1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hey all. I have written a script to clear all of the context records from our scanning guns. The problem is, whenever I run the script, it just freezes and does nothing. I'm not getting any errors so I'm not exactly sure what I'm doing wrong. Here is the script... #!/bin/ksh... (1 Reply)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi guys: I am trying to delete multiple files in a folder with different names. Below is the script that I was trying, but it doesn't work ************************** #!/bin/ksh DATE=`date '+20%y%m%d'` DEL_DIR=<dir where files have to be deleted> let DATE2=$(($DATE - 2)) let DATE1=$(($DATE... (12 Replies)

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

for FNAME in `find /unixs/apps/sqr/ -type f -exec grep -il unixs {} \;`; do C=`grep -c unixs ${FNAME}`; echo "${C}:${FNAME}" >> /unixs/apps/cibcur01.txt; done I have this statement but I only want to look for my string in file types .sql, .KSH,.sh files. How can I accomplish this? (2 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

cmd="find /a/technologies -name '*.jar' | grep \"Tuning/specificloader/lib\"" echo $cmd for index in `$cmd` do SL_JARS="${SL_JARS}:${index}" done gives error ==> find: paths must precede expression Usage: find but for index in... (2 Replies)

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, How do you echo something once when a find statement returns null results? This is when using mutiple locations and mutiple arguments. The below find command the inner loop of a nested for loop where the outter loop holds the $args and the inner loop holds the locations. find... (2 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

I'm trying to create what (should be) a simple bash script that will pull computer name and use that info to bind to one of three servers. Is there any way to do this without having a text file with the names of the servers and associated computer names? (5 Replies)

7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I need to check if an entry input by the user is in a file. If so, I need to run a command, and if it does not exist then it should output entry does not exist. So I have so far... echo "Enter record:" read record //command || //command Can I use an if statement to do this? (3 Replies)

8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

When I try the below if Condition with single condition its working fine. But when I try to Club both its working . But giving wrong results. In my case cond1 = -f ${filename1} = true cond2 = -f ${filename2} = true But Cond1 & Cond2 is resulting in False ??? Please advise ... (5 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hey guys/gals, I am feeling extremely rusty today and having a problem with a monitoring script I am writing. I am trying to write a monitor using a entry in a line in log file. I can get the entry extracted from the file to a temp file. But when I try and do the if statement for the greater... (3 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi guys..i'm totally new to linux shell scripting and i have written a simple script that allows to poll a directory and when there is at least one file, it is moved to another directory. But i have an error in the if statement " Syntax error: "then" unexpected (expecting "done")" #!/bin/bash... (2 Replies)