1. Shell Programming and Scripting

please give the difference between AIX shell scripting and Unix shell scripting. (2 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, experts. Whould anybody clear explay me difference and usage of these 3 commands (particulary in bash) : exec eval source I've tryed to read the manual pages but did not get much. Also could not get something useful from Google search - just so much and so not exactly, that is... (3 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

In POSIX shell, we don't have arrays, but we can iterate over a list like this: #!/bin/sh list="Fred Barney Wilma Betty" for i in $list; do echo $i; done Fred Barney Wilma Betty But let's say we want "Mr. Slate" in the list. We know we can't just stick him in there like this:... (5 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi How to call a shell scripting through a Perl scripting? Actually I need some value from Shell scripting and passes in the Perl scripting. So how can i do this? (2 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

I am stuck on something that should really be simple, and was looking for some help.. I am new to shell scripting.Need help on this..... The script is to find the stale nfs. cat file - - - - /abcd/1234 I am writing the script to check the nfs errors of above file ... (3 Replies)

6. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

According to the POSIX specifications eval is a special shell built-in, which should imply that variable assignments specified together with it should remain in effect after the built-in completes. Thus one would expect IFS to be changed after this: var=$'a\nb c' $ IFS=$'\n' eval ' for i in... (4 Replies)

7. What is on Your Mind?

Gents, I have been working in a Solaris/Unix environment for about 9 months. I took some linux classses online before getting the job. But, I am not very good at scripting. I want to learn how to script. Do you think that I should start with Shell scripting or Perl? I wanted to continue with... (2 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all, some small script with eval turned me to crazy. my OS is linux Linux s10-1310 2.6.16.53-0.8.PTF.434477.3.TDC.0-smp #1 SMP Fri Aug 31 06:07:27 PDT 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux below script works well #!/bin/bash eval ssh remotehost date eval ssh remotehost ls below... (1 Reply)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

anyone has any info on why this is complaining??? vivek@vivek-c5e55ef2e ~/TAC $ zoneCounter=1 vivek@vivek-c5e55ef2e ~/TAC $ optUsage1=23% vivek@vivek-c5e55ef2e ~/TAC $ eval eval echo "<th>Zone $zoneCounter </th><th align=\"left\"> \$optUsage$zoneCounter </th>" -bash: syntax error... (1 Reply)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

anyone has any info on why this is complaining??? vivek@vivek-c5e55ef2e ~/TAC $ zoneCounter=1 vivek@vivek-c5e55ef2e ~/TAC $ optUsage1=23% vivek@vivek-c5e55ef2e ~/TAC $ eval eval echo "<th>Zone $zoneCounter </th><th align=\"left\"> \$optUsage$zoneCounter </th>" -bash: syntax error... (13 Replies)