1. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a ksh loop that monitors front panel key postitions. I need a keystroke or something to break out of the loop without exiting the script. Code is: #!/bin/ksh while true do POST=$(./keystat2 | nawk '{print $1}') if ]; then ... (2 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

from my main script, i am calling an expect script. there are a lot of conditions in the Expect script and it can have any exit value based on success or failure of the Expect Script. how can i check the exit status of Expect scritp in the main script. (1 Reply)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi Can someone help me please? In a standard UNIX .ksh script, if you have the exit status..say 5...what line do you have to enter into the script for this number to be automatically converted to its actual exit reason by looking up the exit status file...wherever that is? thanks angus (1 Reply)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, Running Oracle Scheduler 11g2 on an AIX 6.01. I want to run a shell script (called "external program" in Oracle terminology) which executes some commands and react on the outcome using the exit status $?. For example a "cat thisfiledoesnotexist" and then get the $? which should be not zero.... (6 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

how do i get the exit status from a ksh or perl script executed in a java program using Runtime? (1 Reply)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Guys, I am writing a script that executes a series of commands with a function like: _Command "ps -ef | grep java" _Command "vmstat" _Command "llll" Even if one of these commands fail, my script should exit with non-zero code i.e 16. If all commands are successful, my script should exit... (7 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi , I have a bash script , which does the network configuration. Messages from this script are dumped on console as well as stored in a log file . This script is invoked from a C code using system call . The script returns different exit code , to indicate different error cases. The... (1 Reply)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a script named check which will read the content of a file and check wether those files exist in the current directory. If so it will have the exit status of 0, otherwise it will have 1. check script: #!/bin/bash if ; then #Check there is enough command line parameters. exit 1... (2 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all, I am trying to use a script (a.sh) which is calling another script(b.sh). And I want to use the exit code(set by me) of b.sh in a.sh. I am using this in b.sh #!/bin/sh <-- code --> if ; then exit 0 else exit 1 fiBut... (2 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Main Script #!/bin/ksh echo "Maimn script" ./clocal/www/web-data/WAS/WebSphere7/scripts/DealerLocator/Scripts/secondscript.ksh echo "$? = status" Sdecond Script #!/bin/ksh echo "In second SCript" exit 1 Output: Maimn script ./testmain.ksh:... (4 Replies)