@kristinu
I could be off track because it is hard to follow your code, but have you read up on the Shell getopts command? It is designed to turn command line parameters into Shell variables in an orderly manner.
Just for interest, what is an "associative array" ?
As example,
In this case the user has set the cmod file. Then
Quote:
hasArgument[cmodInfile] is true
and value[cmodInfile] is set to file.cmod
getopts does not handle long options. Associative arrays let you return different values for different strings, rather than just numbered positions in the array. Associative arrays becomes quite simple like a simple array but instead of an index, one has a string to distinguish elements.
Hi;
I want to access our customer database to retreive all clients that have as language index 2 or 3 and take their client number.
My input is a file containing all client numbers.
i access the data base using a function call "scpshow". The total number of clients i want to scan is 400 000... (6 Replies)
About associative nature of awk arrays i'm still confused, not able to understand yet how array element can be accessed based on a string, I got one example at gawk manual to illustrate associative nature of awk arrays, it goes here:
Codeawk '
# Print list of word frequencies
{
for (i = 1;... (3 Replies)
Hi all,
#!/usr/dt/bin/dtksh
typeset -A wavelength
wavelength=650
wavelength=590
wavelength=510
wavelength=475
wavelength=445
wavelength=400
I have created an associative array like the one above.
Now I am trying to print the values
If i give print ${wavelength} it is... (4 Replies)
Hello,
i'm writing a little script that checks a .txt file for a specific ID that came after 9:10 am which outputs it's data to a file LateUsers.txt
once done , it should mention the following:
Number of late users
Number of unique late users
Over all late users percentage
number of... (0 Replies)
if i declare both but don't input any variables what values will the int array and file pointer array have on default, and if i want to reset any of the elements of both arrays to default, should i just set it to 0 or NULL or what? (1 Reply)
I have this piece of code. The first if statement is not working, however the second if statement is working fine.
I have set a value for Srcs to be file.srcs and want to print it.
If no value for Rcvs is set, I get the print statement correctly
hasValue="file.srcs"
if ${hasValue}; then
... (0 Replies)
Continuing my quest to learn BASH, Bourne, Awk, Grep, etc. on my own through the use of a few books. I've come to an exercise that has me absolutely stumped.
The specifics:
1. Using ONLY BASH scripting commands (not sed, awk, etc.), write a script to convert a string on the command line to... (22 Replies)
Hi,
I have the following dataset.
A 2 1 272
A 2 2 333
A 2 3 222
A 3 1 222
A 3 2 11
B 1 1 112
B 1 2 998
B 2 1 667
C 1 1 887
C 1 2 887
C 2 1 998
I need to have an associate array based on the first column and generate a auto generated number column in the last column.
Needed output:... (2 Replies)
Gents,
I did the below code to get an output (report) ,.. the code works fine but I believe it can be more shorted using better method.
Please if you can help, to generate same output improving the code , will be great.
here my code.
# get diff in time
awk '{$9=$8-prev8;prev8=$8;print... (8 Replies)
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system
SYSTEM(3) Linux Programmer's Manual SYSTEM(3)NAME
system - execute a shell command
SYNOPSIS
#include <stdlib.h>
int system(const char *string);
DESCRIPTION
system() executes a command specified in string by calling /bin/sh -c string, and returns after the command has been completed. During
execution of the command, SIGCHLD will be blocked, and SIGINT and SIGQUIT will be ignored.
RETURN VALUE
The value returned is -1 on error (e.g. fork failed), and the return status of the command otherwise. This latter return status is in the
format specified in wait(2). Thus, the exit code of the command will be WEXITSTATUS(status). In case /bin/sh could not be executed, the
exit status will be that of a command that does exit(127).
If the value of string is NULL, system() returns nonzero if the shell is available, and zero if not.
system() does not affect the wait status of any other children.
CONFORMING TO
ANSI C, POSIX.2, BSD 4.3
NOTES
As mentioned, system() ignores SIGINT and SIGQUIT. This may make programs that call it from a loop uninterruptable, unless they take care
themselves to check the exit status of the child. E.g.
while(something) {
int ret = system("foo");
if (WIFSIGNALED(ret) &&
(WTERMSIG(ret) == SIGINT || WTERMSIG(ret) == SIGQUIT))
break;
}
Do not use system() from a program with suid or sgid privileges, because strange values for some environment variables might be used to
subvert system integrity. Use the exec(3) family of functions instead, but not execlp(3) or execvp(3). system() will not, in fact, work
properly from programs with suid or sgid privileges on systems on which /bin/sh is bash version 2, since bash 2 drops privileges on
startup. (Debian uses a modified bash which does not do this when invoked as sh.)
The check for the availability of /bin/sh is not actually performed; it is always assumed to be available. ISO C specifies the check, but
POSIX.2 specifies that the return shall always be non-zero, since a system without the shell is not conforming, and it is this that is
implemented.
It is possible for the shell command to return 127, so that code is not a sure indication that the execve() call failed.
SEE ALSO sh(1), signal(2), wait(2), exec(3)
2001-09-23 SYSTEM(3)