1. Shell Programming and Scripting

hey peeps ive made my first script, its for my work made in HP-UX, kshell anyways the script copies 3 files from a spider system to the floppydrive of my collegeau, I want to check if there is a floppy in the drive otherwise the script just runs forever and I don't have that time a day... (1 Reply)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Basic: find . -type f -name “*.txt” -print | awk '{gsub("Ontem", "AntesdeOntem", $0); print > FILENAME}' *.txt The idea is in folder /home/myapontamentos I have some files and i need to change in all them the word "ontem" to "antesdeontem". But bigger files are cut (size i mean)... (4 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have the following code. I want to remove the --sort=num/num/... and am using grep to exclude it as shown below: I have a bit of problem figuring out the use of - at the front echo "--sort=4/5/6" | grep -ivE '-((sort|group)=+/+(/+)*)$' Now suppose I want to remove --quiet I can... (7 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have the following line of code that works wonders. I just don't completely understand it as I am just starting to learn regex. Can you help me understand exactly what is happening here? find . -type f | grep -v '^\.$' | sed 's!\.\/!!' (4 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

i have this line of code that looks for the same file if it is currently running and returns the count. `ps -eaf -o args | grep -i sfs_pcard_load_file.ksh | grep -v grep | wc -l` basically it is assigned to a variable ISRUNNING=`ps -eaf -o args | grep -i sfs_pcard_load_file.ksh |... (6 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have seen this code in a few places and my understanding is they are using it to determine what app called the script. I have a script that is called by two different applications and what it to do one thing when called by one and something else when called by the other. How do I determine... (1 Reply)