1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I have a 1-line file which looks like " First second third 4 five". I need to extract the number (here 4) in that line and put it in a variable. I will use the variable later to make few tests in my C shell script. Can somebody help me? (2 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

the script i am trying to write will allow my server to give itself an ip address. So far i am up to the following but i'm stuck. tracert -m 1 > traceroute.txt 1 routername (ipaddr) 2.094 ms 1.789 ms 1.243 ms i want to get ipaddr as a variable and use it to write the ifcfg-eth... (7 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi I have written a script using ftp to get files from one server and copy them to 2 dirrerent servers. I wish to call this script from a parent script that will check the number of files copied and run a check sum for each file. As the filenames for the files in the get portion of the script... (3 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Solaris 10 Korn shell ksh, Hi there, I have figured out to get yesterday's date which is using the below command: TZ=GMT+24; date +%d-%b-%Y to get the format of 30-Sep-2008 and TZ=GMT+24; date +%Y%m%d to get the format of 20080930. I need this two format. In my perl script below I need... (4 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all, I want write a csh script which must be able: 1.read a file 2.assign value in file as variable and can i use read in csh script? thx (2 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a directory where i have *.sas; *.pl;*.sh and *.c scripts I need to find out what are the child scripts and input output files for each script: say I have a shell script which calls a perl script and a sas script: In my first line I want I a) the parent script name; b) the... (1 Reply)

7. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hi, I am facing a challenge in fixing an issue in my installation scripts.Here is a situation: There are 3 files which are invoked at a below given order: Installer.ksh----->Installer.xml(Ant script)------->common.ksh I am outputting a message from common.ksh at a terminal, after that trying to... (3 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

I need to read a text file that contain columns of data, i need to read 1st column as a function to call, and others are the data i need to get into a ksh script. I am quite new to ksh scripting, i am not very sure how to read each row line by line and the data in each columns of that line, set... (3 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

hi, i have a text file which conatins some fields delimited by space. some fields contains * as entries. cron_file.txt 0 * * * * 0 3 * * * i want to read each line 1 by 1 and store each field in seperate variables n a shell script. i am unable to read the field that contains a *. how... (3 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, How I can read on variable with cycle for in bash script e.g.#!/bin/bash VAR1=`command1 sentence list` for i in $(cat $VAR1); do VAR2=`command2 $i` echo $VAR2 doneSo read VAR1 execute command over this and load in VAR2 then print VAR2, Thanks you, Please wrap... (1 Reply)