1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all, I am parsing command line options using getopts. The problem is that mandatory argument options following ":" is taking next option as argument if it is not followed by any argument. Below is the script: while getopts :hd:t:s:l:p:f: opt do case "$opt" in -h|-\?)... (2 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a series of around 20 files as my program output. The final line of my script gets the no of files and the file list for the present day. The no of files shoudl be printed first and the files for today must be printed in the next line. Ialso understood that echo -e must be used for with \n.... (4 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, So my script reads $1 on the command line. example: SCRIPT_NAME 1111 In my script I use a nawk statement to grab $1 but I also need it to read $1 from the variable (1111 from command line in the example) nawk -F, '($1~1111)' *.$date.* What can I do so that this nawk statement... (2 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

To find all the files in your home directory that have been edited in some way since the last tar file, use this command: find . -newer backup.tar.gz Is anyone familiar with an older solution? looking to identify files older then 15mins across several directories. thanks, manny (2 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

could someone show me a sample command line option driven script? i want to see an easy way to write one and how i can execute it using command line options such as typing in read.pl -i <id> -c <cmds> -s <start> -e <end> would read out all the commands run by ID . from start time to... (7 Replies)

6. Programming

I have a C++ program. I read command line arguments, but if the value is not supplied, I default or make a calculation. Let's say I set it to a default value. I can code this in several ways. Here I show three ways. What would be the best way for maintaining this code? The program will get very... (2 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

HI Guys, My Script abc.sh 1) Checks 2) CA Scipt 3) CIA Script 0) Exit Enter Choice : Now if i select choice 2 then after finshed choice 2 wait for 40 min and run choice 3 what i can write in CA Scipt option: if then My Code : ... (3 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, I want to design a script that will call an existing menu script and select options one by one and redirict the out put to a file. For example;- In the script MENU.sh there are 10 options i want to design a script MENU2.sh that will select option 2 3 4 6 7 10 and redirict the output... (4 Replies)

9. Red Hat

I am trying to understand what are the differences of boot messages verbosity levels for the kernel field in grub.conf From my research, there appear to be three levels: quiet verbose debug I have also found documents that specify removing quiet from the kernel field. If this is done, is... (1 Reply)