Thanks for your reply. I have to use your first suggestion, why didn't I think of that Reason being is that your second suggestion does not work on PDKsh and KSH88 ...I tried it out on the 3 servers that I need to run the script for and the second suggestion you mentioned only works for KSH93.
Good idea on using the return instead of exit. Just to clarify, the return will always return to the calling sub, correct?
BTW, I also just discovered that if I have more than 4 select options to choose, it wraps into the next column, is there any way to control this behavior?
Thanks again for reply.
Yes, ksh didn't add support for $'...' until ksh93.
I'm not sure what you mean by calling sub. In my example, menu_main was called from the main body of the ksh script. A return from a ksh function or dot script will return to the invoking shell script.
I'm also not sure what you mean by wraps into the next column. If you mean that adding more choices to the select makes that line in your script wider than your screen width or editing window width, you can use a
backslash newline to continue your choices onto the next line. For example:
If I have a flatfile like vote.dat
NAME | SEX | DATETIME | VOTE
Jason|M|2005-12-10 08.01.30|Y
Benson|M|2005-12-10 12.01.00|Y
William|M|2005-12-10 08.01.09|Y
Nick|M|2005-12-11 09.01.07|Y
Pascal|M|2005-12-11 01.01.06|Y
Mickey|F|2005-12-12 12.01.30|Y
How can I write a korn script to have... (4 Replies)
hi All,
Have a doubt in ksh..Am not familiar with arrays but i have tried out a script..
plzzzzz correct me with the script
My i/p File is:
(DESCRIPTION =
(ADDRESS_LIST =
(ADDRESS =
(PROTOCOL = TCP)
(Host = 192.168.2.2)
(Port = 1525)
)
)
(CONNECT_DATA = (SID = TESTDB1)
)
)
... (7 Replies)
...when the lines use both a colon and commas to separate the parts you want read as information.
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Hi Folks,
I am new to ksh, i have informatica parameter file that i need to update everyday with shell script. i need your help updating this file with new parameters.
sample data
$$TABLE1_DATE=04-27-2011
$$TABLE2_DATE=04-23-2011
$$TABLE3_DATE=03-19-2011
.......Highligned... (4 Replies)
I cannot seem to get this to work..
I have a file which has about 100 lines, and there is no end of line (line break \n) at the end of each line, and this is causing problem when i paste them into an application.
the file looks like this
this is a test
that is a test
balblblablblhblbha... (1 Reply)
<td>
CIS
</td>and I tried to sed 's/<td>\/nCIS\/n<\/td>/<td><\/td>' and sed 's/<td>\/rCIS\/r<\/td>/<td><\/td>' , but no joy. This is an html page that I need to clean. (4 Replies)
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Hi All
I am using the below code to chose a file to view :
PS3="Select file to view : "
select FILE in `ls` QUIT
do
if ; then
clear
cat $FILE
else
break
fi
REPLY=''
done
Everything works fine as long as I am giving the correct choice .
But when i give a... (4 Replies)
PS3="Enter corresponding number and hit enter:"
select DIR in `cat mylist` QUIT
do
if
then
echo "INVALID INPUT"
else
if ; then
my commands .....
else
break
fi
fi
REPLY=''
done
The above will return something like below :
Select from the list of... (4 Replies)
Hello everyone!
I'm trying to make the below file1 look like file2, can anyone help?
Basically I just hit backspace on every line that starts with a number.
Thanks!
file1:
THIS#IS-IT1
4
THIS#IS-IT2
3
THIS#IS-IT3
2
THIS#IS-IT4
1
Result > file2: (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: demmel
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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS
print
print(1) User Commands print(1)NAME
print - shell built-in function to output characters to the screen or window
SYNOPSIS
ksh
print [ -Rnprsu [n]] [arg...]
DESCRIPTION
ksh
The shell output mechanism. With no flags or with flag - or -, the arguments are printed on standard output as described by echo(1).
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-n suppresses new-line from being added to the output.
-R
-r (raw mode) ignore the escape conventions of echo. The -R option will print all subsequent arguments and options other than
-n.
-p causes the arguments to be written onto the pipe of the process spawned with |& instead of standard output.
-s causes the arguments to be written onto the history file instead of standard output.
-u [ n ] flag can be used to specify a one digit file descriptor unit number n on which the output will be placed. The default is 1.
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0 Successful operation.
>0 Output file is not open for writing.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO echo(1), ksh(1), attributes(5)SunOS 5.10 15 Apr 1994 print(1)