1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I'm having trouble with Abnormal Termination errors. What are they, what causes them and how can I prevent them from happening? Are they application specific? (2 Replies)

2. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hello all, Here is the problem: A ksh script (let's call it abc.sh) gets kicked off from a menu program using "nohup abc.sh &". The process ID of abc.sh can be recieved (pid=$!). abc.sh runs an Oracle PL/SQL script (it creates a child process). In order to stop the abc.sh (and the child)... (5 Replies)

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi Can anybody tell the difference between Difference between cat , cat > , cat >> and touch command in UNIX? Thanks (6 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

I'm writing a script to archive data. First, the files are all rsync'd to the archive directory via NFS mounts(I know not the most efficient, but the only choice in this situation), then I use md5sum to validate the transfers. During execution of the script, it will exit for no apparent reason. It... (6 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, So I sorted my file as I was supposed to: sort -n -r -k 2 -k 1 file1 | uniq > file2 and when I wrote > cat file2 in the command line, I got what I was expecting, but in the script itself ... sort -n -r -k 2 -k 1 averages | uniq > temp cat file2 It wrote a whole... (21 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi I have a Shell script that needs to execute a command at the End of the excursion of other script And I cant get a handel On the trap command. And that is if the trap command Is the proper way to go this is a extract of the script MYHOST=`hostname| cut -d. -f1` echo $MYHOST ... (4 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a script in which we have used nohup. Once script is executed it will be terminated only when enter key is pressed. I want the script to be terminated without pressing enter key nohup imqbrokerd -name user_id port 2>1 1>$home_`date` & I am a newbie to shell, Kindly please help (3 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

I am running the gaussian program on UNIX with bash and I want to form a script that will email me once the output life terminates either "normal termination" or "false" I just started learning this last week so could you let me know how to go about this.:b: (13 Replies)