07-26-2011
Shell Scripting Newbie
Hi Guys, I want to create a shell script to run multiple jobs in sequence.
Explaination -
If I were to run each jobs individually I would have gone to folder - "abin"(where my shellscript is place) as follows
cd abin
abin > runappeng.sh abc001
Now, I have list of programs which are like abc001 thru abc010.
So, my requirement is how to run the script to do this. Waht should I name it, so that when I go to abin folder and put scipt name as testmul.sh. It will intiate the sequence of programs getting executed
and their status on the front end.
-Rgds,
Chaits
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truncate OPTION... FILE...
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Shrink or extend the size of each FILE to the specified size
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-o, --io-blocks
treat SIZE as number of IO blocks instead of bytes
-r, --reference=RFILE
base size on RFILE
-s, --size=SIZE
set or adjust the file size by SIZE bytes
--help display this help and exit
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output version information and exit
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