Experts,
I tried to make my cshell script interactive by asking the user for password and trying to read the input using the "read" command. I have been unsuccessful so far. Do you have any idea ?
Thanks
Jim (2 Replies)
Linux, C++, make, macro
In source code, we used some #ifdef macros. How can I enable #ifdef macro in the command line of "make" (NOTE: I do NOT want to change source code or makefile to define that macro from time to time).
e.g. test.cpp:
...
#ifdef TEST1
// code segment for test1
...... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I am new to shell scripting.I have written a very simple shell scipt that asks for the username and password on executing. i.e
echo "Enter username :"
read usrname;
echol "Enter password :";
read passwd;
echo usrname;
echo passwd;
but now I want to make it automatic , such... (2 Replies)
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Hello,
Script command helps to save command output to file. (Redicection doesn't work in this case).
Besides interactive shell 'recording', Linux script command has "-c" option which allows to record output of some non-interactive command.
The problem is that AIX script command variant... (6 Replies)
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1. The problem statement, all variables and given/known data:
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i use this command to make pkgadd non-interactive.
Command1:
echo | sudo /usr/sbin/pkgadd -n -a /u/base/admin -r silent.txt -d /tmp/dbs.pkgThis works fine if i run it as root user but when i run it with non-root user it prompts me for the password and then executes successfully thus making it... (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: mohtashims
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LEARN ABOUT MINIX
date
DATE(1) General Commands Manual DATE(1)NAME
date - print or set the date and time
SYNOPSIS
date [-qsu] [[MMDDYY]hhmm[ss]] [+format]
OPTIONS -q Read the date from stdin
-s Set the time (implicit for -q or a date string)
-u Print the date as GMT
-t Use this number of seconds instead of current time
EXAMPLES
date # Print the date and time
date 0221921610 # Set date to Feb 21, 1992 at 4:10 p.m.
DESCRIPTION
With the -q flag or a numeric argument, date sets the GMT time and date. MMDDYY refers to the month, day, and year; hhmmss refers to the
hour, minute and second. Each of the six fields must be exactly two digits, no more and no less. date always display the date and time,
with the default format for the system. The -u flag request GMT time instead of local time. A format may be specified with a + followed
by a printf-like string with the following options:
%% % character
%A Name of the day
%B Name of the month
%D mm/dd/yy
%H Decimal hour on 2 digits
%I Decimal hour modulo 12 on 2 digits
%M Decimal minute on 2 digits
%S Decimal seconds on 2 digits
%T HH:MM:SS
%U Decimal week number, Sunday being first day of week
%W Decimal week number, Monday being first day of week
%X Same as %T
%Y Decimal year on 4 digits
%Z Time Zone (if any)
%a Abbreviated name of the day
%b Abbreviated name of the month
%c Appropriate date & time (default format)
%d Decimal day of the month on 2 digits
%e Same as %d, but a space replaces leading 0
%h Same as %b
%j Decimal dey of the year on 3 digits
%m Decimal month on 2 digits
%n Newline character
%p AM or PM
%r 12-hour clock time with AM/PM
%s Number of seconds since the epoch
%t Tab character
%w Decimal day of the week (0=Sunday)
%x Same as %D
%y Decimal year on 2 digits
SEE ALSO time(2), ctime(3), readclock(8).
DATE(1)