1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Dear forum I have the following small script: #!/bin/ksh echo -e "abba-o" | awk -F '-' '{ print $2 }' | cut -b 1It needs to be ksh.. in bash I don't have this problem. If I run this on opensuse 10.2 I get this as output: e If I run this on suse enterprise 10 sp2 then I get this: o ... (1 Reply)

2. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Whenever I send an email to my catchall alias via SSH (i.e., locally), Exim successfully pipes the e-mail to a PHP script, as I told it to do. However, when I try to send an e-mail to my catchall alias via my e-mail client (i.e., remotely), Exim won't pipe the e-mail. Any ideas? My exim.conf... (0 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

I am running the following script and passing the following command line arguments : DBCheckSum_control CA_SITE CA_SITE Can someone please tell me, why my command line args are not being accepted and assigned to variable "TABLE_NAME'' and "ACTION_TYPE"?? usage() { print "Usage: ${0} {... (3 Replies)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hey guys. Hopefully this is an easy one but having reference similar problems on the web I still can't fix it. I am doing a recursive find and replace from a script. Of course I could just run the damn thing from the command line but it's bugging me now and want to get it working. grep -rl... (4 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

I am working with a sh script on a solaris 9 zone (sol 10 host) that grabs information to build the configuration command line. the variables Build64, SSLopt, CONFIGopt, and CC are populated in the script. the script includes CC=`which gcc` CONFIGopt=' --prefix=/ --exec-prefix=/usr... (8 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Needing a hint. Creating that function called Meter my simple script works well. What I want now is to start the last four commented lines to include or trigger a reaction, if there are more than n lines in that .txt-file it shall display that message for example. But the interpreter says there is... (3 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

OSX 10.9 I am building a script that evaluates the difference between 2 files. Here is a command that does not work transparently. Running this command in Terminal yields great results; however when I put that line in a .sh script, I get the errors shown below. Am I doing something silly? ... (1 Reply)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

I know that set line "This is a line." puts whats between " inside the var line. But How do I do the same for set line "This is a line "with quotations" inside the string." (2 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, My command is getting stuck while running it. observed that the grep command doesn't returned any data ($? was 1) and it failed. This command is assigned into the variable and used in other command as script progresses. To continue the script output, i have to press ^C twice and script... (2 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Oracle Linux 6. Trying to set up a simple monitoring of memory usage. This command does exactly what I want at the command line: echo $(date +%Y-%m-%d" "%H:%M:%S) $(grep PageTables /proc/meminfo) >> /home/oracle/meminfo.logBut when I put it in my crontab: * * * * * echo $(date +%Y-%m-%d"... (2 Replies)