I am using the code below to write a command to launch a script only if the number of users on the system is less than 10. The code below isn't working. Any suggestions? HELP..
if && ; then frizzle ; fi (3 Replies)
Hi there - am newish to shell scripting and would appreciate some advice on this...
Am trying to use what I have seen called 'compound variables' in other langs but with no success in my shell script. This is the kind of thing I'm trying to do:
base_val=123
stop=3
x=1
while
do
... (3 Replies)
Using bash, I'm trying to read a .properties file (name=value pairs), assigning an indirect variable reference for each line in the file.
The trick is that a property's value string may contain the name of a property that occurred earlier in the file, and I want the name of the 1st property to... (5 Replies)
I'm trying to write a script using the 'find' command and it's -exec option to run a compound command against the files found.
Example:
find . -name "*.conf" -exec cat {} | grep "#" > /tmp/comments.list \;
Of course the above doesn't work. So I experimented for a bit to see if there was... (6 Replies)
how can i use two or multiple statements in the if part
of an awk code
for example
i want to check two flag if they are true i will write some print
operations and increase the counter.
here is the c version of the code that i want to write:
counter=0;
if (flag1==1 && flag2==0) {... (7 Replies)
in a text " Korn Shell Unix programming Manual 3° Edition"
i have found this sintax to declare a compoud variable:
variable=(
fild1
fild1
)
but this sintax in ksh and sh (HP-UNIX) not work...
why?? exist another solution for this type of variable ??? (5 Replies)
I am writing a Bash script that will either clone a database or setup a standby database. So Parameter 2 will be the operation type. If the value is not clone or standby I want to throw an error message. I suppose I can also do a case block. So far i have been unable to get the syntax working... (1 Reply)
Can anyone explain for me why this does not work in tcl:
if !{( $a > "" || $b > "" )} { .......
where a and b are string vars.
and this works instead:
if {!( $a > "" || $b > "" )} { ........
Thanks. (6 Replies)