1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello. Consider the following magic words: # ls `which adduser` ls: /usr/sbin/adduser: No such file or directory # Hmmm... Then: # ls /usr/sbin/adduser /usr/sbin/adduser # Now what? Unforunately this little sniippet is used in my debian woody server's mysql pre install script.... (2 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I use the command ls a\b\c\*.txt from the command line on HP UNIX and it works fine - It lists all files matching *.txt in the a\b\c directory When embeded in a ksh script `ls a\b\c\*.txt` it does not work - I get *.txt not found (even though there are files) I tried... (10 Replies)

3. Solaris

Hi, I am working in SunOS 5.8. I wanted to run a script in background and I gave the following command, but it is not working. I gave "nohup ksh ULOAD.ksh &" It just came out giving a msg "Redirection or piping of stdin or stdout is allowed only with -b. (156)" in nohup.out file. If I... (2 Replies)

4. Solaris

Hello All, Here is a problem of NOHUP. I am trying to run a process which needs to be up and running even if the session is closed. I tried running it with "nohup", but starngely it is not working, when i exit from the session the process is also getting killed? plz help me in finding out... (4 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

total=0 seq 1 5 | while read i ; do total=$(($total+$i)) echo $total done echo $totalThis outputs: 1 3 6 10 15 0whereas I am expecting: 1 3 6 10 15 15My bash version: (4 Replies)

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I need to sort through a volume that contains video files by access time and delete files that have not been accessed over x days. I have to use the access time as video files are originals that do not get modified, just read Testing commands on a local test folder... $ date Wed Sep 28... (10 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all, I wrote a scirpt (abc.sh) in which I defined a loop with an interval equal to 1 hour. I want this script continue to run when I close the terminal, so I ran the following command, (in the proper directory) nohup abc.sh However the script doesn't just keep running when I... (1 Reply)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, I am trying to run a shell script with the nohup command. The shell script takes an array of files, runs a python program on each file in a loop, and appends the output to a file. This works fine on the server, but if I try to use the nohup command it does not work. --- #!/bin/sh... (10 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Please I have run a background script using nohup please tell me way to stop this. Thanks in Advance (4 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, I am trying to make a bash script, I tested nohup but it did not help me. My code is: ffmpeg -i $input_url -c:v copy -c:a copy -listen 1 -f mpegts http://localhost:port/live/test When I open it in VLC, it starts feeding my screen and I see bitrate values. When I stop watching it,... (4 Replies)