1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I use the command ls a\b\c\*.txt from the command line on HP UNIX and it works fine - It lists all files matching *.txt in the a\b\c directory When embeded in a ksh script `ls a\b\c\*.txt` it does not work - I get *.txt not found (even though there are files) I tried... (10 Replies)

2. AIX

Following code is working in bash but not in ksh. Can someone please send me an alternative? #!/bin/ksh fname="EOA.dmp" echo $fname logname=${fname/.dmp/.log} echo $logname I am getting below error in ksh "testcmd: logname=${fname/.dmp/.log}: 0403-011 The specified substitution is not... (2 Replies)

3. Solaris

Hi, Following code is working in bash but not in ksh. Can someone please send me an alternative? #!/bin/ksh fname="EOA.dmp" echo $fname logname=${fname/.dmp/.log} echo $logname I am getting below error in ksh "testcmd: logname=${fname/.dmp/.log}: 0403-011 The specified substitution... (3 Replies)

4. AIX

Hi, I have a strange problem with a AIX server, user are having problem with using du will in their ksh shell, if they switch to sh or bash there is not problem. root account that are using ksh but have not problem with du. this is the error messages when trying to run du du: can't find... (5 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, more of a windows wscript guy. However I took a new position that requires me to support some solaris servers. So... issue is that I need to copy all lines from a file to a temporary file and then copy them back into the original file starting at line 1. Reason I need to do this is... (5 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

#! /bin/ksh rm -f ./xyz file --- this line is working // Below any if stmt is not working. if then echo " blah blah " fi or I replaced above if with if then echo "dir exists" fi This is also not working. I am new to KSH. So can someone help why if stmt is not... (31 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, I am using SunOS 5.8 verison with KSH shell. My problem is I am not getting auto completion of file name on pressing of TAB or ESC key. While pressing ESC key , '^[' is getting printed . TAB is printing doin nothin but jus printing tab. What should I do to get auto completion of... (3 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Here's the script: #!/usr/bin/ksh Date=`date +%m%d%y` CDate=`date` FileName=cintas_hosts_and_users.$Date echo $CDate >> $FileName #echo $FileName for host in `cat /collect/itthomp/cintas_hostnames.dat` do echo $host >> $FileName ssh $host "awk -v Fname=$FileName -F: '{if($1 != "root"... (3 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I tried the following but giving me all the files in the directory , Where i need the files which are assigned to variable like below #!/bin/ksh Src_Dir="/home/etc" file_nm ="ab.temp" for File in `ls $Src_Dir/$file_nm*` do File=`basename $File` echo $File ... (2 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi I am not able to execute a script with ksh. Its not giving any error too. I have tried with absolute path /usr/bin/ksh test.sh . Also checked path variable and all looks fine It runs fine with sh. OS is solaris 10. (9 Replies)