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
what I need to do is to take out the red coloured and then compare to another variable, if same then... (0 Replies)
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
user="admin" (1 Reply)
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} $VPS
done
... (2 Replies)
Simple enough problem I think, I just can't seem to get it right.
The below doesn't work as intended, it's just a function defined in a much larger script:
CheckValues() {
for field in \
Group_ID \
Group_Title \
Rule_ID \
Rule_Severity \
... (2 Replies)
I have a group of variables myLINEcnt1 - myLINEcnt10. I'm trying to printout the values using a for loop. I am at the head banging stage since i'm sure it has to be a basic syntax issue that i can't figure out.
For myIPgrp in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10; do
here i want to output the value of... (4 Replies)
Hello guys,
This truly is a newbie question. I'm trying to make a loop to execute simultaneous commands indefinitely while using variable. Here is how my mess looks like (this is just an example):
#!/bin/bash
IP=`shuf -n 1 IP.txt` # I figured this would be easier to select random lines... (4 Replies)
Hello All,
Maybe I'm Missing something here but I have NOOO idea what the heck is going on with this....?
I have a Variable that contains a PATTERN of what I'm considering "Illegal Characters". So what I'm doing is looping
through a string containing some of these "Illegal Characters". Now... (5 Replies)
Hi All,
I have a file which has hundred of records with fixed number of fields. In each record there is set of 8 characters which represent the duration of that activity. I want to sum up the duration present in all the records for a report. The problem is the duration changes per record so I... (5 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT REDHAT
open
OPEN(1) Linux 1.x OPEN(1)NAME
open - start a program on a new virtual terminal (VT).
SYNOPSIS
open [-c vtnumber] [-s] [-u] [-l] [-v] [--] command command_options
DESCRIPTION
open will find the first available VT, and run on it the given command with the given command options, standard input, output and error are
directed to that terminal. The current search path ($PATH) is used to find the requested command. If no command is specified then the envi-
ronment variable $SHELL is used.
OPTIONS
-c vtnumber
Use the given VT number and not the first available. Note you must have write access to the supplied VT for this to work.
-s Switch to the new VT when starting the command. The VT of the new command will be made the new current VT.
-u Figure out the owner of the current VT, and run login as that user. Suitable to be called by init. Shouldn't be used with -c or -l.
-l Make the command a login shell. A - is prepended to the name of the command to be executed.
-v Be a bit more verbose.
-w wait for command to complete. If -w and -s are used together then open will switch back to the controlling terminal when the command
completes.
-- end of options to open.
NOTE
If open is compiled with a POSIX (Gnu) getopt() and you wish to set options to the command to be run, then you must supply the end of
options -- flag before the command.
EXAMPLES
open can be used to start a shell on the next free VT, by using the command:
open bash
To start the shell as a login shell, use:
open -l bash
To get a long listing you must supply the -- separator:
open -- ls -l
SEE ALSO login(1), doshell(8), switchto(1).
AUTHOR
Jon Tombs <jon@gtex02.us.es or jon@robots.ox.ac.uk>
-w idea from "sam".
19 Jul 1996 V1.4 OPEN(1)