I need to run a 4ge from within my shell script and capture the string value that is being returned into a unix variable. I have tried the back ticks to no avail. I know it is returning because I did get the returned value to go to my screen at one point..
What I have is:
sendlist =... (3 Replies)
greetings all,
I am have a heck of a time trying to accomplish a very simple thing. I have an array of "shortname<spaces>id" created from a dscl output. I want to assign shortname=word1 and id=word2. I have tried
shortname=$(${textArray} | awk '{print $1}') - and get 'awk : cannot open... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I confess to be stuck ...
as explained here
Aliases - Bash Reference Manual
I added
shopt -s expand_aliasesto my script ... but it didn't work.
Later I've read I had to add this at the begning of my my script :
. ~/.bash_aliases(of course my aliases are in this file)
but again, the... (0 Replies)
Hi, wondering if it's been asked before but didn't find matches from google. Basically I have this line:
myvar=$(echo -e "a\tb")
Now somehow the '\t' from the echo output gets replaced with white space and then stored in $myvar.
It creates a problem for me later to use tab as delimiter to do... (2 Replies)
Hello,
I am writing a script that has to log in to X number of servers over a full C class range.
I am only keyed on a certain number of these servers and this can change from time to time.
The part of my script that deals with this is
for i in $(cat $server_list); do
ssh ... (0 Replies)
i want to save the output of /scripts/whoowns domain.com to a username
like $user = /scripts/whoowns domain.com
but I'm not sure how to do that
This is inside a bash script
how can I get the output of /scripts/whoowns
then save that to a variable?
thanks!
---------- Post updated at... (0 Replies)
Hi, I'm new to korn and having trouble capturing the text output from one program in an array that I can then feed into another program. Direct approaches didn't work, so I've tried to break it down thus:
The program lonlat2pixline gives the values I need in the second column, so I print that... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I have a problem with passing a echo output into a variable in bash
file='1990.tar'
NAME='echo $file | cut -d '.' -f1';
echo $NAME
the result is
echo $file | cut -d . -f1
however with this one,#!/bin/bash
file='1990.tar'
echo $file | cut -d '.' -f1
the result is what I... (2 Replies)
Hi Experts,
I'm writing script to find out last files and its modified date - unfortunately am having problem with the below script.
Error message:
"grep: sales.txt: No such file or directory"
#!/bin/bash
var=1
var1=`awk '{n++} END {print n}' sales.txt`
while ]
do
prod=$var... (6 Replies)
In the else of the main if condition .
else
set lnk = $(readlink -f <path> | cut -d '/' -f7)
echo "$lnk"
if ]
When I run the above on command line , the execution seems to be fine and I get the desired output. But when I try to assign it to a variable within a loop... (12 Replies)