1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Portion of my script below : if ; then NUMBEROFFEILDS=`cat ${BASE_SCRIPT_LOC}/standardfilecleanup.lst|grep -w ${db_file_path}|awk -F: '{print NF}'` COUNT=4 while ; do awk_var="$"`echo $COUNT` file_name1=`cat ${BASE_SCRIPT_LOC}/standardfilecleanup.lst|grep -w... (1 Reply)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Apologies for the trivial nature of this question but I cannot seem to get a simple re direct to a log file to work Step 1 touch log.txt at -f batch.sh now >> log.txt I am trying to get the batch.sh contents into the log file Manny Thanks (8 Replies)

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I am trying to write a script which will output notifications to a logfile, but I would like to cap the logfile to, let's say, 200 lines. Specifically I am using custom firmware, DD-wrt, on my router and I am implementing a script to connect to my work vpn. I have a loop that pings a computer... (2 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

I'm using cygwin on win7, What I would like to do is something like this: cygstart cygwin tail -f /foo/test.log | perl -pe 's/error/\e I know I can start a new instance using either of these: mintty -e ... cygstart tail ... But neither of those open in ANSI mode, so I can't do... (0 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

I am running tcsh/csh shell on my machine. lately i have realized my stderr file redirection is not working. Please find the terminal logs as below: >echo b c >>& log >cat log b c >echo $a b c >>& log a: Undefined variable. >cat log b c I have never faced such issues, hence not sure... (5 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I have downloaded a web page that I need to cleanup before passing to xmlstarlet. Using UltraEdit's HEX utility part of my download is as follows: 3C 2F 61 3E 0A 09 0A 09 09 3C 2F 61 3E which in ASCII is </a> </a> I need to locate this string and replace it with just... (7 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

I need to count the number of lines in a .txt file and put it in a variable. I am using the following code #!/bin/bash count = $(wc -l "some file.txt" | awk '{print$1}') echo $count It is giving the following error. line3: count: command not foundWhat am I doing wrong here? :confused: (7 Replies)

8. UNIX and Linux Applications

I have windows XP machine. Today i have tried to install Cygwin, I've downloaded all the packages then ran the setup. It's showed completed. But when i try to open this it's not working. Do i need to do anything extra for this..? Please help... (3 Replies)

9. Red Hat

hey, I need your help. I have a rhel server that runs application, that application writing to her local application log. I want that log will be realtime copying to a another remote rhel server. The thing is that I prohibited touch the application code. Is that possible? ... (5 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

I'm having a strange problem with basic >& output redirection to a simple log file in csh. When I run this particular output redirection on the command line, it works, but then when I run the same output redirection command >& in my c shell script, I get a blank log file. Nothing is output to the... (5 Replies)