I have been following a tutorial on bash which has proven to be very helpful. However, i am stuck with a command not found issue when asking for a y/n response from the user. Below is the part of code I believe is giving me grief... I have been trying to work through this for 3 hours now.... Please let me know if you see anything here or need a larger sample of code to review.
Thanks very much...
Dear All,
I'm trying to write a shell script that continously checks a certain folder. When a file is placed in the directory securely copies the file to another server.
I've got the secure copying working, but I don't know how to contiously check a directory for a new file and then use that... (3 Replies)
I have a folder with lots of file. e.g. a.txt, b.txt, c.txt.... I want to put these files from the source directory and place them in a destination directory in a specific order, such as /destination/a/a.txt, /destination/b/b.txt, /destination/c/c.txt, ......
Please help. Thx :confused: (3 Replies)
Hi,
I was using AIX - ksh shell , and inorder to debug shell script I used set -vx to echo all the commands which are being executed.
Can anybody tell me the corresponding method in HP-UX - in tcsh shell.
Regards
Shihab (1 Reply)
Hi All,
How to debug the unix shell script? which one is the best way to do the debuging ?
suggession would be appreciate
Regards,
Siva P
Bangalore (2 Replies)
Hello, Some one asked me in the inteview.... The question is,
How do we debug the schell script before even running..... Interviewer
told me one clue... There is SET command to accomplish this... Can any
one tell me what kind of set commands.... Thanks. (2 Replies)
. ./testFile.sh
url=http://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/table.csv?s= suf=&d=5&e=9&f=2009&g=d&a=1&b=4&c=1999&ignore=.csv
wget $url$s1$suf;
sleep 10;
cat header.txt > $s1.txt;
chmod 777 $s1.txt;
sed '1d' table.csv?s\=$s1 >> $s1.txt;
rm -Rf table*
Very new at shell scripting as you can see... (3 Replies)
Hello,
I'm new to Sheel script and I need your help for a script I need to develop (for me).
Indead, I have a software which log all entry from internet and save it in text file.
But, the log is practically unreadable because every 256 characters jump to a new line (even if the message is... (5 Replies)
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I am given these three arguments. $1, $2, $3
The first argument is the path to a directory.
So, how would I go into the directory and compare files?
I... (5 Replies)
hi all
only the weirdest thing happened with me just now. I was debugging a shell script and I found that a step that was supposed to execute later was getting executed prior to another step for no reason. You know any ?
i mean have a look at the following command-
here it tries to grep... (7 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
sysprofile
SYSPROFILE(8) System Manager's Manual SYSPROFILE(8)NAME
sysprofile - modular centralized shell configuration
DESCRIPTION
sysprofile is a generic approach to configure shell settings in a modular and centralized way mostly aimed at avoiding work for lazy sysad-
mins. It has only been tested to work with the bash shell.
It basically consists of the small /etc/sysprofile shell script which invokes other small shell scripts having a .bash suffix which are
contained in the /etc/sysprofile.d/ directory. The system administrator can drop in any script he wants without any naming convention
other than that the scripts need to have a .bash suffix to enable automagic sourcing by /etc/sysprofile.
This mechanism is set up by inserting a small shell routine into /etc/profile for login shells and optionally into /etc/bashrc and/or
/etc/bash.bashrc for non-login shells from where the actual /etc/sysprofile script is invoked:
if [ -f /etc/sysprofile ]; then
. /etc/sysprofile
fi
For using "sysprofile" under X11, one can source it in a similar way from /etc/X11/Xsession or your X display manager's Xsession file to
provide the same shell environment as under the console in X11. See the example files in /usr/share/doc/sysprofile/ for illustration.
For usage of terminal emulators with a non-login bash shell under X11, take care to enable sysprofile via /etc/bash.bashrc. If not set
this way, your terminal emulators won't come up with the environment defined by the scripts in /etc/sysprofile.d/.
Users not wanting /etc/sysprofile to be sourced for their environment can easily disable it's automatic mechanism. It can be disabled by
simply creating an empty file called $HOME/.nosysprofile in the user's home directory using e.g. the touch(1) command.
Any single configuration file in /etc/sysprofile.d/ can be overridden by any user by creating a private $HOME/.sysprofile.d/ directory
which may contain a user's own version of any configuration file to be sourced instead of the system default. It's names have just to
match exactly the system's default /etc/sysprofile.d/ configuration files. Empty versions of these files contained in the $HOME/.syspro-
file.d/ directory automatically disable sourcing of the system wide version.
Naturally, users can add and include their own private script inventions to be automagically executed by /etc/sysprofile at login time.
OPTIONS
There are no options other than those dictated by shell conventions. Anything is defined within the configuration scripts themselves.
SEE ALSO
The README files and configuration examples contained in /etc/sysprofile.d/ and the manual pages bash(1), xdm(1x), xdm.options(5), and
wdm(1x). Recommended further reading is everything related with shell programming.
If you need a similar mechanism for executing code at logout time check out the related package syslogout(8) which is a very close compan-
ion to sysprofile.
BUGS
sysprofile in its current form is mainly restricted to bash(1) syntax. In fact it is actually a rather embarrassing quick and dirty hack
than anything else - but it works. It serves the practical need to enable a centralized bash configuration until something better
becomes available. Your constructive criticism in making this into something better" is very welcome. Before i forget to mention it: we
take patches... ;-)
AUTHOR
sysprofile was developed by Paul Seelig <pseelig@debian.org> specifically for the Debian GNU/Linux system. Feel free to port it to and use
it anywhere else under the conditions of either the GNU public license or the BSD license or both. Better yet, please help to make it into
something more worthwhile than it currently is.
SYSPROFILE(8)