This is what I have to check date entries in an interactive script with the end users... I use this to build control cards for a reporting utility supplied by a software vendor.
I also want to check to make sure its a valid day based on the month (ie 30days has sept, april, june and Nov..)... ... (2 Replies)
how do i validate y script so that it only accepts values between 1 and 3 and against any character input, cause at the moment i can only validate against numbers outside 1 and 3 but not characters
cheers (4 Replies)
What's wrong with this syntax? It's part of my 'if' statement but it doesn't seem to pass and it keeps going to the 'else' part.
I thought it says that userid must start with a non-numeric character and is between 6 and 10 characters long (alphanumeric).
$userid|grep -Eq '^?\{6,10\}+$'
if... (2 Replies)
Hi there,
I'm trying to validate my $1 and $2 before I use them in the sqlplus update, I think I have the validation rules set correctly??? however when I test my script, it jumps straight into the sql. It doesn't seem to validate the vars....even when I know they are incorrect.
if ; then
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HELP: validating IP addresses any way possible
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I am trying to validate input from the user in a script. I thought is was easy to do using regular expressions but I can't figure out how to use REs in a... (1 Reply)
I have a file like the following
aaaaa00005bbbbb
aaaaa00108bbbbb
The code "00005" and "00108" need to be validated and the list of valid codes are stored in a database.
While I loop through the file, should call a sql statement for every records to do the validation? or is... (1 Reply)
Hi All,
This is a small snippet that I am using to validate the format of IP address.This is working fine.
Since this is not elegant, please let me know if anyone has a better working code than the one below.
Also I am planning to ping the ip address given by the user and check the $?... (3 Replies)
Pardon my ignorance but I am lost on how to do this
I have a file called "Sample.txt", it is pipe delimited, it should have 13 fields. But some of the records do not, I would like to set up a shell script
where I can pass in a parameter "Sample.txt" and it would split the file into records... (2 Replies)
Hello All,
I have the following file. The first column is Type. Always the file will have one H and one T type in between all D type reocrds.
Need todo some validations.
H|ABCD
D|TAB N0003107809CD2013-11-14|RYAN|FRY|7 DR|RICHMOND HILL|GA|32431|X|C95|000009999|000000001|TAB||C0001
D|TAB... (3 Replies)
can someone please help me fix this command:
somecommand.sh | awk -F"---" 'BEGIN{count=0} /P/ && /ERROR/ {if (($3 ~ /^P$/) && ($6 ~ /ERROR/)) {print; count++ }END { print count } ;}'
basically, what i'm attempting to do here is print all the matching lines, then, at the end, print the total... (2 Replies)