1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All I have a need due time constraint to issue the mail command in background. I have a script that sends a message to a mail address as follows :- echo "$MLINE" | mail -s "$HOST - $TEXT" name@co.com & The script runs frequently and I check to see if the script is active and if it is , it... (5 Replies)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

How do I execute a batch command from a script, which "waits" with the next command until the first one has finished? ======= A piece of my script looks like this: #!/bin/sh (...) # run a long batch job: ./run_calculation.sh # then rename resulting file: mv output.dat backup.dat (...) ... (7 Replies)

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi all, I'm working on Windows, connecting to my Unix account by different ways: by FTP opening files in UltraEdit32, by mapping drive to browse, by Exceed or Telnet to compile at Unix account. Actually, that is what I would like to change: I'd like to make a batch file which would connect to... (7 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have been trying to run a unix script which contains many sql statements.I need to run this script every monday morning. I tried to run on command prompt, it works fine. But while I run it via batch or at command., it returns with library module could not be loaded (libcompat.1.o could not be... (3 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, how do we change user in a shell script- batch mode. Thanks, Rajesh (3 Replies)

6. Windows & DOS: Issues & Discussions

hello, I'd like a batch command to prompt me for a password when I try to use it, and only work if I type in the correct password, can this be done? thanks in advance. (8 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi there, in near future I have to change my work surrounding from HP UNIX to Windows Vista (great to get rid of old hardware :), but bad to loose UNIX :( ). As I heavily use KSH scripts to do my job, I was wondering, if there is any HowTo available, supporting me in re-writing the scripts to... (4 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

How to batch-processing numerous shell scripts? how to record the result of all the scripts as a report? then, I can analysis the process result. I want to process numerous shell scripts in my working directory: the directory name is consistent with shell scripts name, that is to say,... (2 Replies)

9. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

I need to run a test SFTP command in a batch mode and what I need to prompt my password after the sftp userid@hostname. I do not have have an ssh key exchanged between my server and the external server. I only have access to it as an sftp server. I must enter my password in my script. How do i... (2 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, I need to write Unix shell script. To star with : I need to do some file checking on unix file system, then based on file existance, I need to run diff SQL in Teradata Bteq. After that, depending on Results of SQL, I need to code other shell scripting like moving file, within same... (4 Replies)