Thanks for the suggestion, but that won't do what I need: it would only process the last option (tdiwefo) specified before the -m. I want to 'log' for each message category specified in the -tdiwefo option.
What I really want to do is:
where $1 is some combination of the letters t, d, i, w, e, f, o.
I thought I could use "getopts" instead of "$(some_command_to_separate $1 into letters)".
Anyway ... any idea about the mysterious underscores in my original message (or an elegant way to "$(some_command_to_separate $1 into letters)" )?
I wrote a script that uses getopts and it works fine. However, I would like to put the function in that script in a startup file (.kshrc or .profile). I took the "main" portion of the script and made it a function in the startup script. I source the startup script but it doesn't seem to parse... (4 Replies)
having trouble with this seemingly simple taks.. :mad:
Test data:
we want to keep lines 2,3 & 4
-- want to exclude when ${.*schema} is preceded with an underscore; Valid {.*schema} should always be preceded spaces or be found at the beginning of a line.
egrep... (5 Replies)
I must design a UNIX script to monitor files whose size is over a threshold of 5 MB in a specific UNIX directory
I meet a problem during the for loop in my script. Some file names contain spaces.
ls -lrt | awk '$5>=5000000 && length($8)==5 {gsub(/ /,"_",$9); print};'
-rw-r--r-- 1 was61 ... (2 Replies)
Hi
I'm trying to create an array with variable including hyphen
but ksh refuses the first element
set -A allArgs
set +A allArgs ${allArgs} -all
set +A allArgs ${allArgs} -date
set +A allArgs ${allArgs} test
./test.ksh: -all: bad option(s)
It happens only when first element is like... (4 Replies)
Hi All
I have searches getopts function in Perl a lot, but yet i didn't cleared with it.
First I want to know what is the meaning of
getopts('t:c:', \%options);
and please explain getopts function in an easy way.. (4 Replies)
Hi,
I have two types of file names
filename1_12345 or filename1-12345 at the same time I have second type
filename2-12345 in a txt file.
I am trying to write awk script that will sort these names with below pattern
ALL file names like
filename1_12345 and filename1-12345 will go to... (1 Reply)
I am trying to make a Shell Script in KSH on Linux box and Solaris box which takes few arguments... with long options using getopts (not getopt).
I have my sample code... at the end I will say my requirement... Please help me folks...
$ cat dummy
#!/bin/bash
# Argument = -t test -r server... (6 Replies)
Hello Friends,
I would appreciate so much if you could explain how the underscores works at the following code? Sorry if it sounds a bit novice question.
awk -F',' 'NR==FNR{_=1;next}!_{print}' exclude infile
KR,
Eagle (6 Replies)
I know that this basic question has been asked many times and solutions all over the internet, but none of the are working for me. I have a directory in the root directory, named "-p".
# ls -l /
total 198
<snip>
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Dec 3 14:18 opt
drwxr-xr-x 2 root ... (2 Replies)
I asked this question last month in Stack Exchange (linux - delete directory with leading hyphen - Server Fault) and none of the answers supplied worked.
I have somehow created a directory with a leading hyphen and cannot get rid of it.
# ls -li | grep p
2621441 drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root... (4 Replies)