Thanks so much RudiC, will try to test this shortly but after a bit of googling I think I have understood what you are trying to do, please let me know if I have misunderstood any commands. I changed the continue to a break as in case of any failure in verification, processing should stop.
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An update ... have tested this a fair bit now and things are looking great, thanks again!
I had to take out the substring check for the date in the header filename as was getting 'bad subtitution' - from google perhaps I have an old version of ksh?
I switched the grep output cases (0) and (1) as 1 indicates no output (what we want).
One question: I realised my previous posted code with comments didn't work because it didn't have the \ to indicate its all still part of the same and/or ... putting \ on the end of all my comments didn't help either (guess they comment out the rest of the line) what's the best way to add comments to that section?
I am running Solaris 9 and wanted the CDE stopped when my users login. Can this be done by adding something to the .profile? Basically when they login they should be at the command line and have to start the CDE themselves.
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Hi,
I'm new to unix scripting.How can i call a script from another script.
I have a.ksh and b.ksh .I have to call b.ksh from a.ksh after it is successfully exceuted.
I tried using
#!/bin/ksh -x in a.ksh and at the end i have used /path/b.ksh
My problem is it is executing only a.ksh.it... (6 Replies)
Hi,
Is there any way like in dos to turn the echo off in a script? i have some lines popping up that i dont wish to be viewed when i am unziping a file it brings up the message updating: log.txt (deflated 72%) and extracting: log.txt i dont want these be viewed.
Andy (4 Replies)
I normally trace a script with the ksh -x <script name> and redirect strderr to file. But if you have a script like the examble below......
vi hairy
bear=`grep bear animals`
if
then
ksh more_animals
fi
If I ksh -x hairy it won't trace "more_animals" unless I put a -x in it. Is... (1 Reply)
A) produce an algorithm in pseudocode and a flowchart that gets n from the user and calculate their sum.
B) Write an algorithm in pseudocode and a flowchart that gets number x from he user and calculates x5 ( X to the power of %5). Calculate by using multiplication.
... (1 Reply)
For two straight days someone was running in.ftpd in my server (apparently looking to break in) and when I would do "top" almost every line would read "in.ftpd". I had a unix sysadmin friend of mine shut it down and then start it back up in a day and a half and all seems OK for now.
Here's what I... (1 Reply)
Anyone have a perl script that can be run via a web browser to turn ftp or telnet on and off in etc/inetd.conf ? Believe it or not but I ride a motorcycle a lot in the summer and carry a laptop in my saddlebags to connect from almost anywhere via Verizon alongside the highway. However, have too... (0 Replies)
Ih all,
i have multiples ksh scripts for crontab's unix jobs
they all have same variables declarations and some similar functions
i would have a only single script file to declare my variables, like:
var1= "aaa"
var2= "bbb"
var3= "ccc"
...
function ab { ...}
function bc { ... }... (2 Replies)
Hi
I am new to this Scripting process and would like to know How can i write a ksh script that will call other ksh scripts and write the output to a file and/or email.
For example
-------
Script ABC
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a.ksh
b.ksh
c.ksh
I need to call all three scripts execute them and... (2 Replies)
for security reasons I can not post any part of the script in question in this thread. i hope im not breaking any rules by not doing so.
but i have a perl script that i've been asked to turn on debugging on.
i didn't write this perl script and i have very very little knowledge of perl. so i... (3 Replies)