I have the following crontab entry to run a shell script for every 30 minutes of every day:
30 * * * * $HOME/main.sh > $HOME/main.log 2>$HOME/error.log
after I created the crontab file I have also done:
$crontab my_crontab
I also check to make sure it exists, by using the following... (11 Replies)
Please help - I have seen others ask this question but I need a simple example of using vi in a shell script. Once I enter VI the shell script does not execute the next commands until I q!. I invoke VI and start the edit process. I want to go to the third line and replace a character with a new... (2 Replies)
Hi, need help, I would like to know what is this IF statement trying to do? When the script is executing and error out with line 9 which is the IF statement line.
if ]
then
TOPDIR=$(pwd)
else
TOPDIR=${0%/*}
fi
TOPDIR=${TOPDIR%/*}
the log file.
Current system time is... (15 Replies)
Hi
Script not getting executed via cron but executes successfully when executed manually. Please assist
cbspsap01(appuser) /app/scripts > cat restart.sh
#!/bin/ksh
cd /app/bin
date >>logfile.out
echo "Restart has been started....." >>logfile.out
date >>logfile.out
initfnsw -y restart... (3 Replies)
I made a shell script to execute a server in screen mode.
# start server
screen -d -m -S Test ./application
echo "Program Started Successfully"
than I'm executing it from php by
echo shell_exec('/home/script.sh');
and it is giving me this error.
"cannot make directory... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I am having a shell script which has a while loop as shown below.
while
do
sleep 60
done
I am executing this script from Informatica ETL tool command task from where we can execute UNIX commands/scripts. When i do that, i am seeing 2 processes getting started for one script... (2 Replies)
Hi every one, i am new to shell script. my people given a task to write a shell script that should execute number of shell scripts in that. in that, if any shell script is failed to execute, we have to run the main script again, but the script should start execute from the failed script only..
it... (1 Reply)
Hi every one, i am new to shell script. my people given a task to write a shell script that should execute number of shell scripts in that. in that, if any shell script is failed to execute, we have to run the main script again, but the script should start execute from the failed script only..
it... (6 Replies)
I am able to execute awk command from shell prompt. but the same command is not getting executed when written and run in a bash script
the command from bash cmd prompt.
awk '/world/{for (i=2; i<NF; i++) printf $i " "; print $NF}1' myfile >tmp$$ ; mv tmp$$ myfile
file:
# hello world my... (4 Replies)
I have bash shell script which is internally calling python script.I would like to know how long python is taking to execute.I am not allowed to do changes in python script.Please note i need to know execution time of python script which is getting executed inside shell .I need to store execution... (2 Replies)
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surfraw-update-path
SURFRAW-UPDATE-PATH(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation SURFRAW-UPDATE-PATH(1)NAME
surfraw-update-path - updates PATH in shell config files
SYNOPSIS
surfraw-update-path [-add] [-remove] [-check] [-sys] [-all] [-help] [-shell=SHELL]
DESCRIPTION
surfraw-update-path adds the surfraw elvi directory (/usr/lib/surfraw) to your PATH in your shell's config file.
Currently it supports bash, sh, csh, tcsh, ash, dash, ksh, pdksh, zsh, rc, and es
Don't forget to login again or source your login files for it to take effect.
OPTIONS -check
Checks to see if the surfraw config code is present. This is the default.
-add
Adds the surfraw config code.
-remove
Removes the surfraw config code
-sys
Updates the system-wide shell config instead of the user. Must be done as root.
-shell=SHELL
Selects the shell to configure. Defaults to the value of the $SHELL environment variable.
Currently supported shells are:
sh, ash, bash, dash, csh, tcsh, ksh, pdksh, zsh, rc, and es.
-all
Attempts to configure the startup files for all known shells
-help
Gives a usage message
RETURN VALUE -check returns 0 if the surfraw code is present in the file, 1 if it is not found, or 2 on error.
All other options return 0 on success, or 2 on error.
ENVIRONMENT
SHELL
Used to determine which shell to configure, if -shell is not given.
HOME
Used to find users config files.
ENV Used by posix-compliant shells to specify a startup rc file.
ZDOTDIR
Used to find user config files for zsh. If not set, defaults to HOME.
SEE ALSO surfraw(1), sh(1), ash(1), bash(1), dash(1), csh(1), tcsh(1), ksh(1), pdksh(1), zsh(1), rc(1), es(1)AUTHOR
Ian Beckwith <ianb@erislabs.net>
perl v5.12.4 2011-07-12 SURFRAW-UPDATE-PATH(1)