Hi everyone,
I am trying to set up the .profile for a user I have just created. In trying to set up the shell variables, I want to make the shell be korn shell (default shell i believe is Borne shell), so, this is what I did:
SHELL=/usr/bin/ksh
export SHELL
Whenl executing the .profile,... (1 Reply)
I'm not quite sure what I'm doing wrong here.
I've go several jobs which print reports. Occassionally a printer will break down and reports need to be move to another printer. Rather than hard code the printer names in our scripts I'm trying to set these programatically
using our function... (1 Reply)
i have a file .NAMEexport MY_NAME=JOE
when i do this at the command prompt #. .NAME
$echo MY_NAME
$JOEi created a script called Run.sh . .NAME At the command prompt i did #sh Run.sh
#echo $MY_NAMEit returns nothing. What have i missed out? (7 Replies)
Hi all,
I have a shell script that sets up the environment for an application running on UNIX - ksh. This script is run using:
. ./script_name XX
where XX is a parameter. I want to run it from another shell script but when I do it I don't get the envornment variables set up and the prompt... (3 Replies)
Hello everyone,
I am currently trying to program in java in unix platform for the first time, so far it is OK as long as I use class libraries which come with java distribution. Unfortunately when I try to use external libraries I have to use -classpath option which I rather not doing all the... (1 Reply)
I'm trying to understand if it's possible to create a set of variables that are numbered based on another variable (using eval) in a loop, and then call on it before the loop ends.
As an example I've written a script called question (The fist command is to show what is the contents of the... (2 Replies)
hi all,
I would appreciate if some one could explain me the difference between setting up the variables as shown below
HOME=${HOME:-"/home/user1"}
HOME=/home/user1 (1 Reply)
I'm wondering if any of you could lend an assist with a small problem.
First, I'm under the impression I need to use Delayed Environment Variable Expansion (DEVE), based on other things I've read across the web.
Summary: trying to use command shell (cmd.exe) in XP sp3 (if that's relevant) to... (4 Replies)
Hello Everyone,
I'm still trying to grasp many concepts in .ksh scripting, one of them being variables inside loops. My problem is the following:
* I'm trying to set a variable inside a while read loop to reuse it outside of said loop. My lines are the following :... (13 Replies)
So I'm writing a script to generate pairwise scores for how similar two strings are, and while I've been able to get it to work on a single script, I've been unable to iterate it.
So suppose I have a file thus
1234567890
1234567890
1234567899
first I need to assign two lines, by their... (3 Replies)
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echo
echo(1B) SunOS/BSD Compatibility Package Commands echo(1B)NAME
echo - echo arguments to standard output
SYNOPSIS
/usr/ucb/echo [-n] [argument]
DESCRIPTION
echo writes its arguments, separated by BLANKs and terminated by a NEWLINE, to the standard output.
echo is useful for producing diagnostics in command files and for sending known data into a pipe, and for displaying the contents of envi-
ronment variables.
For example, you can use echo to determine how many subdirectories below the root directory (/) is your current directory, as follows:
o echo your current-working-directory's full pathname
o pipe the output through tr to translate the path's embedded slash-characters into space-characters
o pipe that output through wc -w for a count of the names in your path.
example% /usr/bin/echo "echo $PWD | tr '/' ' ' | wc -w"
See tr(1) and wc(1) for their functionality.
The shells csh(1), ksh(1), and sh(1), each have an echo built-in command, which, by default, will have precedence, and will be invoked if
the user calls echo without a full pathname. /usr/ucb/echo and csh's echo() have an -n option, but do not understand back-slashed escape
characters. sh's echo(), ksh's echo(), and /usr/bin/echo, on the other hand, understand the black-slashed escape characters, and ksh's
echo() also understands a as the audible bell character; however, these commands do not have an -n option.
OPTIONS -n Do not add the NEWLINE to the output.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWscpu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO csh(1), echo(1), ksh(1), sh(1), tr(1), wc(1), attributes(5)NOTES
The -n option is a transition aid for BSD applications, and may not be supported in future releases.
SunOS 5.11 3 Aug 1994 echo(1B)