The bash shell provides lots of extensions above and beyond what the POSIX standards require. The ash shell doesn't provide nearly as many extensions. If you use the standard as your shell programming guide, you should get by OK. A straight translation (getting rid of bash extensions) for your script would be:
If your system allows alphanumeric characters other than characters in the Portable Filename Character Set in user names, you might want:
Alright, I am stuck here.
I have this variable that stores the word = HELLO and I have converted it it to -----
I have asked user to input one character at a time. SAy, if they enter E.
Therefore, I need to search 2nd character and input E there.
makes it -E--- (other checkings have been... (2 Replies)
Hi,
For my bash script, terminal with bash is generate an OK output and program works right.
already,
terminal with ash have "line 48: syntax error: Bad substitution" output and program don't work.
:confused: (0 Replies)
Guys
I now have a script that's working in a BASH environment, however one line doesn't appear to be working on an embedded device that has a busybox therefore ASH shell. I've googled but there's very little I can find regarding the ASH shell.
In BASH the following line works...
if ] ;... (6 Replies)
I am trying to debug something using gdbserver, after the successful/YET REALLY SLOW debug session i see that the ash shell on the the target under debug is messed up.
Probably because gdbserver tries to open the core file which is binary. How do i recover from it?
Also any ideas to speed up... (2 Replies)
Hi All,
I have a script that I wrote on a bash shell, I use it to sort files from a directory into various other directories. I have an variable set, which is an array of strings, I then check each file against the array and if it is in there the script sorts it into the correct folder.
But... (5 Replies)
I wrote Bash script and now I want to convert it to Ash. One headache is this function:
do_adduser() {
setaddprompt
_arr_add=("Add manually" "Add via TXT" "return to main menu" "exit program")
select add_action in "${_arr_add}"
do
case "$REPLY" in
1)... (7 Replies)
hello everybody,
i'm a beginner in ash and i want to convert this bash script to ash.
this script send a xml file to a nagios server :
#!/bin/bash
PROGNAME=$(basename $0)
RELEASE="Revision 0.3"
print_release() {
echo "$RELEASE"
}
print_usage() {
echo ""
echo "$PROGNAME... (6 Replies)
Hi,
I am new in bash scripting. In my work, I provide support to several users and when I connect to their computers I use the same admin and password, so I am trying to create a script that will only ask me for the IP address and then connect to the computer without having me to type the user... (5 Replies)
hi,
i would like to create a bash script that check which port in my Linux server are closed (not in use) from a specific range, port range (3000-3010).
the print output need to be only 1 port, and it will be nice if the output will be saved as a variable or in same file.
my code is:
... (2 Replies)
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echo
ECHO(1) BSD General Commands Manual ECHO(1)NAME
echo -- write arguments to the standard output
SYNOPSIS
echo [-n] [string ...]
DESCRIPTION
The echo utility writes any specified operands, separated by single blank (' ') characters and followed by a newline ('
') character, to the
standard output.
The following option is available:
-n Do not print the trailing newline character.
The end-of-options marker -- is not recognized and written literally.
The newline may also be suppressed by appending 'c' to the end of the string, as is done by iBCS2 compatible systems. Note that the -n
option as well as the effect of 'c' are implementation-defined in IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 (``POSIX.1'') as amended by Cor. 1-2002. For porta-
bility, echo should only be used if the first argument does not start with a hyphen ('-') and does not contain any backslashes (''). If
this is not sufficient, printf(1) should be used.
Most shells provide a builtin echo command which tends to differ from this utility in the treatment of options and backslashes. Consult the
builtin(1) manual page.
EXIT STATUS
The echo utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
SEE ALSO builtin(1), csh(1), printf(1), sh(1)STANDARDS
The echo utility conforms to IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 (``POSIX.1'') as amended by Cor. 1-2002.
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