1. Shell Programming and Scripting

cat .servers | while read LINE; do ssh jason@$LINE $1 done exit 1 ./command.ksh "ls -l ~jason" Why does this ONLY iterate on the first server in the list? It's not doing the command on all the servers in the list, what am I missing? Thanks! JP (2 Replies)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Howdie everyone... I have a shell script RemoveFiles.sh Inside this file, it only has two commands as below: rm -f ../../reportToday/temp/* rm -f ../../report/* My problem is that when i execute this script, nothing happened. Files remained unremoved. I don't see any error message as it... (2 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a folder that I need to search for new files and copy on the latest. I've been using "-mtime -1" in my command line but it doesn't seem to work. I've been meaning to fine a different script because files are dropped into the folder all day long and because of the -mtime, I've only be... (19 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi! I have a somehow big file (almost 3000 lines long and thirteen columns). Some lines have no value at all or, at least, are incomplete. The columns' values that have no data are marked with a "-" and the corresponding line (the line that owns that value) should be discarded and not used. ... (5 Replies)

5. Solaris

hello, The command above seems not working on my solaris 8/9 sparc machines. a. resulted to the ff below when I instead use "shutdown" only. Broadcast Message from root (pts/1) on "hostname" date.. The system "hostname" will be shut down in 30 seconds THE SYSTEM bdosg IS BEING SHUT... (4 Replies)

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, I'm trying to use Emacs to edit C++ files (extension .cpp). My ~/.emacs file contains: (defun my-c++-indent-setup () (setq c-basic-offset 4) (setq c-default-style "linux") ) (add-hook 'c++-mode-hook 'my-c++-indent-setup) When I open a C++ file in Emacs, it's in C++ mode (the... (1 Reply)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have the following and for some reason I can't have two options together. I mean if I choose -u and -p it won't work... why? #!/bin/bash resetTime=1 mytotalTime=0 totalHour=0 totalMin=0 averagemem=0 finalaverage=0 times=0 function usage() { cat << EOF USAGE: $0 file EOF } (10 Replies)

8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

find . -name "05_scripts" -type d -exec mv -f {}/'*.aep\ Logs' {}/.LogFiles \; Returns this failure: mv: rename ./019_0120_WS_WH_gate_insideTEST/05_scripts/*.aep\ Logs to ./019_0120_WS_WH_gate_insideTEST/05_scripts/.LogFiles/*.aep\ Logs: No such file or directory I don't know why it's trying... (4 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I am using korn shell. until ] do echo "\$# = " $# echo "$1" shift done To the above script, I passed 2 parameters and the program control doesn't enter inside "until" loop. If I change it to until ] then it does work. Why numeric comparison is not working with -ne and works... (3 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

#!/bin/sh trap "cleanup" TERM timeout=5 mainpid=$$ cleanup() { echo "at $i interupt" kill -9 0 } watchdog() { sleep $1 } (watchdog $timeout && kill -TERM $mainpid) & run_test() (10 Replies)