I'm not what else should be in the script - outputting the unique numbers from the script invoked from cron does not make much sense. You probably want to do something else with the those unique numbers.
Hi guys!
I have just started with shell programming!!
I am having pronblem with variable subsitutuion.
when i do
egrep "*" marks
this will give me the pattern match.
but how can i catch the output of that result in a variable.
if i say
result = egrep "*" marks
it gives me syntax... (2 Replies)
Hi Guys,
I am trying to alter a script for my company.
I need the start of it to go something like this.
User is asked to input 8 numbers
8 numbers are written to a txt file
***** ***** ***** txt file is read ***** *****
The text file gets read in between other files represented by... (2 Replies)
Hi all,
i am beginner to unix and trying out a shell script which does the following. i have to calculate a persons salary. his salary is read from the keyboard. he has two types of deductions. 40% as dearness allowance and 20% as house rent. i have to print the gross salary. here is the code... (5 Replies)
I need to invoke a program on remote server using ssh in a shell script. In addition i would like to capture date/time and if there is any errors , then script should write to log file. can someone please help me out? (1 Reply)
Hi,
I have a file in which records contains non ascii characters. The records are comma delimited and quoted.
The non ascii characters are found in a particular column.
Example records
"YY","AK000021","Ã","IO","PP"
"Y1","AK000022","Ã","PO","PP"
"Y2","AK000022","Ã","PO","PP"
I need to... (2 Replies)
HELP!My program ends after entering one choice---need help making it take multiple inputs,instead of terminating after displaying just one
#!/bin/bash# Crude address databaseclear # Clear the screen.echo " Contact List"echo " ------- ----"echo "Choose one of the following... (6 Replies)
hi guys
we've had nagios spewing false alarm (for the umpteenth time) and finally the customer had enough so they're starting to question nagios. we had the check interval increased from 5 minutes to 2 minutes, but that's just temporary solution. I'm thinking of implementing a script on the... (8 Replies)
I need to create digit day script that takes a single numeric argument and then it should print out the day of the week using the number modulo 7 formula e.g: 0 - Sunday 6- Saturday 131 - Friday
I am fairly new to unix so I don't know how to use the number modulo 7 formula.
Does the script need... (3 Replies)
So I'm trying to pass certain json elements as env vars and use them later on in a script.
Sample json:
JSON='{
"Element1": "file-123456",
"Element2": "Name, of, company written in, a very weird way",
"Element3": "path/to/some/file.txt",
}'
(part of the) script:
for s... (5 Replies)
In Bash shell - the ps -ef shows only the /bin/bash but the script name is not displayed ? Is there any way to get the script names for the process command ?
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in KSH (Korn Shell), my command output shows the script names but when run in the Bash Shell... (3 Replies)
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mktemp
MKTEMP(1) BSD General Commands Manual MKTEMP(1)NAME
mktemp -- make temporary file name (unique)
SYNOPSIS
mktemp [-d] [-q] [-u] template
DESCRIPTION
The mktemp utility takes the given file name template and overwrites a portion of it to create a file name. This file name is unique and
suitable for use by the application. The template may be any file name with at least 6 of 'Xs' appended to it, for example /tmp/temp.XXXXXX.
The trailing 'Xs' are replaced with the current process number and/or a unique letter combination. The number of unique file names mktemp
can return depends on the number of 'Xs' provided; six 'Xs' will result in mktemp testing roughly 26 ** 6 combinations.
If mktemp can successfully generate a unique file name, the file is created with mode 0600 (unless the -u flag is given) and the filename is
printed to standard output.
OPTIONS
The available options are as follows:
-d Make a directory instead of a file.
-q Fail silently if an error occurs. This is useful if a script does not want error output to go to standard error.
-u Operate in ``unsafe'' mode. The temp file will be unlinked before mktemp exits. This is slightly better than mktemp(3) but still
introduces a race condition. Use of this option is not encouraged.
RETURN VALUES
The mktemp utility exits with a value of 0 on success, and 1 on failure.
EXAMPLES
The following sh(1) fragment illustrates a simple use of mktemp where the script should quit if it cannot get a safe temporary file.
TMPFILE=`mktemp /tmp/$0.XXXXXX` || exit 1
echo "program output" >> $TMPFILE
In this case, we want the script to catch the error itself.
TMPFILE=`mktemp -q /tmp/$0.XXXXXX`
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
echo "$0: Can't create temp file, exiting..."
exit 1
fi
Note that one can also check to see that $TMPFILE is zero length instead of checking $?. This would allow the check to be done later one in
the script (since $? would get clobbered by the next shell command).
SEE ALSO mkstemp(3), mktemp(3)HISTORY
The mktemp utility appeared in OpenBSD.
BSD November, 20, 1996 BSD