Hi, I am trying to use swremove to remove some old software packages before an upgrade. I keep getting the same error below. I have restarted swagent, i have killed the swagent process and started it, and I have restarted the entire system. I have now run out of ideas. Anyone know what the problem... (0 Replies)
Hi, I am trying to use swremove to remove some old software packages before an upgrade. I keep getting the same error below. I have restarted swagent, i have killed the swagent process and started it, and I have restarted the entire system. I have now run out of ideas. Anyone know what the problem... (2 Replies)
Sorry for the duplicate thread this one is similar to the one in
https://www.unix.com/shell-programming-scripting/88132-awk-sed-script-read-values-parameter-files.html#post302255121
Since there were no responses on the parent thread since it got resolved partially i thought to open the new... (4 Replies)
hello friends,
I am given a project to handle the command not found exception.I am using RED HAT 9. Generally, when we press a wrong command in the terminal: example :-
" $cet " in place of " $cat ". Then we get this exception. But I need to give the output as the combinations that are possible... (5 Replies)
Okay, title is kind of confusion, but basically, I have a lot of scripts on a server that I need to replace a ps command, however, the new ps command I'm trying to replace the current one with pipes to sed at one point. So now I am attempting to create another script that replaces that line.
... (1 Reply)
I know this script is crummy, but I was just messing around.. how do I get sed's insert command to allow variable expansion to show the filename?
#!/bin/bash
filename=`echo $0`
/usr/bin/sed '/#include/ {
i\
the filename is `$filename`
}' $1
exit 0 (8 Replies)
Sometimes when I try to use curl to upload to an ftp server, I get the message:
$curl -T file.wmv ftp.eu.filesonic.com --user user:password
curl: (8) Got a 421 ftp-server response when 220 was expected
How do I get the script to try again if I get the message curl: (8)? (2 Replies)
Hi Folks,
please advise , I have logs generated on unix machine at location /ops/opt/aaa/bvg.log , now sometimes there come exception in these logs also, so I want to write such a script such that it should continuously monitor these logs and whenever any exception comes that is it try to find... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I am running a script sample.sh in bash environment .In the script i am using sed and awk commands which when executed individually from terminal they are getting executed normally but when i give these sed and awk commands in the script it is giving the below errors :-
./sample.sh: line... (12 Replies)
Hi All,
I'm relatively new to Unix scripting and am trying to get my head around piping.
I'm trying to take a header record from one file and prepend it to another file. I've done this by creating several temp files but i'm wondering if there is a cleaner way to do this.
I'm thinking... (10 Replies)
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read
read(1) General Commands Manual read(1)NAME
read - read a line from standard input
SYNOPSIS
var ...
DESCRIPTION
reads a single line from standard input. The line is split into fields as when processed by the shell (refer to shells in the first field
is assigned to the first variable var, the second field to the second variable var, and so forth. If there are more fields than there are
specified var operands, the remaining fields and their intervening separators are assigned to the last var. If there are more vars than
fields, the remaining vars are set to empty strings.
The setting of variables specified by the var operands affect the current shell execution environment.
Standard input to can be redirected from a text file.
Since affects the current shell execution environment, it is usually provided as a normal shell special (built-in) command. Thus, if it is
called in a subshell or separate utility execution environment similar to the following, it does not affect the shell variables in the
caller's environment:
Options
recognizes the following options:
Do not treat a backslash character in any special way.
Consider each backslash to be part of the input line.
Opperands
recognizes the following operands:
var The name of an existing or nonexisting shell variable.
EXTERNAL INFLUENCES
Environment Variables
determines the internal field separators used to delimit fields.
RETURN VALUE
exits with one of the following values:
0 Successful completion.
>0 End-of-file was detected or an error occurred.
EXAMPLES
Print a file with the first field of each line moved to the end of the line.
while read -r xx yy
do
printf "%s %s
" "$yy" "$xx"
done < input_file
SEE ALSO csh(1), ksh(1), sh(1), sh-posix(1).
STANDARDS CONFORMANCE read(1)