How can I use the value of an argument as a filename? Example:
The argument for a process is 999. I would like the output of the process to be placed in a file called 999. I have tried using $$1, but that only assigns a unigue number.
thanks
JP (1 Reply)
Hi,
Can someone please explain to me how I can get a function to recognize a file given as an argument to a script.
Suppose the script has the argument as follows:
sh script file
and the function is as follows:
function display_file () {
cat $1
}
and it s then called
#main program... (1 Reply)
If I run the following command remotely after ssh than it works fine
su - oracle -c "/oracle/product/102/db/bin/dbshut"
But If I run the following command it doesn't work
su - oracle -c "/oracle/product/102/db/bin/lsnrctl stop"
Because I think there is a space is present between lsnrctl and... (1 Reply)
How can I pass $var_find variable as argment to find command?
test.sh
var_find=' \( -name "*.xml" -o -name "*.jsp" \) '
echo "${var_find}"
find . -type f ${var_find} -print
# Below statement works fine.. I want to replace this with the above..
#find . \( -name "*.xml" -o -name... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I need to pass the argument in my shell script as db_ubackup20111015*.log
Scenario:
I have backup log file location in /home/backup directory (more than 40 days). I need to check the log file of the latest one (tail .
a. How I can retrieve the latest value other than passing... (1 Reply)
Can someone let me know how could I achieve this
In one of per script I am calling the shell script but I need to so one thing that is one shell script call I need to pass pne argument.In below code I am calling my ftp script but here I want to pass one argument so how could I do this (e.g:... (5 Replies)
I need to write a shell script, when I run that script I should pass those arguments if not, then script should not run and pass the error message like
invalid option - - should pass the argument.
and Exit from the script
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I need to write a shell script, when I run that script I should pass those arguments if not, then script should not run and pass the error message like
invalid option - - should pass the argument.
and Exit from the script (8 Replies)
Hi all,
$ echo $SHELL
/bin/bash
Requirement - How to pass oracle sql script as argument to unix shell script?
$ ./output.sh users.sql
Below are the shell scripts and the oracle sql file in the same folder.
Shell Script
$ cat output.sh
#!/bin/bash
.... (7 Replies)
I'm looking to write a script that takes a .txt filename as an argument, reads the file line by line, and passes each line to a command. For example, it runs command --option "LINE 1", then command --option "LINE 2", etc. I am fetching object files from a library file, I have all the object file... (2 Replies)