You don't need to run ID 5 times to get 5 different pieces of data from it. Run it once, get all the data from it the first time.
You are using single quotes, which take their contents literally, where you need backticks, which run their contents. But you don't even need that statement.
You don't need to do \( all the time, just use quotes. Variables will expand inside double-quotes, even, so you don't need to end the quotes to use a variable.
Whenever you're doing if [ `... | wc -l` -gt somevalue ] to check something, you've probably missed a simpler way. Here, since I've overwritten the $1 ... arguments, I use the special "$#" variable, the number of arguments instead.
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Hi I have the following script and have problem debugging the problems. The function of this script is to make sure the entire file is being received (the filesize of a data is not changing after 20 seconds) and start moving the file to another directory. This script should be started every 30mins.... (5 Replies)
dear friends,
I have a large size file containg two fields data
like this
*** ****
122 222
***** *****
***** *****
232 233
i have file like this.
i want to remove blank lines from file .
i think awk is servive this problem
i wrote a awk command but the error is... (3 Replies)
Hi All,
can some one figure out the syntax issue here. How to overcome this?
#!/bin/sh
$ HFR_MAIL=NO
$ PRP_MAIL=NO
$ MC_MAIL=NO
$ if && && ]; then
> echo "NO "
> else
> echo "YES"
> fi
test: unknown operator NO
$ if && && ]; then
> echo "NO"
> else
> echo "YES"
>... (4 Replies)
Hi
what's the correct way of writing if
1)if "$time_diff" -gt 5
then
echo "killing hung process \n"
fi
2)if test $time_diff -gt 5
then
echo "killing hung process \n"
fi
where -time_diff=$(($Sam - $current_min))
and current_min=`date +%M`
infact both are giving Syntax... (1 Reply)
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)
Hi,
I have following K script, that is in rc0.d directory to be run on shutdown. It's linked using the 'ln' command to init.d.Can anyone tell me as to why it's not running, or if i have incorrect syntax?I get:
"test: argument expected
type=uname -p
+ "
When running it with sh -x
... (8 Replies)
Using korn shell. I am reading a file line by line. If a record has a carriage return (octal 015) then I append the second record to the first record. Not all records have a carriage return. I have the unix shell script working with grep, but when my file has +100,000 records it runs slow. I would... (3 Replies)
Dears ,
kindly I wanna do test for one KSH script to know how is it working , the problem that I'm facing is whenever put "sh -x ./my_script.sh"
the output seems very long & although I tried to to redirect it to files as it shown , but it failed :eek: :-
sh -x ./my_script.sh >... (2 Replies)
I'm calling the following if-else from nawk. But I keep getting an error at the "else". I've tried putting more brackets and ; but still I get complaints about the "else".
Any ideas ?
Thanks,
wbrunc
BEGIN { FS = "," ; OFS = "," }
{ if ( $8 ~ /A/ && $9 == B )
$1="4/29/2013" ;
$2="J.Doe"... (2 Replies)
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echo
echo(1B) SunOS/BSD Compatibility Package Commands echo(1B)NAME
echo - echo arguments to standard output
SYNOPSIS
/usr/ucb/echo [-n] [argument]
DESCRIPTION
echo writes its arguments, separated by BLANKs and terminated by a NEWLINE, to the standard output.
echo is useful for producing diagnostics in command files and for sending known data into a pipe, and for displaying the contents of envi-
ronment variables.
For example, you can use echo to determine how many subdirectories below the root directory (/) is your current directory, as follows:
o echo your current-working-directory's full pathname
o pipe the output through tr to translate the path's embedded slash-characters into space-characters
o pipe that output through wc -w for a count of the names in your path.
example% /usr/bin/echo "echo $PWD | tr '/' ' ' | wc -w"
See tr(1) and wc(1) for their functionality.
The shells csh(1), ksh(1), and sh(1), each have an echo built-in command, which, by default, will have precedence, and will be invoked if
the user calls echo without a full pathname. /usr/ucb/echo and csh's echo() have an -n option, but do not understand back-slashed escape
characters. sh's echo(), ksh's echo(), and /usr/bin/echo, on the other hand, understand the black-slashed escape characters, and ksh's
echo() also understands a as the audible bell character; however, these commands do not have an -n option.
OPTIONS -n Do not add the NEWLINE to the output.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWscpu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO csh(1), echo(1), ksh(1), sh(1), tr(1), wc(1), attributes(5)NOTES
The -n option is a transition aid for BSD applications, and may not be supported in future releases.
SunOS 5.11 3 Aug 1994 echo(1B)