1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I am taking a class in UNIX and have written a script that needs to countdown from a number that is read in from the keyboard to zero. If no number is given the start of the countdown should default to 10. I can't get this to do the default #! /bin/sh echo Enter a number here to countdown... (2 Replies)

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please give the difference between AIX shell scripting and Unix shell scripting. (2 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi guys, I've found two nifty little scripts on these forums one which detects if the F5 key has been pressed: #/bin/sh _key() { local kp ESC=$'\e' _KEY= read -d '' -sn1 _KEY case $_KEY in "$ESC") while read -d '' -sn1 -t1 kp do _KEY=$_KEY$kp ... (0 Replies)

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Hello, is it possible to schedule cron jobs using business days instead of calendar days? I need to run several jobs on first and third business days of the month. I currently have this cron-tab entry which runs every week day at 5 AM. I need to schedule the same job on the 3rd Business day of the... (8 Replies)

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, I have a requirement, to pass Fridays date to my job. Here im using ESP scheduler to run the job, but ESP can only pass the date on which it is running. It passes saturday date if it runs on sturday. I can schedule my job on friday so that it can pass firday date, but if for some reason... (6 Replies)

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I am trying to get last 5 business day . trying for d in Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri do date +%Y%m%d -d "last $d" done gives me date Thu Oct 20 23:56:26 EDT 2016 20161017 20161018 20161019 20161013 20161014 expected output should be 20161017 20161018 20161019 20161020 (1 Reply)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

I am trying to get last 5 business day . trying for d in Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri do date +%Y%m%d -d "last $d" done gives me date Thu Oct 20 23:56:26 EDT 2016 20161017 20161018 20161019 20161013 20161014 expected output should be 20161017 20161018 20161019 20161020 (2 Replies)

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Hi , Can anyone help me how do perform below requirement in unix. Step1:we will receive multiple files weekly with same name(as below) in a folder(In folder we will have other files also def.dat,ghf.dat) Filenames: 1) abc_20171204_052389.dat 2)abc_20171204_052428.dat DON'T modify... (23 Replies)