1. Shell Programming and Scripting

It can get very annoying that bash regex =~ is case-sensetive, is there a way to set it to be case-insensetive? if ]; then echo match else echo no match fi (8 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

can anyone post a sample code for a switch case in shell (1 Reply)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

greetings, I have a script that is taking input like this: a b c d aa bb aaa bbb ccc ddd and formating it to be like this: a b c d aa bb aaa bbb ccc ddd (4 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi. The below part of my bash script kicks out the following error message: $ ./extract_eod_report_stats_new.sh 2010-04-23 ./extract_eod_report_stats_new.sh: line 204: syntax error near unexpected token `(' ./extract_eod_report_stats_new.sh: line 204: `TRANSACTIONS_RECEIVED_TOP=`grep... (6 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

So what i am trying to do is write a script that takes in any number of scrambeled words and unscrambles them. I have already addressed the issues of partial matches, exits silently if there are no matches, and finds words regardless of case that they were input. but while trying to get it so... (3 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have the following bash script and it is not accepting the lines "--"|"--""-") "--""-"") while do echo "Current Argument is ${1}" case "$1" in "--"|"--""-") echo "Argument is ${1}" shift # Skip ahead one to the next argument. ... (1 Reply)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all, I am trying to run a cronjob to push my files to my git repo once a week and output a prompt to a logfile, my script works fine if I invoke it manually but my cronjob wont run for some reason, I have sourced the file, and restarted my Mac to no avail, right now I believe I have the cronjob... (8 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi Gurus, I have the below BASH code which does not works for upper case alphabets except Z (upper case Z). What may be the reason. Also escape sequences like \n, \t, \b, \033(1m \033(0m (For bold letter) are not working. case $var in ) echo "Lower case alphabet" ;; ... (7 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Please - this is my FIRST ever attempt on scrip and I just want simple answer if possible. I am modifying existing and working script. I just want to and more to it so I started with simple insertion of working code into menu. I am doing OK, but I cannot figure out why I am executing... (8 Replies)