Thanks for reply mirni, your proposed solution did not work for me. It gives no error but returns to parent shell and does not ask for password.
Which solution? mirni gave several.
The problem is, you are asking for kshell to read from two different things -- want it to run a noninteractive shell to do something in, then suddenly become interactive and accept input from a user.
Putting a semicolon afterwards doesn't tell it to feed that command into kshell. It tells it to feed it into your shell.
Depending on how kshell works, perhaps something like this:
should execute the command, then run an interactive shell after that... The quotes around the semicolon so that kshell gets fed the whole thing instead of your local shell breaking it into two statements.
I want to create an alias that will grep the passwd file for the logged in persons username and then it will return the password file entry. I want to pipe the whoami info to the grep command. I have created the following: % alias whopw grep... (1 Reply)
If I want to create an alias called "cdr", and this alias need an argument (for example arg1)followed by "cdr", the result should go to the directory like "/home/ting/arg1/report/logs", the command should look like below,
alias cdr arg1 "cd /home/ting/\!$1/report/logs" (not working)::(
... (1 Reply)
Hi
I have put alias ll='ls -la' in .profile file but it doesn't work.
On hand it works it looks like the .profile file is not beeing read.
How to check whitch file is loaded? ,profile? .bash_profile?
My system: SunOS mion 5.10 Generic
Shell: /bin/pfksh
Thanks (2 Replies)
Hi GUYS,
I need to create an alias for the the connect statement.
I want to replace "CONNECT TO DBNAME" to "CONNECT TO DBNAME user USERID using PASSWORD"
I thought i will add an alias in the .profile.
But its not working. May be because i am trying to create it for 3 words instead of one... (2 Replies)
Hi
Linux
Set up - alias ls='ls -l'
Then run script
#! /bin/ksh
sub()
{
ls
}
sub
Is there any way to get it working. I don't want to define alias inside of the program
Thank you (2 Replies)
I'm trying to set up an alias in .bash_aliases to show just the filenames of the files in a directory, which the following command will do:
ls -l | grep ^- | awk '{print $NF}'
kjb.zip
ap.zip
tor.zip
However when I set up the following alias in .bash_aliases:
alias lf="ls -l | grep ^- |... (16 Replies)
I am new to unix and therefore I did a lot of reading before posting. So please, if this has been answered before, forgive me for re-posting and point me to the right place for the answer. I have spent many hours searching the net and read over 50 posts in this forum and even tried a few thing but... (20 Replies)
I want to create an alias cpage4 and create a postscript file
For example I want to call
cpage4 file.f
which creates the file file.ps
I have written like this but don't know how to continue
alias cpage4 '/usr/bin/mpage -m40 -4AHP- \!* (6 Replies)
If one:
$ find -name 'some expression' -type f > newfile
and then subsequently wants to create an alias file from each pathname the find command retrieved and the > placed within 'newfile', how would one do this? Ideally, the newly created alias files would all be in one directory.
I am... (3 Replies)
Hi,
Below is what i have in my profile:
alias wldm='cd /opt/app/wls'
If i use bash or ksh shell this alias does not work.
What should be done for this alias to work with all these simultaneously -> No Shell, bash shell, and ksh shell (14 Replies)
Discussion started by: mohtashims
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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS
shell
shell(1F) FMLI Commands shell(1F)NAME
shell - run a command using shell
SYNOPSIS
shell command [command] ...
DESCRIPTION
The shell function concatenate its arguments, separating each by a space, and passes this string to the shell ($SHELL if set, otherwise
/usr/bin/sh).
EXAMPLES
Example 1: A sample output of shell command.
Since the Form and Menu Language does not directly support background processing, the shell function can be used instead.
`shell "build prog > /dev/null &"`
If you want the user to continue to be able to interact with the application while the background job is running, the output of an exe-
cutable run by shell in the background must be redirected: to a file if you want to save the output, or to /dev/null if you don't want to
save it (or if there is no output), otherwise your application may appear to be hung until the background job finishes processing.
shell can also be used to execute a command that has the same name as an FMLI built-in function.
NOTES
The arguments to shell will be concatenate using spaces, which may or may not do what is expected. The variables set in local environments
will not be expanded by the shell because "local" means "local to the current process."
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO sh(1), attributes(5)SunOS 5.10 5 Jul 1990 shell(1F)