I want to set a variable to be any number of dashes. Rather than doing the following:
MYVAR="------------------"
I'd like to be able to set the variable to, say, 80 dashes but don't want to have to count 80 dashes. Is there a way to do this? (2 Replies)
My oracle account uses tsch to use .cshrc. "Somehow" it was switch to sh and changed the login environment.
My question is who has the right to change sh to tsch or other shells? How can I change back the original setting(tsch) from sh?
This is what is appear in my /etc/passwd:
... (2 Replies)
L=0
cat test.sh | while read line
do
L='expr $1 + 1'
echo $L
done
echo $l
>>> the echo $L at the end produces 0 but i actually want it to produce the number of lines - any idea why this is happening? (16 Replies)
How do you set a varible with information that contains a string and also another variable? For example:
subject="Attention: $name / This $type needs your attention"
The $xxxx are of course other variables that I instantiated earlier. Is it like Java where you have to use double quotes and... (1 Reply)
In my script, I have the following command....
du -sk `ls -ltd sales12|awk '{print $11}'`|awk '{print $1}'
it returns the value
383283
I want to modify my script to capture that value into a variable. So, I try doing the following...
var1=`du -sk `ls -ltd sales12|awk '{print... (5 Replies)
I am working within a while loop and i am trying to set a variable that will read out each count of the files. the problem is the count variable i have set up gives me a total and not the individual count of each file. in the data area there is 4 abc.dat and 1 def.dat.
how can i do this???
... (2 Replies)
#! /usr/tsch
foreach f (`cat contacts.list`)
awk '{printf ($2 in a) ? ","$5 : (NR>1) ? RS $2 FS $5 : $2 FS $5; a} END{print e}' $f > $f_inter.map
end
My file: cat contacts.list is just a list of files.
I get this error:
doit_contacts2intermap.sh: Command not found.
Thanks! (1 Reply)
Hi,
I am new to shell scripting.I tried adding an entry to the path variable like below
export PATH=$PATH:/opt/xxx/bin
But am getting an error invalid identifier /opt/xxx/bin
Can someone tell me the error above and correct me .
Thanks and Regards,
Padmini (2 Replies)
Hi Everyone,
I am using gdb-7.5 to connect to the target. When I gave the./configure --target=xyz --build=i686-pc-mingw32 --host=i686-pc-mingw32 command then
checking build system type... i686-pc-mingw32
checking host system type... i686-pc-mingw32
checking target system type... xyz-mingw32... (3 Replies)
Hey everyone,
I am almost done with this assignment I have to do but there is one last thing nagging me that I can't seem to find. In my script I am feeding line by line to a ./test file and I am getting the return answer correctly. The goal is to test the current script (check.sh) and if it's... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: tastybrownies
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
suspend
suspend(1) User Commands suspend(1)NAME
suspend - shell built-in function to halt the current shell
SYNOPSIS
sh
suspend
csh
suspend
ksh
suspend
DESCRIPTION
sh
Stops the execution of the current shell (but not if it is the login shell).
csh
Stop the shell in its tracks, much as if it had been sent a stop signal with ^Z. This is most often used to stop shells started by su.
ksh
Stops the execution of the current shell (but not if it is the login shell).
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO csh(1), kill(1), ksh(1), sh(1), su(1M), attributes(5)SunOS 5.10 15 Apr 1994 suspend(1)