All the variables between " " are expanded to their values at runtime. However, if the same variable is put between ' ', it is considered a literal string.
Hi,
could someone pls enlighten me on the difference between the "root" package and "usr" package?
Like in this example:
pkginfo -l SUNWGtku | grep -i desc
DESC: GTK - The GIMP Toolkit (Usr)
and
pkginfo -l SUNWGtkr | grep -i desc
DESC: GTK - The GIMP Toolkit (Root)... (6 Replies)
Hi All,
I know this has been discussed a lot but still I need some more answers. I am running this is ksh on AIX 5.3
I believe putting a "." in front of the script will start a new shell, is that correct??
I have a script which override some PATH variables and it does not do that... (3 Replies)
Hi there.
I used to use
lastdate=`date -v-14d %F`
on my old server with FreeBSD, and now got to get the same result(current date -14 or -X days) in script running at another server, with Linux, but there's no such option for "date".
How can i solve the prob(counting with absolute day number is... (10 Replies)
dear all,
i got some questions about for/while loop when working on redirect command output to for/while loop.
take one for example :
in for loop :
allfiles=`find /var/log -maxdepth 1 -type f -mtime +5`
index=1
for ((i=0; i<${#allfiles}; i++)); do
echo "$index:${allfiles}"
... (2 Replies)
mail:/var/lib/named/proc # ls -l |grep kcore
-r-------- 1 root root 140737486266368 Jun 3 19:47 kcore
mail:/var/lib/named/proc # du -a |grep kcore
0 ./kcore
System is SuSE 11.2 SP1.
The system appears to run correctly, and the output of df -v shows the correct disk... (1 Reply)
I came across and unexpected behavior with redirections in tcsh. I know, csh is not best for redirections, but I'd like to understand what is happening here.
I have following script (called out_to_streams.csh):
#!/bin/tcsh -f
echo Redirected to STDOUT > /dev/stdout
echo Redirected to... (2 Replies)
I'm on Ubuntu 14.04 and I manually updated my coreutils so that "tee" is now on version 8.27
I was running a script using bash where there is some write to pipe error at some point causing the tee command to exit abruptly while the script continues to run. The newer version of tee seems to prevent... (2 Replies)