1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

hi there i write one awk script file in shell programing the code is related to dd/mm/yy to month, day year format but i get an error please can anybody help me out in this problem ?????? i give my code here including error awk ` # date-month -- convert mm/dd/yy to month day,... (2 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hey all, I need some assistance. I'm writing a script to eject tapes from a tape library, but the library is not a queued system and can only eject 15 tapes at a time. I added paste -d : -s so that it goes through full_tapes and puts each media_id on one line separated by the :. Now I'm... (2 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

I need help in the following script. I want to grep the sql errors insert into the error table and exit the shell script if there is any error, otherwise keep running the scripts. Here is my script #!/bin/csh -f source .orapass set user = $USER set pass = $PASS cd /opt/data/scripts echo... (2 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello everybody, I have some files in directory. I want to shift 3 characters of filenames to the right at a same time. for example, I have filenames like $ls -l 01_2000.G3.input.txt 02_2000.G3.input.txt ..., ..., 04_2010.G3.input.txt I want to change the filenames like... (3 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

hey guys, so i'm running into a wall here with my script. i simply can't figure out a way to get it to work. so, maybe you guys can help me. i'm trying to created a report of server alerts based on the time worked. what i have so far is curling nagios pages, removing all the extra html tags and... (4 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

hello everyone i am beginner on shell scripting .and i am working on my project work on ad hoc network i wrote a batch (.sh) to do a looping and execute a tcl script i wrote before in each iteration ..but i got this problem " syntax error near unexpected token `('... (1 Reply)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

HI, We are using two shell scripts, script.sh,env.sh, where env.sh will be called inside script.sh. The variable inside env.sh is used as $var in script.sh.But while running the script its not identifying that variable. Is there any permission needed to call a script inside another script. ... (3 Replies)

8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

think using shift would help me finish my script but cant get it work without your help. would appreciate if you give me a example with shift & counter in the same script so I can later work on that to my one. Thanks and Good Luck! (1 Reply)

9. Homework & Coursework Questions

Hello everyone, I am new to Perl and I am having some issues getting a script to work. I have to create a script that uses an array of 52 cards, "shuffles" the cards (using loops with the pop, shift, and push commands), and prints out the top five. This is not a randomizing of the array just a... (2 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

I am getting the following error while passing parameter to a shell script called within awk script. Any idea what's causing this issue and how to ix it ? Thanks sh: -c: line 0: syntax error near unexpected token `newline' sh: -c: line 0: `./billdatecalc.sh ... (10 Replies)