Thanks for the replies. I tried adding dnl both in the macro and in the file and I still end up with one blank line at the top.
However, the resulting scripts work and if it really bothers me I can pull out a can o' sed on it.
What bothers me is the fact that there does not appear to be rhyme or reason for this behavior. Is m4 truly obsolete and no longer maintained? Other than sendmail is m4 worth the trouble verses using some bloated perl template script?
I hate to make a whing-fest out of a single blank line ...yet ...
Well, here's the pertinent parts for the curious. Maybe I've overlooked something else.
Sample use of macros:
Macros themselves:
A sample run:
You will get a fairly textbook bash script template ...overkill for many tasks, but nice for larger stuff ...with a blank line at the top.
Hi there,
When I run top on my machine it says I have 497M swap space in use, and 380M swap space free,
but I have only allocated 512M swap space to the machine!!!!
Does anyone know how swap used is calculated in the top command?
Thanks... (1 Reply)
Hi everybody,
I want to know if there is any posibility to find out - on an AIX system - which are the the users who consume most space or at least a posibility to obtain a list with all the users and how much space are they consuming ?
Trying to use du command was useless. Any idea?... (5 Replies)
Hi all, I am needing a bash shell script to generate a list of the top 5 users using the most disk space. I am thinking that the du command would be used somehow but I am at a loss. Can anyone help? Thanks! (3 Replies)
for diskname in $(lspv |awk '{print $1}')
do
lquerypv -h /dev/|awk '/'$diskname'/ { print ; exit }'
done
No output is returning from the loop.
I think awk put an extra space to the command - lquerypv -h /dev/
so that the command is executed as i.e. lquerypv -h /dev/ hdisk230 with a space... (7 Replies)
Hi,
Since today, with csh or tcsh, if I do 'ls files* > list',
every lines end with an extra space!
What happenned?
What can I do to go back when there was no extra space?
If I change to bash, there's no extra space.
Thanks,
Patrick
---------- Post updated at 03:19 PM... (1 Reply)
Hi Gurus,
I have a file which contains some special char or space.
when using cat -evt I can see the file as following:
0,"0000","abc/def aaa ... (6 Replies)
Hello,
I have a requirement where i have to spool some data to a file. i have achived the desired target but m facing one issue. i have attached the script and the output.
i checked the data length in the table but it is only 45 for column 1.
can you tell me how to remove these extra... (4 Replies)
I want to see top 5 users,who have occupied most amount of disk space in a filesystem.
But not sure how to do it.
I can get the usage for a particular user
find . -user user -type f exec df -h {} \;|awk '{ s = s+$1 } END { print "Total used: ",s }'
But how to get without specifying any user... (6 Replies)
Hi All
I am trying to perform the below operation -count=`cat abc.txt | wc -l`
echo$count
5
Head=Start"$DATE"00000"$count"File
echo $HEAD
START15020300000 5File
There is a space coming before 5 which is not needed . How to ignore that . (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: honey26
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echo
echo(1B) SunOS/BSD Compatibility Package Commands echo(1B)NAME
echo - echo arguments to standard output
SYNOPSIS
/usr/ucb/echo [-n] [argument]
DESCRIPTION
echo writes its arguments, separated by BLANKs and terminated by a NEWLINE, to the standard output.
echo is useful for producing diagnostics in command files and for sending known data into a pipe, and for displaying the contents of envi-
ronment variables.
For example, you can use echo to determine how many subdirectories below the root directory (/) is your current directory, as follows:
o echo your current-working-directory's full pathname
o pipe the output through tr to translate the path's embedded slash-characters into space-characters
o pipe that output through wc -w for a count of the names in your path.
example% /usr/bin/echo "echo $PWD | tr '/' ' ' | wc -w"
See tr(1) and wc(1) for their functionality.
The shells csh(1), ksh(1), and sh(1), each have an echo built-in command, which, by default, will have precedence, and will be invoked if
the user calls echo without a full pathname. /usr/ucb/echo and csh's echo() have an -n option, but do not understand back-slashed escape
characters. sh's echo(), ksh's echo(), and /usr/bin/echo, on the other hand, understand the black-slashed escape characters, and ksh's
echo() also understands a as the audible bell character; however, these commands do not have an -n option.
OPTIONS -n Do not add the NEWLINE to the output.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWscpu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO csh(1), echo(1), ksh(1), sh(1), tr(1), wc(1), attributes(5)NOTES
The -n option is a transition aid for BSD applications, and may not be supported in future releases.
SunOS 5.11 3 Aug 1994 echo(1B)