Basically, the program needs to sit in terminal forever waiting for a keystroke. After an initial keystroke, it needs to wait a very short amount of time (1/10th of a second in this case) for another keystroke. If no keystroke is registered in that short time, it echos the output (which will be piped with sed commands), and restarts.
Hmmm.
I think a terminal device can do that all by itself without bash's help, actually! From man termios:
HI guys
I need to store the output of a sql query in a variable, can you tell me how to do that
eg) select count(*) from s_escl_req
$count = count(*) from s_escl_req
how would i store the count(*) from the sql statement in a variable called $count.
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Hi all,
I had written 3 KSH scripts for different functionalities. In all these 3 files there are some 30 variables in common. So I want to reduce the code by placing these variables in a common properties file named (dataload.prop/dataload.parms/dataload.txt) or txt file and access it... (1 Reply)
I have a variable $exe in a shell script file a.sh which I need to access in another shell script file b.sh. How can I do that? :rolleyes:
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Hi All,
I have a shell script called sample1.sh where I have 2 variables. Now I have another shell script called sample2.sh. I want the variables in sample1.sh to be available to sample2.sh.
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Hi,
I am new to shell scripting. I need to extract data between repeating tags from an xml file and store the data in an array to process it further.
<ns1:root xmlns:ns1="http://example.com/config">
<ns1:interface>in1</ns1:interface>
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Hello,
I want to add a letter to the end of a string if it repeats in a column.
so if I have a file like this:
DOG001
DOG0023
DOG004
DOG001
DOG0023
DOG001
the output should look like this:
DOG001-a
DOG0023-a
DOG004
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Dear Unix gurus,
We have a config shell script file which has 30 variables which needs to be passed to master unix shell script that invokes oracle database sessions. So those 30 variables need to go through the database sessions (They are inputs) via a shell script. one of the variable name... (1 Reply)
Dear Unix gurus,
We have a config shell script file which has 30 variables which needs to be passed to master unix shell script that invokes oracle database sessions. So those 30 variables need to go through the database sessions (They are inputs) via a shell script. one of the variable name... (1 Reply)
Hi All,
I have a script which intends to create as many variables at runtime, as the number of parameters passed to it. The script needs to save these parameter values in the variables created and print them
abc.sh
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export Numbr_Parms=$#
export a=1
while
do
export... (3 Replies)