I dont know if this is weird , or my idea of Unix stdin or stdout is completely messed up , but if I use the following command, I am getting a proper output.
Code:
ls -l | head -1 | while read a ; do echo $a ;done
and the output is soemthing like total 32
But, on the contrary , if I use
Code:
ls -l | head -1 | read a ; echo $a
it yields an empty value
My idea was , as because the commands are piped , the output of ls command will flow to standard input and will be read to the variable a.
But , its happening only when I used the while-read loop , and not the stand alone read .
Hi,
Is there a way to have something working like the read Unix command to stop a awk ask a question and get the result.
I've try system("read a") but it does not work.
Thanks.
Franck. (6 Replies)
hi,
Can anyone tell me how I make a tree on the console showing the largest folders on my UNIX system?
I want to know where are located the biggest files so I can free some disk space.
thanks a lot. (3 Replies)
in unix when i use top
i get an output like this:
load averages: 0.64, 0.57, 0.53 14:04:42
347 processes: 1 running, 1 waiting, 169 sleeping, 172 idle, 4 stopped
CPU states: 16.4% user, 2.8% nice, 7.6%... (2 Replies)
can any one please help me how to use "read" command for openig a file.i want to process the file record by record and then needs to search for a particular string at a particular position.can any one please let me know the code.i am new to the shell.
below are sample sample records
... (3 Replies)
Hi All,
Please help me out
1) Command to find the disk usage in GB. I know that du -k will give in kilobites.
2) How to find the Biggest file/folder in a given set of files/folders.
Thanks in advance
Regards,
Manas (8 Replies)
how can I find cpu usage memory usage swap usage and
I want to know CPU usage above X% and contiue Y times and memory usage above X % and contiue Y times
my final destination is monitor process
logical volume usage above X % and number of Logical voluage above
can I not to... (3 Replies)
Ok, so I am using the Top command on my linux VPS to try and see the processes using the most CPU %.
I hit the P to sort by CPU % but it wants to sort them from lowest to highest (ascending). My Telnet-SSH screen is only about 60 rows high so the processes with the highest CPU % usage are at the... (6 Replies)
Hi all,
Can you please tell me the command, with which one can know the amount of space a specific directory has used.
df -k . ---> Displays, the amount of space allocated, and used for a directory.
du -k <dir name> - gives me the memory used of all the files inside <dir>
But i... (2 Replies)
Hello,
Below, I have a unix command, which can be executable for single file.
cat input.txt | sort -k3,3 > output.txt
I have 100 input files in a directory. It is hectic and time taking to run the above command for all the 100 files for 100 times.
Now, I want to execute the above unix... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: koneru_18
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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS
times
times(1) User Commands times(1)NAME
times - shell built-in function to report time usages of the current shell
SYNOPSIS
sh
times
ksh
times
DESCRIPTION
sh
Print the accumulated user and system times for processes run from the shell.
ksh
Print the accumulated user and system times for the shell and for processes run from the shell.
On this man page, ksh(1) commands that are preceded by one or two * (asterisks) are treated specially in the following ways:
1. Variable assignment lists preceding the command remain in effect when the command completes.
2. I/O redirections are processed after variable assignments.
3. Errors cause a script that contains them to abort.
4. Words, following a command preceded by ** that are in the format of a variable assignment, are expanded with the same rules as a vari-
able assignment. This means that tilde substitution is performed after the = sign and word splitting and file name generation are not
performed.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO ksh(1), sh(1), time(1), attributes(5)SunOS 5.10 15 Apr 1994 times(1)
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