Issue:
i have variable A which is an alias for variable B which is equal to "THIS IS A TEST"
when every i echo variable A i only get the alias name for variable B, NOT the contents of variable B.
HOSTNAME# echo $TESTIT
+ echo THIS IS A TEST
THIS IS A TEST
HOSTNAME# ls -l
total... (10 Replies)
Hi everyone,
I am trying to create a simple batch file to make SQL backups. this part of it works fine. Currently the script can mysql dump the databases, compress them, delete the .sql, compress the individual tar.gz into one larger one, delete the smaller files, encrypt the final tar.gz and... (1 Reply)
Hello,
I am needing to create a variable and assign it a value based on the value of a previosly defined variable... I am using KSH..
Example:
VAR1=COMPUTER1
I need another variable like ${VAR1}_FLAG="Y", so it would actually be COMPUTER1_FLAG="Y".
I will be looping through many values in... (2 Replies)
Hey folks,
I'm pretty new to unix programming. I was trying to get something to work but it's not doing what I expected.
#!/bin/ksh
. ./functions.sh
STRING=function_1
FUNCTION="$STRING"
RETURN=eval $FUNCTION
echo "value of $FUNCTION function is: $RETURN"
All i'm... (5 Replies)
Hi Friends,
I'm calling 'sed' command inside one perl script, which is to list directory names which are having some date value as their names (in the form YYYYMMDD) with in the range (start and end date).
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use warnings;
my $DATA = "/export/home/ganapa";
my... (5 Replies)
echo "$previous_tmp$i"
I have a 5 variables like
previous1
previous2
previous3
previous4
previous5
I want to use a for loop to call them one by one.
How can I ?:confused: (2 Replies)
First post on here. So I use csh shells for my research (physics... not a CS person). I am trying to rerun the same scripts, but there are ~10 files that have similar variables that I have to change for each different configuration, so I would like one central file for the variables I change that... (3 Replies)
Hi everyone,
Is it possible to set a variable that calls another variable?
I.E.
SCRIPT=MY_SCRIPT.ksh ${VAR5}
${VAR5} is set earlier in the script, and I want to be able to call this when setting the ${SCRIPT} variable.
I hope this makes sense.
Thanks for your help. (3 Replies)
Hi All,
I have file which have looks like below
abc=${def}
def=${efg}
efg= "this is the actual value"
based on "abc" value I have to call "efg" value , Am using below lines but it is not working
#!/bin/bash
source file.txt
echo $abc
Please wrap all code, files, input &... (5 Replies)
I'm trying to do something like this:
find . -name blablabla -exec ln -s ./"{:53:14} blablabla" \;
The idea is find blablabla and create a symbolic link to it using part of it's path and then it's name, "blablabla."
I just don't know if I can call characters out of a find variable. ... (16 Replies)
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symlink
symlink(4) Kernel Interfaces Manual symlink(4)NAME
symlink - symbolic link
DESCRIPTION
A symbolic (or soft ) link is a file whose name indirectly refers (points) to a relative or absolute path name.
During path name interpretation, a symbolic link to a relative path name is expanded to the path name being interpreted, and a symbolic
link to an absolute path name is replaced with the path name being interpreted.
Thus, given the path name
If is a symbolic link to a relative path name such as the path name is interpreted as
If is a symbolic link to an absolute path name such as the path name is interpreted as
All symbolic links are interpreted in this manner, with one exception: when the symbolic link is the last component of a path name, it is
passed as a parameter to one of the system calls: or (see readlink(2), rename(2), symlink(2), unlink(2), chown(2) and lstat(2)). With
these calls, the symbolic link, itself, is accessed or affected.
Unlike normal (hard) links, a symbolic link can refer to any arbitrary path name and can span different logical devices (volumes).
The path name can be that of any type of file (including a directory or another symbolic link), and may be invalid if no such path exists
in the system. (It is possible to make symbolic links point to themselves or other symbolic links in such a way that they form a closed
loop. The system detects this situation by limiting the number of symbolic links it traverses while translating a path name.)
The mode and ownership of a symbolic link is ignored by the system, which means that affects the actual file, but not the file containing
the symbolic link (see chmod(1)).
Symbolic links can be created using or (see ln(1) and symlink(2)).
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was developed by HP and the University of California, Berkeley.
SEE ALSO cp(1), symlink(2), readlink(2), link(2), stat(2), mknod(1M).
symlink(4)