print "Do you want to continue (y/n) ? " | tee -a /dev/tty
read answer
if [[ "$answer" = "y" || "$answer" = "Y" ]];
The above code is very unusual.
This would normal if you just want to read what someone typed in response to the question:
It would be helpful to see all the scripts.
If you are trying to read the value of $answer in the calling process, this is impossible. A variable created in a sub-script is not available to the calling script. There are techniques to get round this.
Anybody know what's wrong with this syntax?
awk -v job="$job" 'BEGIN { FS="|"}
{print $1,$2," ",$4," ",$3\n,$5,"\n"}' list
It's keeping give me this message:
awk: syntax error near line 1
awk: bailing out near line 1
It seems awk has problem with my BEGIN command.
Any... (8 Replies)
Does anybody know how to print a variable passed to awk command?
awk -F"|" 'BEGIN {print $job,"\n","Question \n"} {print $1,$2$4," ",$3}' "job=$job1" file1
I am trying to pass job the variable job1.
the output is blank.
?? (3 Replies)
Hi All,
I pass a Perl script variable, whch is passed to a query to be prepared. But the problem is I have special character like '&' in this variable which are handled in a special way by the Oracle query parser. How do I get over this?
my $cust_name='A&B';
my $sql="Select cust_short_name... (1 Reply)
Hi
I have written a script using ftp to get files from one server and copy them to 2 dirrerent servers. I wish to call this script from a parent script that will check the number of files copied and run a check sum for each file. As the filenames for the files in the get portion of the script... (3 Replies)
Hi
I have two shell scripts A and B
A calls B
I would like to use a variable in A the value of which is assigned by
B after calling B
Thanks in advance
Suresh (8 Replies)
Hi,
Can you please help. I am scripting in sh and I am trying to simply copy one directory to another but for some reason my variables are not recognised?
echo "The latest version of the program is being found......."
cd $SOFTWARE/src/$progname
version=`ls $SOFTWARE/src/$progname | grep... (13 Replies)
I have a file in my unix directory called "restart_job1.job". Below is a sample of the script where I am doing a 'grep' to check specifically for an oracle error. If the value 'ORA-" is found, I set a variable to hold the return code value (job1_return_code). If the return code is non zero, I... (2 Replies)
I am having difficulties with the fllowing script:
!/bin/sh
voicemaildir=/var/spool/asterisk/voicemail/$1/$2/INBOX/
echo `date` ':' $voicemaildir >> /var/log/voicemail-notify.log
for audiofile in `ls $voicemaildir/*.wav`; do
transcriptfile=${audiofile/wav/transcript}
... (4 Replies)
I have a script.
#!/bin/sh
cur_$1_modify_time=Hello
echo "cur_$1_modify_time"
When I run like
sh /root/script1 jj
I expect value "Hello" being assigned to variable "cur_jj_modify_time" and output being "Hello" ie echoing $cur_jj_modify_time
But the output comes as
# sh... (3 Replies)
In the bash below the variable date displays in the echo. However when I use it in the for loop it does not. Basically, the user inputs a date then that date is converted to the desired format of (month-day-year, no leading 0). That input is used in the for loop to return every file that matches... (5 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT V7
arithmetic
ARITHMETIC(6) Games Manual ARITHMETIC(6)NAME
arithmetic - provide drill in number facts
SYNOPSIS
/usr/games/arithmetic [ +-x/ ] [ range ]
DESCRIPTION
Arithmetic types out simple arithmetic problems, and waits for an answer to be typed in. If the answer is correct, it types back "Right!",
and a new problem. If the answer is wrong, it replies "What?", and waits for another answer. Every twenty problems, it publishes statis-
tics on correctness and the time required to answer.
To quit the program, type an interrupt (delete).
The first optional argument determines the kind of problem to be generated; +-x/ respectively cause addition, subtraction, multiplication,
and division problems to be generated. One or more characters can be given; if more than one is given, the different types of problems
will be mixed in random order; default is +-
Range is a decimal number; all addends, subtrahends, differences, multiplicands, divisors, and quotients will be less than or equal to the
value of range. Default range is 10.
At the start, all numbers less than or equal to range are equally likely to appear. If the respondent makes a mistake, the numbers in the
problem which was missed become more likely to reappear.
As a matter of educational philosophy, the program will not give correct answers, since the learner should, in principle, be able to calcu-
late them. Thus the program is intended to provide drill for someone just past the first learning stage, not to teach number facts de
novo. For almost all users, the relevant statistic should be time per problem, not percent correct.
ARITHMETIC(6)