1. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a problem, which is, I have servers as $hostname : Serverxxd $hostname : Serverxxs $hostname : Serverxxl $hostname : Serverxxp d=dev, s=sit, l=stg, p=prd The packages will be in all the boxes and my script contains $ENV which I should be getting from 'hostname' I am not able to... (4 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi guys, can someome help with this question, I have defined a function that takes a command as a parameter, but when the command is executed from the function it will throw errors because what I believe is a special character escaping issue. I tried using the backslash to escape the pipe | and >... (2 Replies)

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi All, I need to frame a unix script to logon to a unix box. The credentials needs to be obtained from a property file on the same location. I am trying to use 'expect' and 'spawn' command to meet this req. When I am passing values, these commands are working fine. but when I am trying to... (3 Replies)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi all, I have a large text file and also a smaller list of program names. I want to find out how many of those programs exist in the large text file. Can someone help me with the command/script please. The program list is along the lines of tranwe2 tranwe3 tranye5 etc so basically I... (5 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I have a file a.xml containing the below <customerId>000</customerId> and a variable CUSTOMER_ID which is set to '333' Now I want to replace <customerId>000</customerId> with <customerId>333</customerId> by the below sed command and save the output in a file b.xml: sed... (3 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

I need to pass values at runtime for the below awk command where l is the length and partial.txt is the file name. awk -v l=285 '{s="%-"l"s\n";printf(s,$0);}' partial.txt > temp1.txt; (5 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, I'm having some issues getting a home dir from a remote server passed to a variable. Here is what I have so far: rsh server "(ls -ld /home*/user | awk '{print \$9}')" /home3/userThat works fine and brings back what I need. But when I try to add it to a variable it goes all... (3 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all, I am working on a project, in which I have to connect to Bluetooth low energy device. I am able to connect and do data transfer from command line. But I want to do from script Here is my script #!/bin/bash #sudo hcitool -i hci0 lescan sleep 1 sudo hcitool -i hci0 lecc --random... (8 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi , Can some one help me how to pass ls command output to diff command ex : - ls *.xml will return files which have time stamps abc-<time-stamp>.xml xyz-<time-stamp>.xml diff abc-<time-stamp>.xml xyz-<time-stamp>.xml >> newfile.txt we need to... (9 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, I have list of around 400 devices. I need to restart a service /etc/init.d/psap23.sh in all of them, but it should restart by root only. Those have some other kind of light Linux. There is no sudo package in that and we can't/shouldn't install. Direct root login is not allowed. I login... (5 Replies)