i need to use a case statement to do something when the user enters nothing at the prompt.
i know about the if statement and that isnt' what i'm interested in using for this. i want to use case.
heres the scenerio. a program asks a user for an input. i want to use a case statement to... (1 Reply)
Hi there,
Im having some problems with this function, I pass two arguments to the function $1 $2 (Arguments are month and date inputted by the user)
for some reason the case always fails... however in the cases defined below where it shouldnt fail the result is:
if it fails with input... (6 Replies)
Hi, I have a variable $Ctrcd which contains country names in upper case and i want to convert them into lower case. I have tried so many solutions from already existing threads but couldn't get the correct one.
Can anybody help me with this.....
Thanks a lot.. (2 Replies)
Hi, I need to change military time to regular time. I know to use case to indicate whether a.m. or p.m. as follows:
case "$hour"
in
0? | 1 ) echo a.m.;;
1 ) echo p.m.;;
* ) echo p.m.;;
esac
My question is how do I add the hour and minute... (2 Replies)
I have a package to install and the installation script which does it . The files/directories names in the script are all lower case but the actual package has everything in upper case - file names, directories . I don't want to rename directories and files in the package - it has a lot of them . ... (2 Replies)
Hi All
I have a script which extracts values from a Database (A persons name) and puts it into a variable in my script IE: $NAME
However the Value in the DB is all in uppercase and contains the users first name and last name
EG:
> echo $NAME
GRAHAM BOYLE
>
What I need is only the... (7 Replies)
Hi,
I need to carry out the back up of the data if exists...(file size not equal to zero)
i tried in this way but it is not successful....where am making the mistakes? and if possible can i use case syntax in place of "if"
#!/bin/ksh
filename=`TZ=CST+24 date +%Y%m%d`
ZERO=0... (3 Replies)
Hi all,
I wrote the following simple shell script to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. In the below program, i am not able to exit from the script
Shell Script
-----------
#!/bin/sh
bgcal() {
cal=""
echo "Enter the Option Number: \c"
read cal
if
then... (3 Replies)
I am in need of some help. I am not an advance scripter or programmer, I have novice knowledge. I cannot get a script to work as expected. The script basically does an FTP (which I have work perfectly) and writes to a log. However, I want the script to echo "Not Connected" if the FTP fails to... (2 Replies)
There is a script where we pass the parameter in lower case:
say: . ./scriptName pArameter
#!/bin/ksh
echo "`date` Entering $0 Reloading the $1 table "
mname1=$1
(code to login MYSQL Database)
Truncate table $mname1;
exit
!
Since now there is a limitaion of MYSQL that it accept... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: ambarginni
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echo
echo(1B) SunOS/BSD Compatibility Package Commands echo(1B)NAME
echo - echo arguments to standard output
SYNOPSIS
/usr/ucb/echo [-n] [argument]
DESCRIPTION
echo writes its arguments, separated by BLANKs and terminated by a NEWLINE, to the standard output.
echo is useful for producing diagnostics in command files and for sending known data into a pipe, and for displaying the contents of envi-
ronment variables.
For example, you can use echo to determine how many subdirectories below the root directory (/) is your current directory, as follows:
o echo your current-working-directory's full pathname
o pipe the output through tr to translate the path's embedded slash-characters into space-characters
o pipe that output through wc -w for a count of the names in your path.
example% /usr/bin/echo "echo $PWD | tr '/' ' ' | wc -w"
See tr(1) and wc(1) for their functionality.
The shells csh(1), ksh(1), and sh(1), each have an echo built-in command, which, by default, will have precedence, and will be invoked if
the user calls echo without a full pathname. /usr/ucb/echo and csh's echo() have an -n option, but do not understand back-slashed escape
characters. sh's echo(), ksh's echo(), and /usr/bin/echo, on the other hand, understand the black-slashed escape characters, and ksh's
echo() also understands a as the audible bell character; however, these commands do not have an -n option.
OPTIONS -n Do not add the NEWLINE to the output.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWscpu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO csh(1), echo(1), ksh(1), sh(1), tr(1), wc(1), attributes(5)NOTES
The -n option is a transition aid for BSD applications, and may not be supported in future releases.
SunOS 5.11 3 Aug 1994 echo(1B)