You do not need to put date, ls, or any other COMMAND to put in quotes when executed in a terminal.
Just like this is enough:
To actualy work with them, it is suggest to echo them when encapsuled in a XY (what is this called again?).
As in:
Because if you just call:
It will fail, because its result is not a COMMAND.
Furthermore (but not relevant to the post), F14 is way end of life, 21 is coming out soon.
Hope this helps
Thanks that solved my problem. Don't know what you mean by F14 though.
Hi
I'm writing a script and I've put #!/bin/bash as the first line so that I can just type my scripts name 'whodate' at PS1 instead of ./whodate. This has suddenly stopped working for me. It used to be the case that I could start a script with #!/bin/bash and it would work, but for this script... (2 Replies)
i have this code for a simple if loop:
#!/bin/bash
array="1 2 3 4 5"
array2="5 6 7 8 9"
if } -gt ${array} ]; then
echo "${array2} is greater than ${array}!!"
fi
the error is
./script8: line 9: [: too many arguments
./script8: line 9: [: too many arguments
./script8: line 9: [:... (10 Replies)
So I need a script that does the following:
If a certain user is logged in
Run `command`
Else
Echo “incorrect user”
This is my first stab...which doesn't work:
#!/bin/bash
X="user=`ls -l /dev/console | cut -d " " -f 4`"
Y="foobar"
echo $X
echo $Y (4 Replies)
Hi Friends,
I am presently migrating shell scripts writter in KSH to SH.I am stuck at this place and i am not able to find a work around:-
Let the script name is x.sh
Below are some of the codes in it...
export abc=hello
export abc=hi
export abc=how
When i am trying to compile the script ... (6 Replies)
Hello all,
I'm trying to substract 1 minute from the current date and take the hour and minute (for filename purpose).
1) If I want hour an minute from current time I can use:
timetmp=$(date +"%H:%M")
2) To substract 1 minute from current time I can use:
timetmp=$(date --date "$dte -1... (8 Replies)
Hi friends,
I have two files - input and commands
I want to read the input and replace a value in it with the contents in commands.
My script is like this.
Instead of printing the value in the commands file, it is simply printing $cmd in the output file.
Any pointers are highly... (1 Reply)
Hi, I am currently working on a Bash shell script that
- Downloads a webpage, in this case youtube.com
- Extracts Number of views, Extracts Title of video, Extracts User who made it, and lastly Duration. Then I have to Out put this into columns.
To me this sounds like crazyness. I'm very new... (6 Replies)
How to run several bash commands put in bash command line without needing and requiring a script file.
Because I'm actually a windows guy and new here so for illustration is sort of :
$ bash "echo ${PATH} & echo have a nice day!"
will do output, for example:... (4 Replies)
Ahoy friends.
Currently i got a bash script running to manage my minecraft servers.
All of them are stored in /home/minecraft_servers directory.
Using my script im able to start a server (e.g. ./minecraft start ftb_continuum) because server name and server name are the same.(e.g.... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Knogle
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LEARN ABOUT REDHAT
openvt
OPENVT(1) Linux 1.x OPENVT(1)NAME
openvt - start a program on a new virtual terminal (VT).
SYNOPSIS
openvt [-c vtnumber] [-s] [-u] [-l] [-v] [--] command command_options
DESCRIPTION
openvt will find the first available VT, and run on it the given command with the given command options, standard input, output and error
are directed to that terminal. The current search path ($PATH) is used to find the requested command. If no command is specified then the
environment variable $SHELL is used.
OPTIONS
-c vtnumber
Use the given VT number and not the first available. Note you must have write access to the supplied VT for this to work.
-s Switch to the new VT when starting the command. The VT of the new command will be made the new current VT.
-u Figure out the owner of the current VT, and run login as that user. Suitable to be called by init. Shouldn't be used with -c or -l.
-l Make the command a login shell. A - is prepended to the name of the command to be executed.
-v Be a bit more verbose.
-w wait for command to complete. If -w and -s are used together then openvt will switch back to the controlling terminal when the com-
mand completes.
-- end of options to openvt.
NOTE
If openvt is compiled with a POSIX (GNU) getopt() and you wish to set options to the command to be run, then you must supply the end of
options -- flag before the command.
EXAMPLES
openvt can be used to start a shell on the next free VT, by using the command:
openvt bash
To start the shell as a login shell, use:
openvt -l bash
To get a long listing you must supply the -- separator:
openvt -- ls -l
HISTORY
Earlier, openvt was called open. It was written by Jon Tombs <jon@gtex02.us.es or jon@robots.ox.ac.uk>. The -w idea is from "sam".
SEE ALSO chvt(1), doshell(8), login(1)19 Jul 1996 V1.4 OPENVT(1)