1. Shell Programming and Scripting

hi guys, i have an array called ARRAY which has elements in it... i am trying to assign elements of ARRAY to master_array.. i get a =: command not found error.. i=0 while do ${master_array}=${ARRAY} ((i++)) done is there something i am missing? (4 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi! Could someone explain me why the below code is printing the contents of IF block 5 times instead of 0? #!/bin/bash VAR1="something" VAR2="something" for((i=0;i<10;i++)) do if(($VAR1=~$VAR2)) then echo VAR1: $VAR1 echo... (3 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hey guys, I'm kinda a noob at scripting. I am trying to create a script that uses multiple for loops with the lsiutility to monitor disk health on a system. The script runs, but it will continually echo an infinite number of LogVolumes when there are only 2 per virtual disk on my server. It's... (2 Replies)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello All, i have a really strange copy paste problem. When I write some loops in an editor for example: for j in 1 2 3 do echo "$j" done and I want to paste it to the shell, the result in the shell is: for j in 1 2 3; do e; other commands work fine and if a copy paste... (4 Replies)

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi All, I've been researching this problem and I am pretty sure that the issue is related to the while loop and the piping. There are plenty of other threads about this issue that recommend removing the pipe and using redirection. However, I haven't been able to get it working using the ssh and... (1 Reply)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, This is probably going to be very simple but i came across something i can't quite explain. Here is the situation: i have a list of files, which i'd like to process one by one (get the size, make some tests, whatever) and generate some statistics using different variables. Something... (5 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

hello i'm writing a script and I want to use a for loop inside a while loop as following: while read line; do echo $line for i in $vrm; do echo $i done done < './contacts' when i use just the while loop it prints the lines from file ./contacts just... (13 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

What is the proper way to run two bash loops in the same command? The two below loops run separately, the problem is when I pipe them I get an error that the file used for the second loop does not exist. I am not sure how to wait for the first loop to complete and then start the second. Thank... (10 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, Below I try to control that the input is good an IP : #!/bin/bash cp /home/scripts/choice_interfaces.txt /home/scripts/interfaces.txt chmod 644 /home/scripts/interfaces.txt echo -e "Please enter the network informations into the /etc/network/interfaces file, complete them below... (9 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have 3 loops that I use to determine the permission level of AWS user accounts. This array lists the AWS policy ARN (Amazon Resource Name): for ((policy_index=0;policy_index<${#aws_managed_policies};++policy_index)); do aws_policy_arn="${aws_managed_policies}" ... (1 Reply)