOBNAME=`echo... (9 Replies)
HI
I have and echo command which works perfectly in the shell but when i execute in the script it gives me an error code
query is as below
QUERY=`echo "Select Severity,Dupl_count,Creation_Time,Last_Received,Node_Name,Node_Name,Object,Message_Group,Message_Text,Last_Annotation from " \
... (2 Replies)
I am writing a bash script that automatically generates a macro program.
I want to have an echo on multiple lines and getting an error
/home/chaos/instru-correct.sh: line 309: command line is: command not found
I am using
echo "# The general synopsis of the $mfl" \
... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: kristinu
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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS
noecho
echo(3XCURSES) X/Open Curses Library Functions echo(3XCURSES)NAME
echo, noecho - enable/disable terminal echo
SYNOPSIS
cc [ flag... ] file... -I /usr/xpg4/include -L /usr/xpg4/lib
-R /usr/xpg4/lib -lcurses [ library... ]
c89 [ flag... ] file... -lcurses [ library... ]
#include <curses.h>
int echo(void);
int noecho(void);
DESCRIPTION
The echo() function enables Echo mode for the current screen. The noecho() function disables Echo mode for the current screen. Initially,
curses software echo mode is enabled and hardware echo mode of the tty driver is disabled. The echo() and noecho() functions control soft-
ware echo only. Hardware echo must remain disabled for the duration of the application, else the behavior is undefined.
RETURN VALUES
Upon successful completion, these functions return OK. Otherwise, they return ERR.
ERRORS
No errors are defined.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface Stability |Standard |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|MT-Level |Unsafe |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO getch(3XCURSES), getstr(3XCURSES), initscr(3XCURSES), libcurses(3XCURSES), scanw(3XCURSES), attributes(5), standards(5)SunOS 5.11 5 Jun 2002 echo(3XCURSES)