I am attempting to pass a string into awk and loop through it, and then for every occurrance of a certain character perform an action. In this case, for example, echo 1 for each time character r is found in the string. Except I can't get it to work. Could someone please tell me why?
echo... (7 Replies)
#!/usr/bin/ksh
echo Please enter
while read n
do
echo $n >> datafile
done
question:
How can I enject an if statement that if the users enter 0 (zero) the program will exit?
this is what I have but not working
#!/usr/bin/ksh
echo Please enter number
while read n
do
if $n=0
then... (2 Replies)
I'm having a question about for loops. (bash)
I have the following for example:
for file in `ls *.txt`
do
read file ...
done
Now when there is a file present there is no problem, now when there is no file present I get the following output in my standard mail box : "No such... (4 Replies)
Hello I am very new to shell and I bought some books and trying to learn it. I started trying to write a script that will take a number and count it down to 1 with commas in between. This number can only be one argument. If lower than one or higher than one argument it sends an error message. ... (4 Replies)
I am writing a bash script that asks the user for input and I need it to repeat until the user selects quit.. I dont know how to write the loop for it I searched all over but i still do not get it.. if anyone could help with this it would be greatly apprciated here is my script so far:
#!... (2 Replies)
Hey guys,
a=`cat abc | wc -l`
b=`cat def | wc -l`
if $a== $b
then
echo "a"
else
echo "b"
fi
I want the if condition to retry itself , untill a==b.
I can't use goto statemt.
Please help.
Thanx in advance.
Please use next time code tags for your code and data (5 Replies)
Hi,
I tried to go through a lot of online material but could not find concrete solution.
My issues is like this :
I've got a input file like this :
<a>
<startDate>19700101000000</startDate>
<endDate>20300101000000</endDate>
</a>
... (12 Replies)
I need to match multiple values in a single column in a file:
example:
Source file:
abd,123,one
def,232,two
ghi,987,six
Target file:
12345,abcde,123
09876,zxvyr,566
56789,lmnop,232
Variable:
var1=`grep 2 sourcefile | awk '{print$1}'
essentially, echo "$var1" would read:... (2 Replies)
I have the basic command written in bash
for element in 1 2
do
if ]; then
set el = "t"
else
set el = "p"
fi
done
but i get the following error
syntax error near unexpected token `for'
` for element in 1 2'
What should i do differently? (3 Replies)
I have to create a couple of files within a directory structure.
Filename stays the same, but at the end of each file, the number appears.
Example:
File needs to be created within directory c:\temp
File Name will stay the same (testfile), but extension will increase, starting at 01 - example... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: HenkTrumpie
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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS
cal
cal(1) User Commands cal(1)NAME
cal - display a calendar
SYNOPSIS
cal [ [month] year]
DESCRIPTION
The cal utility writes a Gregorian calendar to standard output. If the year operand is specified, a calendar for that year is written. If
no operands are specified, a calendar for the current month is written.
OPERANDS
The following operands are supported:
month Specify the month to be displayed, represented as a decimal integer from 1 (January) to 12 (December). The default is the current
month.
year Specify the year for which the calendar is displayed, represented as a decimal integer from 1 to 9999. The default is the current
year.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables that affect the execution of cal: LANG, LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, LC_TIME,
LC_MESSAGES, and NLSPATH.
TZ Determine the timezone used to calculate the value of the current month.
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0 Successful completion.
>0 An error occurred.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWesu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface Stability |Standard |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO calendar(1), attributes(5), environ(5), standards(5)NOTES
An unusual calendar is printed for September 1752. That is the month 11 days were skipped to make up for lack of leap year adjustments. To
see this calendar, type:
cal 9 1752
The command cal 83 refers to the year 83, not 1983.
The year is always considered to start in January.
SunOS 5.11 1 Feb 1995 cal(1)