1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Working in a bash environment, in the following example, how do I direct the error message that putting in an invalid flag (-j for example) would normally produce to dev/null? while getopts "abcd" opt do case "$opt" in i) a etc ;; r) b etc ;; f) c etc ;; v) d... (7 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

I want to set a bash env variable which has @ in its name, for example, @YOGESH@ may i know how do i do this? (4 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

hi, i have a script that runs on bash and would like to run it on a machine that has csh and bash. the default setting on that machine is csh. i dont want to change my code to run it with a csh shell. is there any way i can run the script (written in bash) on this machine? in other words is there... (3 Replies)

4. Red Hat

Hi there, How can I change bash to csh when starting a terminal, and set some aliases for csh? I can't find such files like .cshrc in my home directory. Thanks a lot (1 Reply)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all, I'm trying to import some functions I have saved in a file named functions.sh into a different script (protocol.sh). Can anybody show me how to do this? I tried source functions.sh as I would do at the terminal but source command cannot be found from within the script protocol.sh. ... (2 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hey, I'm new here. Basically, I'm trying to make a bash script that affects a file of my choice. What I want to do is $./script.sh /path/to/file.jpg and then the bash script will know that variable=/path/to/file.jpg Thanks! (4 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have 3 programs, 1 in perl, 2 in csh: call them perl1, csh1 and run.ol I need perl1 to set csh1 variable NOLOG_qsub = "" I need perl1 to run, run.ol run.ol takes the executable and input and outputs to output run.ol#!/bin/csh -f # run.ol executable input output perl1 should... (1 Reply)

8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi! I wanted to simplify my bash prompt, so I edited my etc/bashrc file. I thought this was the file that would override any other env files. When I opened it, I saw that the way it was setup was not what my prompt looked like, although I forget exactly what was there. But i edited it the way I... (1 Reply)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I'm not a pro bashscript writer but I'm learning and want to learn about my mistakes. In the next script I have an error on rule 6 but I can't find what I'm doing wrong ... I daily receive a file xml.xml and have to import it in an mysql database in a few existing tables. #!/bin/bash... (2 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all I am trying to create a script that takes a password input then writes that to a tmp file and puts that tmp file path in my env as a var. It does everything but export the my env and I am unsure why. I am using Ubuntu 12.4 #!/bin/bash read -s -p "Enter Password: " gfpassword... (5 Replies)