09-27-2009
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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
i wrote a while script as part of a huge program. this script, once picked, begins to output data to the person using it. pretty easy, as the person doesn't have to keep typing commands to get the output that the while loop automatically throws out.
now, the thing is, while this while-script... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: Terrible
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
Can someone let me know how i can exit a for loop without exiting the script itself .... will the break statement work ....
please help ....
-Regards (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Rohini Vijay
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi guys,
I'm new to unix but loving it!! BUT this is driving me nuts as i can't work out the best way to do it.
I have a while true loop that i use to monitor something. For my own reasons in ths script i have disabled the CTRL C using the trap command. But i want to put in a option to exit... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: Noob e
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
im running a while loop as a file watcher, with incremental counter on the retries..however when the retries reach it's limit i want it exit and echo and error and stop the batch. Im not sure the code i have will do that already...
Here is what i have that works:
#!/usr/bin/ksh
count=0... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: sigh2010
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am trying to print 1st, 2nd, 13th and 14th fields of a file of line numbers from 29 to 10029. I dont know how to put this in one code. Currently I am removing the selected lines by
awk 'NR==29,NR==10029' File1 > File2
and then doing
awk '{print $1, $2, $13, $14}' File2 > File3
Can... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: ananyob
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
hi,
how to exit from "if" loop?actually i have mutliple "if" conditions, i have to exit from each "if" loop,if it is true...:confused:
Please suggest me... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: sreelu
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi
I would like to exit the loop below on <Enter> even if it sleeps. Is it possible?
while true
do
my_procedure;
sleep 60
done
Thanks (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: zam
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
This code is used to check for duplicate ip and hostnames in an /etc/hosts file
CENTRAL is path to /etc/hosts
AWK =awk
#check CENTRAL for duplicate ips or hostnames#
grep -v "^#" $CENTRAL | $AWK '{ print $1, $2; }' | \
while read ip hostname
do
if... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: trimike
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9. Emergency UNIX and Linux Support
Below for loop not exiting. Can someone help?
JBOSS_INST_ARGS=01 02
if ; then
for i in $JBOSS_INST_ARGS; do
/u/jboss-6.1.0.Final/bin/jboss_init_wise$i.sh start;
done (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: vino_hymi
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10. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
Hi Folks -
Here is a for loop I've created and I just wanted to see if this was okay practice:
for M in NAME1 NAME1 NAME3
do
echo "Executing MaxL:" $M >>${_LOGFILE} 2>&1
. ${_STARTMAXLPATH}startmaxl.sh ${_MAINPATH}${_MAXLPATH}$M.mxl
_RC=$?
if
then
... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: SIMMS7400
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
gpe-question
GPE-QUESTION(1) gpe-question GPE-QUESTION(1)
NAME
gpe-question - GPE interface for asking questions from shell scripts.
SYNOPSIS
gpe-question [---icon] name {--question "Question text"} {--buttons icon1:text1} [icon2:text2 ...]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page was written for the Debian(TM) distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.
gpe-question provides dialogues to raise a question within the GPE Palmtop Environment with cancel and ok buttons.
OPTIONS
--question STRING
The question to ask the user via the dialogue.
--buttons type:label
The type and label of the button(s) to be shown. Repeat for additional buttons.
EXAMPLES
gpe-question "test" --question "Do you want to check first?" --buttons YES:yes NO:no
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Neil Williams <codehelp@debian.org> for the Debian(TM) system (but may be used by others). Permission is
granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version
published by the Free Software Foundation.
On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.
AUTHOR
Moray Allen
Author.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2007 Neil Williams
Debian 1 January 16, 2007 GPE-QUESTION(1)