You want to default to YES, although I would personally do it the other way and force the user to enter a 'Y or y'.
However how about using the _wildcard_ '*'...
(On CygWin at the moment and don't have ksh available so using sh instead...)
Results on CygWin...
Hello,
I am writing a script in ksh(for HP Unix)where a user must answer to a question . So I want to know kow to test if the user do not answer , so if he enter "REturn".
I don't know how to test "space characters" or "empty characters
Thanks for your help (2 Replies)
Wondering what this line meant, especially the 2>&1 and ${RUN_DIR} parts:
${RUN_DIR}/<filename> 2>&1
Where <filename> is the location and name of a file. (1 Reply)
i want to add about 60 printers using a ksh script.
i am having trouble though, i am reading the input from the hosts file and using the lpadmin command to add like so:
lpadmin -p -v /dev/null -m netstandard -o dest=
i want printername and ipaddy to come from the hosts file, i am having... (1 Reply)
Hi Folks,
I would just like to know how recursion works in ksh or inside a shell in general. I created the following script, but it works(runs recursively) only for 64 times:
----------------
#! /usr/bin/ksh
displaymessage()
{
echo "displaying count: $cnt "
echo "wait for 1 second..."... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I am looking at a script, and it contains lines like:
if ]
...
This is getting me confused. Why do we need $ before (echo $* | egrep -c 'DG')? Why can't we simply have:
if ]
... i.e. no $ here before the ()...
Thanks.
J (3 Replies)
Hello,
I wanted to setup user friendly ksh command prompt, by typing first character of files or directories and then tab bring up whole word. No need to type whole file/directory/command names.
Example:
cat a file like university
just typing un and then tab bring up whole university wod.... (3 Replies)
Hi All,
This is an embarrassingly simple question and couldn't think of "keywords" to search for the answer, but how do I change my UNIX/KSH prompt to show the machine name and my "current" but not "full" directory?
For example: if the machine name is "machine" and I'm currently in... (4 Replies)
Hi all,
The below command tries to copy ".tgz" instead of "hello_test.tgz" -- It seems as if the underscore gets in the way. I tried with different ways of using quotes, with no luck, unfortunately...it's probably very simple, but may I ask how this would be done:
How would the below be... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: chatguy
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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS
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 5.10 3 Aug 1994 echo(1B)