1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I find that if I use nohup (in bourne shell script) then all the interactive parts in my code are gone hidden... e.g., the places asking input from the user (such as ckyorn) will not be displayed. This is no good. Is there a way to use nohup (or similar utility) and meanwhile, to keep the... (9 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

I need to your help. I want write a script search for rows in file1 if exist in file2 it will print rows from file2 else it will print rows from file1 with out any duplicate ... (4 Replies)

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, I need execute a script every 30 minutes. As might be done without using cron Thx. (6 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi Gurus, I have prepared a script to find the log file based on a date range defined in one of the environment files, archive the logs files and move them to a particular directory. Below is the script: . /home/.profile . /home/.inf_env logfile=$scripts_path/Logs/file_archive1.log... (17 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I'm executing a binary with nohup in a menu(shellscript) and output is going to nohup.out fine. I need few lines of nohup.out should be displayed on screen so that I will come to know the process is successfully started and continue with other options in my menu. Thanks in advance. (3 Replies)

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi All, Firstly thanks for reading my query..I am a complete newbie in Unix and I recently read about nohup command which is responsible to continue execution in background. But I have found some command where time is used alongwith nohup as given below:- nohup time A.sh & I don't know why... (2 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, so I have been trying to write a shell script to go through a log file and through that, generate another file with all the Valid IP addresses it finds. So there's the complication that there could be incomplete or invalid data which would disqualify it from making my "Valid IPs" file I need... (3 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

I got rather bored so i decided to create a script that creates a countdown, and shows hours:minutes:seconds till that time. It works fine until the seconds of the actual time reaches 8, then it tries to use it to work out the difference as in "SECONDDIFF=$" Here's my code where I get the... (12 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Shell : bash OS : Oracle Linux 6.4 I want to save the ouput of a nohup command to file other than nohup.out . Below are my 3 attempts. For both Attempt1 and Attempt2 , the redirection logs the output correctly to the output file. But I get the error "ignoring input and redirecting stderr to... (7 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a problem here. i am running my script in nohup but if i run it 2 or three time , in my output i see it is giving me old data as well, in-spite i delete nohup.out file. i tried to look a lot from where the old data is coming. can some one tell me how the old data is also coming again and... (11 Replies)