I am not sure where exactly the problem is, but i see at a glance that the script is poorly written:
1) instead of using "&&" and "||" to perform if-statements write them out. It is much easier to read (as well as to debug) that way.
Instead of
or something similar you should write it this way:
If you want to do yourself a favour and make it extra readable, document the more complicated branches by verbosely comment what the branches do. For instance:
2) When you use single quotes in strings make sure they are not misinterpreted as single-quoted strings:
might probably be misinterpreted as a single-quoted string 'ing' with just the closing single quote missing. You have used the single-quotes in "doesn't" several times. Write "does not" instead or - this may work, i haven't tested it - use escaping to mask the single-quotes. for instance:
Hi. I have a kornshell script that runs on a daily basis as a cron job. Part of what the script does is copy the folder contents from another server to the current server (server where KSH script is running).
I have a scp command, as follows:
scp $REMOTE_HOST:$REMOTE_FILE_DIR/* $TMP_DIR
... (8 Replies)
Greetings all,
I'm in the midst of writing a login component for a series of shell scripts. What my login script does is this:
1. Prompt for username and read in username
2. Prompt for destination host and read in destination host
3. run ssh username and destination host
4. After user keys... (0 Replies)
Hi all,
Just like to ask if it is possible to do the following:
1. Have a shell script that calls ssh username@destinationhost
2. Upon successful verification, we ssh into the destination host and automatically use ksh to run a shell script that resides in the destination host. (Hopefully no... (8 Replies)
Hello,
Im a beginner. Im writing a ksh script with awk. Is it possible to assign the output of the awk to a shell variable?
Like,
shell_variable= awk '$1 == "shell" {abc= $2 }' /tmp/cust_det
echo $shell_variable
Please excuse my ignorance. Thanks in advance. (4 Replies)
HI Unix Gurus,
I an stuck in an interesting issue, where I am trying to execute a script on remote server after ssh.
The script on remote server is interactive,. Whenever it is called it hangs where it expects input from terminal and I have to terminate it.
I have searched through fourm... (12 Replies)
Hi guru,
I'm making crazy cause an issue on a ksh shell I made.
In this shell I want to execute unix command on a remote machine using an ssh connection like ssh user@host 'command'.....
The command is very simply, is an ls on a remote directory but it give me an unexpected result.
The... (4 Replies)
HI all, im new to shell scripting. need your guidence for my script. i wrote one script and is attached here
Im explaining the requirement of script.
AIM: Shell script to run automatically as per scheduled and backup few network devices configurations. Script will contain a set of commands... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I am trying to figure out a ksh script that i have and i think i found it but not sure.
i am having to scp or sftp files from my remote server over 2 others to the destination.
i have the rsa keys setup for the servers on my end and the username and password for the final server.
... (3 Replies)
I need a script in ksh that
-automatically connect to computers in a network and identify directories in remote computers
-then mount directories on to the local host where the script is runned
-then backup directories in the local host and the remote systems one by one using tar command (to... (9 Replies)
I have googled this and found many solutions, but none of them are working for me. I am in a korn shell, most others reference bsh, maybe that is the issue? Anyway, all I am trying to do is use a variable I have declared in my main script in a remote shell I am running through ssh.
So I have a... (8 Replies)