sftp exit status will only reflect if it managed to connect to the server or not and disregards any transfer that fails. Using batch input -b script_file tends to report these errors better.
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I have about 10 config files belonging to software that runs on SCO UNIX. These files contain, amongst many other things, a path which points to the software locations. We normally have to change them manually every time the software is coppied to a new location and when you gotta do a few... (45 Replies)
I have a string that looks like this
username|field1|field2|field3
the data has a delimiter of "|"
how can i edit field1, keeping the rest of the data the same
also how can i edit field2 and 3. (3 Replies)
Hi this is my first time on this forum so sorry if I posted this to the wrong area.
I need help with the following. I have a basic FormMail cgi script I use. When I upload the script using filezilla, there is one line in the script that changes. The line should read &get_date; instead it... (2 Replies)
hi guys,
We have to implement new local (/etc/default/login) USER security policy on almost 50 stations.
so editing /etc/default/login and /etc/default/passwd will be way too long work.
Can we do the same using some script, I mean editing the above files and putting variables as RETRIES=3, ... (5 Replies)
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I'm a newbie, but I understand that there's some space difference between unix and the pc, which is why I can't write shell script on my pc but I can view it using notepad, wordpad, etc.
Is there any program I can use that will let me view the shell script and edit it without screwing up... (6 Replies)
Hello all. I am trying to make a script to edit any file by replacing a string with a string. The script should be able to be applied to any given file. for instance it should be able to replace "foo" with "bar" in the file myFile.txt. I know i need to make a back up file for this to work. I just... (2 Replies)
Gurus,
I need to write a shell script that will calculate hash value of a file, opens the file in an application for example vi editor. The application can read or modify the contents of the file. When application exists second part of my script will kick in and recalculate the hash value. File... (1 Reply)
I do have a file of the following format
file 1
>SAM
ATGCTCCTTAGCTACGTAGCAAGTAGAAAAAA
AGCGCGAGCATTGAAGCGGAGGAGAGGAGGA
TGAGATGATGACCCAGTATAAAGAGTGATGAT
like this above file. file 1 has 1000's of lines. I would like to edit this file1 using the information from file2 (see below), by... (16 Replies)
Dear Guru's
I'm using Putty and want to edit a file. I know we generally use vi editor to do it. As I'm not good in using vi editor, I want to convert the vi into something like text pad. Is there any option in Putty to do the same ? Thanks for your response.
Srini (6 Replies)