1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi - Trying to take a list of ldap suffixes in a file, run an ldapsearch command on them, then run a grep command to see if it's a match, if not, then flag that and send an email alert. The list file (ldaplist) would look like - *********** o=company a o=company b *********** **... (7 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

I was searching for an option where i can echo some strings together with the contents of a file. Eg. I was to echo the below string to a file "alter application PMS_ add variable CurrYear Y2009;" >> ${ESS_MAXL_DIR}/PMS_SUB.txt The value 2009 is coming from a file called date.txt without the... (3 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Pls this is emergency.I have written a script which is taking input from another script. and the contents of my second script are acting as functions to my main script.Now the problem is that in one of the functions i want the script ececution to stop and start when user enters any character r... (2 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a script consisting of certain functions whose input is a file at same location. In that file i have written the name of anothe file at same location. The third file contains a word which act as a function in the first script.Let me give an example i have a scrip file say 1.sh in which i am... (7 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi there I want to ask to a user something about each line of a file. This is my code: #cat test.txt first line second line third line #cat test.sh #!/bin/ksh read_write () { echo "Do you want to print the line (YES/NO)?\n" read TEST case ${TEST} in YES) return 0;; ... (3 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi Guys.. need some urgent help... I am stuck in something badly I need to write a script which would read a sql statement (which might be a join/inner join/select/sub select etc. ) I need to read that sql statement ... and in the output I want all the table names and columns (doesn't... (4 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

While working on awk programming, i found that it doesn't understand 'read' statement. Then what's the use of 'continue' and 'break' statement in awk. For ex: awk '{k=1; while (k<10) {print $0; k++}}' emp.lst Now, please say if I want to put the logic that after priting 1 line, it will ask for... (13 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

hello guys, i am having the below piece of code error () { echo"Press y /n" read ans case $ans in y) main;; n) exit esac } In the abve code, read statement is not working i.e not waiting for user to enter input. ,i tested exit status its 1. could anyone help me to do this ... (11 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I've been having trouble figuring out what the following read statement is doing. DO I = 1, natom k = 3 * (i - 1) + 1 READ(8,*) AtNum(I), (X_2(J),J=k,k+2) END DO The part I don't understand is: (X_2(J),J=k,k+2) the file it is reading is simply a set of... (8 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

I'm looking for some help in figuring why my little bit of code will not process any entries other then the first one in my list. while read line ;do hostname=${line//\"} a=`ssh user@$hostname uptime;echo $?` if ];then dt=`date` touch... (6 Replies)