1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Have tried the search, but nothing resembles what I'd like to accomplish. I am attempting to write a script that will allow the user to input a list of data at the command prompt, then the data is used by another script for processing. I am allowing the user a list of 10 members in order to... (4 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I have a shell script that has to taken inputs from a file say "Inputs". Now I take 2 inputs at a time. Suppose the Inputs file contains numbers like 2 3 4 5 Now I have a written a script for adding 2 numbers. When I run the script for first time 2 and 3 must be the inputs. When i run the... (4 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

I am trying to extract two fields from the output of ifconfig command on one of my sun server . The output looks like : root@e08k18:/tmp/test# ifconfig -a lo0: flags=1000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 8232 index 1 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000 ce0:... (9 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, How do i modify the below script such that if the input is numeric, it will give the numeric digit, else it will ouput "0" echo "xxx" | awk '/^+$/' (6 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi how can i backup files setrain size Thanks (1 Reply)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi. I wanted to create a Perl script which can take the outputs of a Perl script as it's input and temporarily store them in a document. Need help. Thanks.:) (8 Replies)

7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

how to Change the % prompt to - prompt in unix :wall: ---------- Post updated at 07:40 AM ---------- Previous update was at 07:38 AM ---------- How To display the last modification time of any file in unix ---------- Post updated at 07:40 AM ---------- Previous update was at 07:40 AM... (2 Replies)

8. Solaris

Hi, on sunfire v890 unable to move from rsc prompt to ok prompt, i have executed the command break. (9 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, i want to print 2nd column value with the below script. I need to take input of the string i need to search in that file and file name. How can i take these two as inputs? using read command? Getting error for below script. echo "enter SID" read SID echo "enter filename" read filename... (8 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have doubts with the following command: % find "$1" -name "*.html" -print0 | sort -zn | xargs -r -0 -n 1 sh -c 'echo "Dumping file: $2" >> "$1"; w3m "$2" >> "$1" 2>&1 ' sh "$2" I have doubts in the input arguments value i.e. $0, $1, $2... Step by step: 1.- % find "$1" -name "*.html"... (10 Replies)