You're rather ambiguous about this verify() function. It takes an argument? I don't see where...
'if' takes a command as an argument, [ is a command, grep is also a command. A function by default returns the exit code of it's last command...
Code:
verify() {
local condition=$1
# do something with $condition
grep -q 'SUCCESS' results.txt
}
if verify 'condition1'; then
whatever
elif verify 'condition2'; then
something else...
else
i don't know ...
fi
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Hi there
We have boxes named server-sybase2, server-oracle1, etc etc
Does any body know how I can construct an if statement to say, if the hostname of the box contains the string "sybase" then do X ie
if
then
X
fi
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In my ksh script, if the conditions of a if statement are true, then do nothing; otherwise, execute some commands.
How do I write the "do nothing" statement in the following example?
Example:
if (( "$x"="1" && "$y"="a" && "$z"="happy" ))
then
do nothing
else
command
command
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Hi
I have the following case statement:
case $larg in
*_* )
a=${larg%_*}; b=${larg#*_};
;;
*^* )
a=${larg%^*}; b=${larg#*^};
;;
esac
I cannot figure out what *_* and *^* stand for...
Also what a=${larg%_*}; b=${larg#*_}; and
a=${larg%^*}; b=${larg#*^}; ... (1 Reply)
Hi there
I am trying to write an if statement in perl that will return "SUCCESS" if either of these conditions are true
a) if $changes is greater than 5 AND the $force flag is set to 1
OR
b) if $changes is greater than 0 AND $changes is less than 6
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
my $force =... (5 Replies)
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I'm trying to write an if statement that will check the USER parm against some text but I'm not quite sure how to use the or switch in the statement.. Can anyone help me out?...
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Good Morning,
I typically run a batch of commands, from the command line, to process server operating statistics. That would look like this:
(these are days of the month)
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Those files would have names... (9 Replies)
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I have a scenario to convert the update statements into insert statements using shell script (awk, sed...) or in database using regex.
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dos2unix(1) General Commands Manual dos2unix(1)NAME
dos2unix - DOS/MAC to UNIX text file format converter
SYNOPSYS
dos2unix [options] [-c convmode] [-o file ...] [-n infile outfile ...]
Options:
[-hkqV] [--help] [--keepdate] [--quiet] [--version]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents dos2unix, the program that converts plain text files in DOS/MAC format to UNIX format.
OPTIONS
The following options are available:
-h --help
Print online help.
-k --keepdate
Keep the date stamp of output file same as input file.
-q --quiet
Quiet mode. Suppress all warning and messages.
-V --version
Prints version information.
-c --convmode convmode
Sets conversion mode. Simulates dos2unix under SunOS.
-o --oldfile file ...
Old file mode. Convert the file and write output to it. The program default to run in this mode. Wildcard names may be used.
-n --newfile infile outfile ...
New file mode. Convert the infile and write output to outfile. File names must be given in pairs and wildcard names should NOT be
used or you WILL lost your files.
EXAMPLES
Get input from stdin and write output to stdout.
dos2unix
Convert and replace a.txt. Convert and replace b.txt.
dos2unix a.txt b.txt
dos2unix -o a.txt b.txt
Convert and replace a.txt in ASCII conversion mode. Convert and replace b.txt in ISO conversion mode. Convert c.txt from Mac to Unix
ascii format.
dos2unix a.txt -c iso b.txt
dos2unix -c ascii a.txt -c iso b.txt
dos2unix -c mac a.txt b.txt
Convert and replace a.txt while keeping original date stamp.
dos2unix -k a.txt
dos2unix -k -o a.txt
Convert a.txt and write to e.txt.
dos2unix -n a.txt e.txt
Convert a.txt and write to e.txt, keep date stamp of e.txt same as a.txt.
dos2unix -k -n a.txt e.txt
Convert and replace a.txt. Convert b.txt and write to e.txt.
dos2unix a.txt -n b.txt e.txt
dos2unix -o a.txt -n b.txt e.txt
Convert c.txt and write to e.txt. Convert and replace a.txt. Convert and replace b.txt. Convert d.txt and write to f.txt.
dos2unix -n c.txt e.txt -o a.txt b.txt -n d.txt f.txt
DIAGNOSTICS BUGS
The program does not work properly under MSDOS in stdio processing mode. If you know why is that so, please tell me.
AUTHORS
Benjamin Lin - <blin@socs.uts.edu.au>
Bernd Johannes Wuebben (mac2unix mode) <wuebben@kde.org>
MISCELLANY
Tested environment:
Linux 1.2.0 with GNU C 2.5.8
SunOS 4.1.3 with GNU C 2.6.3
MS-DOS 6.20 with Borland C++ 4.02
Suggestions and bug reports are welcome.
SEE ALSO unix2dos(1)mac2unix(1)1995.03.31 dos2unix v3.0 dos2unix(1)