1. Shell Programming and Scripting

I am trying to get the follow script to run in the background on the 'fly'. I can launch it via cron and it will run in the background. BUT when I launch it from the command line it will run in the foreground. I figure it has to do with the while loop I have, but I have no clue how I can run the... (8 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

If I have a file with a bunch of various numbers in one column, how can I make a script to take each number in the file and put in into a command line? Example: cat number_file 2 5 8 11 13 34 55 I need a loop to extract each of these numbers and put them into a command line... (1 Reply)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Situation: I have a working shell script on our file server (OSXS Tiger) to connect to a workstation, which is using a portable home directory (phd), and rsync a user's MirrorAgent.log. I'm not that strong of a scripter (obviously), but I would like to add other workstations to this script as they... (4 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

I am trying to write a script that loops through all the files in the current directory that end in '.slg.gz' and runs a parser on each file. Here is my code: #!/bin/bash FILES_HOME = 'dirname $0' for i in $(ls $FILES_HOME/.slg.gz$);do ./run-feature-parser $(i) > OUTPUT.csv done ... (1 Reply)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi , I have a menu driven script as shown below echo "" echo "*** 1 - option 1 " echo "*** " echo "*** 2 - option 2 " echo "*** 3 - option 3 " ... (3 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Does anyone have a same of a bash script that cd to a directory and execute a cgi script then moves onto the next directory then executes another cgi ? (3 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello Experts- We are facing some issues in the while loop script when we use the script time to decide whether to exist from the loop or continue. Below is the script SrcExitLoop="FALSE" Src_InitialStartTime=`date +%s` Src_StartTime=`date +%s` Src_NUM_ALERTS=0 TOTAL_ALERTS=`expr <SOME... (4 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

we have one script which we use to send mail in our environment. If we are giving correct attachment script runs fine but if we give a attachment name which is not present on server then this script go to infinite loop and causing all memory to be used. could any one please suggest me what is wrong... (2 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, I have a database file, named data.txt, and a shell script (convert.sh) to convert data.txt from columns to row. Output file name will be column_to_row.txt In this example data.txt has only four rows. Format of data.txt is: info name surname telefon_nr Data.txt info boris... (1 Reply)

10. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

Hi, I have encountered a problem that I am unable to find a workaround for. I have 52 numbers and I need to submit an individual job for each pair combination, so too many to do by hand. I have created a submission file (submission_code.sh) which contains the following code: gcta64... (2 Replies)