1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all Trying to run my korn shell script, I got no messages after the sftp. The "finished" msg is not being displayed. Any ideas? sftp $argument <<EOF quit EOF echo "finished" Thanks in advance, :O) (1 Reply)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

What is the maximum size of a command which can be given in telnet command prompt in unixfor Korn shell? (2 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have to copy an array to a temp variable and back after doing some functions. I am trying to see if it is possible to do without while loops.My closest try was set -A temp ${THE_ARRAY} # restore array after some actions set -A THE_ARRAY ${temp} The problem with above is that, the new... (1 Reply)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Did not use 'wait' yet. How I understand by now the wait works only for child processes, started background. Is there any other way to watch completion of any, not related process (at least, a process, owned by the same user?) I need to start a background process, witch will be waiting... (2 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I am trying to execute the below in Ksh (telnet) find ./request.txt -mmin -30 It says find: bad option -mmin What i am trying to do is by using find command i am checking wheather the file request.txt is there for 30 minutes or not Please help (1 Reply)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

HI, I have a strange problem. A shell script that runs fine on solaris. when i ported to linux, it started hanging. here is the core of the script CFG_FILE=tab25.cfg sort -t "!" -k 2 ${CFG_FILE} | egrep -v "^#|^$" | while IFS="!" read a b c do #echo "jobs output" #jobs #echo "jobs... (13 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Can anybody help me with this small script , the script works fine and launches the IE from c:\documents and settings \test\my documents>ksh prompt $RunURL1.sh this scitpt works and launches the ie from ksh , but when i schedule it to run the script then i get the error box saying command:1... (2 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

hello, i use following command: md5sum TEST.xml the output looks like: 900hjidur84hjr938ikv TEST.xml as you can see, the first part is the md5 code, the second part is the file name, but i only want the first part(md5 code), and save it to a file, how to do that? thanks. (2 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I am facing a strange issue, when i call a script from my while loop in background it doesnt go in background, despite the wait i put below the whil loop it goes forward even before the process put in background is completed. cat abc.txt | while read -u4 line do #if line contains #... (2 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, I have a question related to Shell scripting. In my shell script, I have following two commands in sequence: sed 's/^/grep "^120" /g' $ORIGCHARGEDAMTLIST|sed "s;$;| cut -f$FIELD_NO1 -d '|' | awk '{ sum+=\$1} END {printf (\"%0.2f\\\n\", sum/100)}' >$TEMPFILE mv $TEMPFILE $ORIGFILE... (3 Replies)