If you're using sed to get rid of the minus signs, the date string must be in a file. Try:
Note that you don't need to save and restore the value of IFS if you just set its value to be other than the default only for the call to read.
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Another newbie to Unix scripting Q..
How do you assign a value resulting from a command, such as awk, to a variable.
I am currently trying:-
$awk '{print $1}' file1 > variable1
with no change to $variable1.
The line:
$awk '{print $1}' file1
does print the first line of the... (3 Replies)
Hi
In my shell script, I'm trying to find the line count of a file and assign it to a variable.
LINE_COUNT=$(wc -l $FILE_NAME)
But when i display LINE_COUNT, i'm getting the linecount concatenated with the file name. I want only the number. How can i get the line count alone ? Someone... (2 Replies)
hi all,
in ksh, how do i assign the output of a find command to a variable, e.g
am trying something like this :
totalNoFiles=$(print find ./ -name "SystemOut*.log");
but when i echo $totalNoFiles it displays
find ./ -name "SystemOut*.log"
instead of the total number of... (2 Replies)
can we make a global variable and store character values and add other values to that variable ?? for example
a="hello, John"
and can we add value ". How are you? so
a can have
"hello, John. How are you?"
can someone help me?? (2 Replies)
Hi folks.
I have this variable called FirstIN that contains something like this: 001,002,003,004...
I am trying to assign the content of this variable into ModifiedIN but with the following format : 001 002 003 004...(changing the commas for spaces)
I thought about using sed but i am not... (17 Replies)
my script is some thing like this
i11="{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,}"
echo "enter value"
read value ..............suppose i11
x="$value"
echo "$($value)" .............the echo should be {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,}
but its showing "i11" only.
plz help me out to get desired... (10 Replies)
Hi,
I have a list of files in a directory. Each file has a .txt and a .log extension i.e. file.txt & file.log, file1.txt & file1.log etc. The file with the .log extension may not always exist alongside the file with the .txt extension.
I need to copy the .txt file if there is a corresponding... (6 Replies)
Unable to get the value to a variable.
set -x
cd $HOME
echo "Enter the server name"
read a
echo $a
i=4
j=1
k = ps -ef | awk '/server1/{ print $4 }' | tail -$i | head -$j`
echo $k
When I do the same in command line it works, however the same does not work when I provide that in the... (1 Reply)
I have a date column as 06302015 but I need to have variable which extracts 063015.
Am trying something like below but it is not assigning
Please let me know if am missing something. Thanks in advance.
################################
#!/usr/bin/ksh
DT=06302015
... (7 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT FREEBSD
atf-sh
ATF-SH(1) BSD General Commands Manual ATF-SH(1)NAME
atf-sh [-s shell] -- interpreter for shell-based test programs
SYNOPSIS
atf-sh script
DESCRIPTION
atf-sh is an interpreter that runs the test program given in script after loading the atf-sh(3) library.
atf-sh is not a real interpreter though: it is just a wrapper around the system-wide shell defined by ATF_SHELL. atf-sh executes the inter-
preter, loads the atf-sh(3) library and then runs the script. You must consider atf-sh to be a POSIX shell by default and thus should not
use any non-standard extensions.
The following options are available:
-s shell Specifies the shell to use instead of the value provided by ATF_SHELL.
ENVIRONMENT
ATF_LIBEXECDIR Overrides the builtin directory where atf-sh is located. Should not be overridden other than for testing purposes.
ATF_PKGDATADIR Overrides the builtin directory where libatf-sh.subr is located. Should not be overridden other than for testing purposes.
ATF_SHELL Path to the system shell to be used in the generated scripts. Scripts must not rely on this variable being set to select a
specific interpreter.
EXAMPLES
Scripts using atf-sh(3) should start with:
#! /usr/bin/env atf-sh
Alternatively, if you want to explicitly choose a shell interpreter, you cannot rely on env(1) to find atf-sh. Instead, you have to hardcode
the path to atf-sh in the script and then use the -s option afterwards as a single parameter:
#! /path/to/bin/atf-sh -s/bin/bash
ENVIRONMENT
ATF_SHELL Path to the system shell to be used in the generated scripts.
SEE ALSO atf-sh(3)BSD September 27, 2014 BSD