No not really. What could have happened is that his input files simply did not have asterisks in them. It could also be that he set globbing to off (i.e. no asterisk expansion) in his shell (not very likely) It could also be that he always executed the script from an empty directory, in which case the asterisk would also not get expanded. To illustrate:
Code:
$ mkdir test
$ cd test
$ echo *
*
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At first, give my best wish for all MOD and admins here. I"m learning bash shell program just for a month, not too much, not too little, but i must admire that i'm very bad at math and algorithm. :(
I want to do this :
Read the content of a file line by line and at each line, ask me want to... (3 Replies)
I am using the while-loop to read a file.
The file has lines with null-terminated strings (words, actually.)
What I have by that reading - just a first word up to '\0'!
I need to have whole string up to 'new line' - (LF, 10#10, 16#A)
What I am doing wrong?
#make file 'grb' with... (6 Replies)
Hi - I don't understand why the following script isn't working. I want to read the contents of a while loop into an array, but it looks like the array is destroyed once the while loop is finished. Can anybody help?
someFile:
PC_1 wf_test1 Test
PC_2 wf_test2 Test
PC_3 wf_test3 Test
Script:... (3 Replies)
Hi ,
I am trying to write an shell, which reads a text file (from a location) having a list of numbers of strictly 5 digits only ex: 33144
Now my script will check :
1) that each entry is only 5 digits & numeric only, no alphabets, & its not empty.
2)then it executes a shell script called... (8 Replies)
Hi All,
I'm trying to figure out which are the trusted-ips and which are not using a script file.. I have a file named 'ip-list.txt' which contains some ip addresses and another file named 'trusted-ip-list.txt' which also contains some ip addresses. I want to read a line from... (4 Replies)
Hello,
I need a program that read a file line by line and prints out lines 1, 2 & 3 after an empty line... An example of entries in the file would be:
SRVXPAPI001 ERRO JUN24 07:28:34 1775
REASON= 0000, PROCID= #E506 #1065: TPCIPPR, INDEX= 003F
... (8 Replies)
Hi All,
Am trying to write wrapper shell/bash script on a utility tool for which i need to pass 2 files as arugment to execute utility tool.
Wraper script am trying is to do with above metion 2 files.
utility tool accepts :
a. userinfo file : which contains username
b. item file : which... (2 Replies)
Hi all,
I have a log file say Test.log that gets updated continuously and it has data in pipe separated format. A sample log file would look like:
<date1>|<data1>|<url1>|<result1>
<date2>|<data2>|<url2>|<result2>
<date3>|<data3>|<url3>|<result3>
<date4>|<data4>|<url4>|<result4>
What I... (3 Replies)
Heyas
I'm trying to read/display a file its content and put borders around it (tui-cat / tui-cat -t(ypwriter).
The typewriter-part is a 'bonus' but still has its own flaws, but thats for later.
So in some way, i'm trying to rewrite cat using bash and other commands.
But sadly it fails on... (2 Replies)
i have a text file as belows, it includes 2 columns, 1st is the column name, 2nd is the file_name
data_file.txt
column_name file_name
col1 file1
col2 file2
col3 file1
col4 file1
col5 file2
now, i would like to... (4 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS
exit
exit(1) User Commands exit(1)NAME
exit, return, goto - shell built-in functions to enable the execution of the shell to advance beyond its sequence of steps
SYNOPSIS
sh
exit [n]
return [n]
csh
exit [ ( expr )]
goto label
ksh
*exit [n]
*return [n]
DESCRIPTION
sh
exit will cause the calling shell or shell script to exit with the exit status specified by n. If n is omitted the exit status is that of
the last command executed (an EOF will also cause the shell to exit.)
return causes a function to exit with the return value specified by n. If n is omitted, the return status is that of the last command exe-
cuted.
csh
exit will cause the calling shell or shell script to exit, either with the value of the status variable or with the value specified by the
expression expr.
The goto built-in uses a specified label as a search string amongst commands. The shell rewinds its input as much as possible and searches
for a line of the form label: possibly preceded by space or tab characters. Execution continues after the indicated line. It is an error to
jump to a label that occurs between a while or for built-in command and its corresponding end.
ksh
exit will cause the calling shell or shell script to exit with the exit status specified by n. The value will be the least significant 8
bits of the specified status. If n is omitted then the exit status is that of the last command executed. When exit occurs when executing
a trap, the last command refers to the command that executed before the trap was invoked. An end-of-file will also cause the shell to exit
except for a shell which has the ignoreeof option (See set below) turned on.
return causes a shell function or '.' script to return to the invoking script with the return status specified by n. The value will be the
least significant 8 bits of the specified status. If n is omitted then the return status is that of the last command executed. If return
is invoked while not in a function or a '.' script, then it is the same as an exit.
On this man page, ksh(1) commands that are preceded by one or two * (asterisks) are treated specially in the following ways:
1. Variable assignment lists preceding the command remain in effect when the command completes.
2. I/O redirections are processed after variable assignments.
3. Errors cause a script that contains them to abort.
4. Words, following a command preceded by ** that are in the format of a variable assignment, are expanded with the same rules as a vari-
able assignment. This means that tilde substitution is performed after the = sign and word splitting and file name generation are not
performed.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO break(1), csh(1), ksh(1), sh(1), attributes(5)SunOS 5.10 15 Apr 1994 exit(1)