1. Shell Programming and Scripting

I'm using the UNIX csh and i wish to use recursion to nav my way up (or down as it is) a given folder. My little test script is called "r" and takes a folder as argv (or $1) #!/bin/tcsh -f set allFiles = `ls -A $argv` cd $argv while ($#allFiles) if (-d... (1 Reply)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

I am running a korn shell script which has a recursive function. The script ran for 117 iterations and ended up with the following error "recursion too deep". what should be done to avert this? Thanks in advance Swamy p.s. I am on UNIX MPRAS V4 (3 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello ! I need some help with my simple bash script. This script removes all files ( with name given in $1 ) in current dir and subdirectories . The problem is with first loop in the script ( for file in * ; do ) . When I run the sript in my home directory this script display sometimes( ... (5 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello every body. I am trying to find the factorial using the following code. But it is giving the syntax error. I tried very much but in vain. Thanks in advance for helping me factorial() { if then y=`expr $1 - 1` x=$(( $1 \* factorial $y ))... (6 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, If i have given to write a prog for factorial in C using recursion and without recursion which one is better in what condition and why ? thanks (2 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi folks, I need to write a script which remove files with suffix *.dmp from a specific directory ,older than 30 days and not including recursive subdirectories. I.e: The following command remove recursive all *.dmp files older than 30 days: find $ORACLE_BASE -mtime +30 -type f -name... (5 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, I'm scripting a newbie. I'm using KSH on HP-UX. I'm trying to write a script that will change a whole directory of file names into UPPER CASE. I have the "convert to upper case" part of it working fine: ls | while read filename; do typeset -u uppercase uppercase=${filename} ... (2 Replies)

8. Programming

I want to halt a tail recursive function after certain validation. I want to come out of entire recursion without unwinding phase. How can i achieve that . The coding is done in C language. (5 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Can someone please explain me why the following script calls it self recursively: #!/bin/bash echo Called $0 while this not: #!/bin/bash echo Called $($0) Thanks (6 Replies)

10. Solaris

Hi, I am trying to disable the recursion on DNS server (Solaris 10). I have added the lines in the named.conf as below: allow-query-cache { none; }; recursion no; Then restarted the solaris DNS services svcadm refresh svc:/network/dns/server:default Still I am able to... (0 Replies)