I am trying to create a script that is going to ask the user executing this script a database name, so it can use proper DB on the server and dose other thingi want.
But my trouble is
1. How do i get a user to NOT just hit enter and move along(they need to type something otherwise it keeps prompt for value over and over)
2. Once they do enter something, i want that to match the DB List i provided earlier, i tried coming up with something but there is a big flaw
there. Lets say my DB list comes out as "test dev prod" and once they get to the input part and they just enter p only and not the actual prod,
it will give the good status and say "Ddatabase name selected was good"....it wont go down to the else part....how do i make sure it matches
one of the strings provided in the DB LIST....
Last edited by Don Cragun; 11-07-2013 at 03:52 PM..
Reason: Fix CODE tags.
how i can read a long integer from standar input and a string with as many characters as specified in the number?
i thing that i must use the read command ofcourse.... (6 Replies)
Hey everyone,
Basically, all I'm looking for is a way to regex for not a certain string. The regex I'm looking to avoid matching is:
D222
i.e. an equivalent of:
awk '!/D222/'
The problem is that I use this in the following command in a Bash script:
ls ${source_directory} | awk... (1 Reply)
I am trying to match a pattern exactly in a shell script. I have tried two methods
awk '/\<mpath${CURR_MP}\>/{print $1 $2}' multipath
perl -ne '/\bmpath${CURR_MP}\b/ and print' /var/tmp/multipath
Both these methods require that I use the escape character. I am guessing that is why... (8 Replies)
Hi,
This is most likely a dumb question but I could not find answer to it elsewhere.
I'm building a simple menu with case /esac and want to read user's input:
Please enter XYZ ; read XYZ
How do I take the value of XYZ and insert it as a variable $XYZ in file file.txt ?
I may need to... (9 Replies)
Hi
I am new to writing script and want to use a Bash Piped while-read and read from user input.
if something happens on server.log then do while loop or if something happend on user input then do while loop.
Pseudocode something like:
tail -n 3 -f server.log | while read serverline || read... (8 Replies)
Dear Friends,
I am looking for a shell script to merge input files into one file .. here is my idea:
1st paramter would be outfile file (all input files content)
read all input files and merge them to input param 1
ex: if I pass 6 file names to the script then 1st file name as output file... (4 Replies)
I need to search a string for some specific text which is no big deal using grep. My problem is when the search fails to find the text. I need to add text like "na" when my search does not match.
I have tried this command but it does not work when I put the command in a loop in a bash script:
... (12 Replies)
Hi,
I am working on a script, which requests users to enter input.
Ex: read -p "Please enter your email id:" email
I don't want users skipping this entry, this has to be mandatory.I dont want to proceed without input.
I can do a check if variable $email is empty and proceed if not.But, i... (7 Replies)
I have files named with different prefixes. From each I want to extract the first line containing a specific string, and then print that line along with the prefix.
I've tried to do this with a while loop, but instead of printing the prefix I print the first line of the file twice.
Files:... (3 Replies)
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zegrep
ZGREP(1) General Commands Manual ZGREP(1)NAME
zgrep - search possibly compressed files for a regular expression
SYNOPSIS
zgrep [ grep_options ] [ -e ] pattern filename...
DESCRIPTION
Zgrep invokes grep on compressed or gzipped files. These grep options will cause zgrep to terminate with an error code:
(-[drRzZ]|--di*|--exc*|--inc*|--rec*|--nu*). All other options specified are passed directly to grep. If no file is specified, then the
standard input is decompressed if necessary and fed to grep. Otherwise the given files are uncompressed if necessary and fed to grep.
If the GREP environment variable is set, zgrep uses it as the grep program to be invoked.
EXIT CODE
2 - An option that is not supported was specified.
AUTHOR
Charles Levert (charles@comm.polymtl.ca)
SEE ALSO grep(1), gzexe(1), gzip(1), zdiff(1), zforce(1), zmore(1), znew(1)ZGREP(1)