This is an issue caused with the way bash implements pipes. When piping input to a while, I believe that bash executed the while in a child processes which causes any changes to variables inside of the while to be lost.
This is one reason I prefer kshell over bash. If you have a modern kshell, I suggest you use it. If not then try writing your output to a temp file and reading it into the while.
Try this in both shells to see the difference. Ksh gets the answer right after the loop both times.
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Hi...
i am trying to ping my servers .The hostnames are present in a file .They are separated by spaces in the file .
i am doing the following :
a=1
for name in $(cat host2 |cut -d" " -f$a)
do
echo Pinging server $name
ping -c5 $name
a=$a+1
done
It is... (3 Replies)
i have these data in a variable "$test"
BUNGA TERATAI 3 5055 ITH 1 1
JADE TRADER 143W ITH 4 4
MOL SPLENDOR 0307A ITH 3 3
the red coloured are the ones that i want to take and compare
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Hi,
Is it possible to assign one variable to other.
eg.
v1="table1"
v2="20000"
I want table1 to assign 20000
table1=20000
Is there any way?
Thanks (2 Replies)
Hi
I have webserver that I do read data from.
Data are stored like this:
Huston |1
Portland |2
Hazen |1
Minneapolis |4
Albany |1
Pittsburg |1
Albany |1
Huston |1
Portland|1
Hazen |2
Albany |2
Huston |1
Hazen |1
Script #!/bin/sh
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Hello all,
I find it hard to explain what I need so I will post the code
OVZINCLUDE="16810 16811 1689"
PLUS_16810="test"
PLUS_16811="test"
for VPS in $OVZINCLUDE
do
echo "Dumping VPSes: $OVZINCLUDE "
vzdump --compress --snapshot ${PLUS_$VPS} $VPS
done
... (2 Replies)
Simple enough problem I think, I just can't seem to get it right.
The below doesn't work as intended, it's just a function defined in a much larger script:
CheckValues() {
for field in \
Group_ID \
Group_Title \
Rule_ID \
Rule_Severity \
... (2 Replies)
I have a group of variables myLINEcnt1 - myLINEcnt10. I'm trying to printout the values using a for loop. I am at the head banging stage since i'm sure it has to be a basic syntax issue that i can't figure out.
For myIPgrp in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10; do
here i want to output the value of... (4 Replies)
Hello guys,
This truly is a newbie question. I'm trying to make a loop to execute simultaneous commands indefinitely while using variable. Here is how my mess looks like (this is just an example):
#!/bin/bash
IP=`shuf -n 1 IP.txt` # I figured this would be easier to select random lines... (4 Replies)
Hello All,
Maybe I'm Missing something here but I have NOOO idea what the heck is going on with this....?
I have a Variable that contains a PATTERN of what I'm considering "Illegal Characters". So what I'm doing is looping
through a string containing some of these "Illegal Characters". Now... (5 Replies)
Hi All,
I have a file which has hundred of records with fixed number of fields. In each record there is set of 8 characters which represent the duration of that activity. I want to sum up the duration present in all the records for a report. The problem is the duration changes per record so I... (5 Replies)
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libbash
LIBBASH(7) libbash Manual LIBBASH(7)NAME
libbash -- A bash shared libraries package.
DESCRIPTION
libbash is a package that enables bash dynamic-like shared libraries. Actually its a tool for managing bash scripts whose functions you may
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