Hello, I was hoping for a second pair of eyes or a little bit of help figuring out what my error is in a script. I did some searching in the forums and didn't find anything so please forgive me if it a similar problem has been discussed before.
My script accepts normal user arguments; however,... (2 Replies)
Hi All,
We are in the process of Migrating from AIX 4 to Solaris 10 and getting a Few Errors.
I have been programming in shell but could never establish muself as an expert, hence please need you help.
I am Getting Bad Substitution error in my script, I have isolated the issue and its... (6 Replies)
hi,
i created a shell script having the following content:
#! /usr/bin/ksh
FROM="myemail@domain.com"
MAILTO="someemail@domain"
SUBJECT="TEST"
BODY="/export/home/adshocker/body.txt"
ATTACH="/export/home/adshocker/attach.prog"
echo $ATTACH
ATTACH_NAME="${ATTACH##*/}"
echo $ATTACH_NAME... (5 Replies)
Hello,
In bash I can use the following:
TMP=12345
MID=${TMP:1:1}
the expected result is: 2
but when using KSH I'm getting a ''bad substitution" error.
What is the correct syntaxin ksh?
Thanks (2 Replies)
#!/bin/bash
a1=( win 12,01,02,03,04 )
a2=( pre 04,05,06 )
a3=( msn 06,07,08,09 )
Given the above arrays, I want the script to return/echo the following in a loop;
win
12,01,02,03,04
pre
04,05,06,07
msn
06,07,08,09
But I can't get it to do as such.
I've tried; (2 Replies)
Hi All,
I'm building a new shell script but i'm facing a problem with one line which is giving "bad substitution" error. Please assist
script lines:
#!/bin/sh
printf "%s: " "Occurrence DATE (YYYYMMDD)"; read DATE
shortdate=${DATE#??}
o/p:
./test1: bad substitution
This command is... (2 Replies)
Hi guys. Good day, morning, afternoon or night, depending on where you live.
I have a script shell in which I am looping on files (absolute path) see code section above.
I always have an error: bad substitution.
:wall:
Is it because my variable file is the index of the loop and not a normal... (4 Replies)
Why I get bad replace when using eval?
$ map0=( "0" "0000" "0")
$ i=0
$ eval echo \${map$i}
0000
$ a=`eval echo \${map$i}` !!!error happens!!!
bash: ${map$i}: bad substitution
How to resolve it ?
Thanks! (5 Replies)
Hi I'm using ksh.
And i'm trying to get the substring like below.
but giving the following error
#!/bin/ksh
foo=teststring
bar=${foo:0:5}
echo $bar
And the error is
./sbstr_test.sh: bar=${foo:0:5}: bad substitution
what is wrong in this script. Please correct me
... (3 Replies)
I want to get the last character from my machine name using the following code, the default shell is bash, the script runs in ksh.
I get 'bad' substitution error on running the script, but works fine if run using dot and space.
Why?
$ echo $0
bash
$ cat -n myenv.sh
1 ... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: ysrini
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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS
shells
shells(4) File Formats shells(4)NAME
shells - shell database
SYNOPSIS
/etc/shells
DESCRIPTION
The shells file contains a list of the shells on the system. Applications use this file to determine whether a shell is valid. See getuser-
shell(3C). For each shell a single line should be present, consisting of the shell's path, relative to root.
A hash mark (#) indicates the beginning of a comment; subsequent characters up to the end of the line are not interpreted by the routines
which search the file. Blank lines are also ignored.
The following default shells are used by utilities: /bin/bash, /bin/csh, /bin/jsh, /bin/ksh, /bin/ksh93, /bin/pfcsh, /bin/pfksh, /bin/pfsh,
/bin/sh, /bin/tcsh, /bin/zsh, /sbin/jsh, /sbin/sh, /usr/bin/bash, /usr/bin/csh, /usr/bin/jsh, /usr/bin/ksh, /usr/bin/ksh93, /usr/bin/pfcsh,
/usr/bin/pfksh, /usr/bin/pfsh, and /usr/bin/sh, /usr/bin/tcsh, /usr/bin/zsh, and /usr/sfw/bin/zsh. /etc/shells overrides the default list.
Invalid shells in /etc/shells could cause unexpected behavior, such as being unable to log in by way of ftp(1).
FILES
/etc/shells list of shells on system
SEE ALSO vipw(1B), ftpd(1M), sendmail(1M), getusershell(3C), aliases(4)SunOS 5.11 20 Nov 2007 shells(4)