1. Shell Programming and Scripting

#!/bin/ksh size=3978132853 limit=100 if ;then echo exceeded limit fi This does not work though if i reduce 3978132853 to 397813285 it works any ideas and work around appreciated (SunOS 5.9 Generic_117171-02 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-80 ) (2 Replies)

2. Solaris

Hi anybody know how to test out the UDP port working? cos UDP cannot use telnet to test... Sumemr (2 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

This is the code: while test 1 -eq 1 do read a $a if test $a = stop then break fi done I read a command on every loop an execute it. I check if the string equals the word stop to end the loop,but it say that I gave too many arguments to test. For example echo hello. Now the... (1 Reply)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

How to check weather a string is like test* or test* ot *test* in if condition (5 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi. I'm new to this forum, my English perhaps is not so good, but here is my question: In bash you can use ] for tests, and how I understand it the variable names should be expanded automatically. So this should give "yes": xx=hello $ ] && echo yes || echo no no # not giving "yes" These two... (2 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all... (Apologies for any typos at all.) This is a step by step _script_ to check if your Arduino is talking to your Linux or Macbook Pro computer using the Terminal... It works on at least 3 Linux flavours and now the Macbook Pro... I hope you find it useful as a simple check for... (0 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

i am writing the following snippet and cannot figure out why the variable measType remains 0. it should be 1 I also tried "\#analog" and '\#analog' in the test statement and it still doesn't work. What is going on? bash$ measType=0 bash$ read line < 2iconfig.ini bash$ echo $line #analog... (4 Replies)

8. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

I ran into the following and still do not understand entirely the rationale behind this. If someone could explain why things are as they are I'd be thankful. The following was tested on AIX 7.1 with ksh88, but i suspect that to be ubiquitous. In an installation routine i had to create a set of... (6 Replies)