1. Shell Programming and Scripting

i've reworked some code from an earlier post, and it isn't working as expected i've simplified it to try and find the problem. i spent hours trying to figure out what is wrong, eventually thinking there was a bug in perl or a problem with my computer. but, i've tried it on 3 machines with the... (5 Replies)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

hi there i write one awk script file in shell programing the code is related to dd/mm/yy to month, day year format but i get an error please can anybody help me out in this problem ?????? i give my code here including error awk ` # date-month -- convert mm/dd/yy to month day,... (2 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

My script is throwing the error 'Syntax error: redirection unexpected' My line of code.. cat nsstatustest.html | sed s/<tr><td align="left">/<tr><td align="left" bgcolor="#000000"><font color="white">/ > ztmp.Ps23zp2s.2-Fpps3-wmmm0dss3 HTML tags are getting in the way but they're needed to... (3 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a file called test.dat which contains a b I have written a shell script called test.sh for i in `cat test.dat` do echo $i done When i run this script using sh test.sh I get this message - test.sh: syntax error at line 6: `end of file' unexpected What is the... (3 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have tried to implement a while loop into the code but upon running the following code i am getting the errors: ./Assigntest: line 42: syntax error near unexpected token `done' ./Assigntest: line 42: `done' The code is as follows: #!/bin/bash #Filename: Assignment Author: Luke... (9 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all, after hours of playing around with this and scouring the web I decided to ask my fellow UNIX operators as I can't wrap my head around this. First off, I want to parse an input file with tabs (I could pull this off easily with different delimiters) but I was trying to make nicer... (2 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello forum, I hope my problem is easy to solve for someone in here! My main task is to copy a large amount of imap-accounts from one server to another. There is a tool (Perl) called imapsync which does the job exellent. Unfortunately I'm only able to run it on one account at a time. After... (3 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, I have another problem with my script. Please accept my apologies, but I am really nooby in sh scripts. I am writing it for first time. My script: returned=`tail -50 SapLogs.log | grep -i "Error"` echo $returned if ; then echo "There is no errors in the logs" fi And after... (10 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

My requirement is to search for current date-1 .log files in /usr/sas/sas_config/Lev1/SASApp/StoredProcessServer/Logs folder and write the file name to filenames.txt When I ran the script below, I got error as syntax error near unexpected token `do I'm not sure what is wrong in my code. I... (11 Replies)