if my user has to enter the name of months to carry out a search how can I limit the input values to only the month names and nothing else?
so far my input criteria for the user is this:
i would like it so the user can only enter the months in the way i have stated. otherwise they would... (11 Replies)
Hi,
Lets say I have a script "ss" which does this
read abc
echo $abc
read pqr
echo $pqr
Now if I want to pass and argument to only "abc" how do I do it.
If I do
echo "somevalue" | ss, it does not prompt for pqr and its value comes out as blank.
Any help is appreciated
Thanks
P (6 Replies)
I need to write what I thought would be a fairly simple 2-line UNIX script. It can be written PERL, csh, ksh...or whatever is easiest.
The entire script will be:
Begin Scipt
source MySourceFile
execute MyExecutable.exe
End Script
The problem is that MySourceFile can not be... (1 Reply)
Hi Friends,
I am wrinting a shell script MorningChecks.sh which will call another script StartServer.sh. But the latter script requires user's inputs to complete. I want to automate this.
So can you please let me how this can be achieved?
Any help would be highly appereciated.
... (3 Replies)
Hi,
Am trying to store the user inputs into a file, but the below code will store only the first line of the values. I need to store all the user input values which may contain one or more lines. Thanks in advance.
echo "please enter file names";
read name;
echo $name>/tmp/test (11 Replies)
Hi Everyone,
1) I really cannot figure out how to pass multiple user inputs in a script. really need your help re this. below is the script.
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#!/bin/sh
# script name: ask.sh
echo "Enter name: \c"
read NAME
echo "Your name is $NAME\n"
echo "Enter age: \c"
read AGE
echo... (5 Replies)
When using Oracle, we have an option to turn spool on, which records that transactions and output to a file. Any such options on UNIX, where I can get everything I have on my screen into a file? That would be helpful in documenting the OS level changes that I perform manually.
regards
Roshni (1 Reply)
Hello,
I am new to awk and I am trying to figure out how to print an output based on user input.
For example:
ubuntu:~/scripts$ steps="step1, step2, step3"
ubuntu:~/scripts$ echo $steps
step1, step2, step3
I am playing around and I got this pattern that I want:
... (3 Replies)
Need a bash script that will ask the user: Which Files Would you like to copy?
Then the user would input the filenames (space seperated, all lowercase)
The script would then cp each file to /data/backup/ and also wc the files to std output. (to see how many lines each file has)
Should go... (5 Replies)
Hi,
I am new to bash scripting and i wanted to make a bash script that will generate a password for a user. The user must enter his/her name and the url of the site the password is used for. And the script will generate a password with those two elements in the password. So if the url is... (0 Replies)