Does anyone know of a way to mimic the up arrow/down arrow type bash behavior within a shell script?
Say I have a scripted menu, and would like to be able to up arrow to bring up the last X number of lines of user input?
Thanks to anybody with a suggestion. :) (0 Replies)
Hi,
I use AIX (ksh) and Linux (bash) servers. I'm trying to do scripts to will run in both ksh and bash, and most of the time it works. But this time I don't get it in bash (I'm more familar in ksh).
The goal of my script if to read a "config file" (like "ini" file), and make various report.... (2 Replies)
The block below isn't a surprise:$ ls
file1 file2 file3
$ x=*
$ echo $x
file1 file2 file3
$ echo '$x'
$x
$ echo "$x"
*
$But I found this block a bit bewildering:$ echo $x'
>'
*
$I'm wondering why substitution wasn't performed on the $x, since it was unquoted (as far as I can tell).... (5 Replies)
I'm trying to understand if it's possible to create a set of variables that are numbered based on another variable (using eval) in a loop, and then call on it before the loop ends.
As an example I've written a script called question (The fist command is to show what is the contents of the... (2 Replies)
Hi all
Sorry for the basic question, but i am writing a shell script to get around a slightly flaky binary that ships with one of our servers. This particular utility randomly generates the correct information and could work first time or may work on the 12th or 100th attempt etc !.... (4 Replies)
Hi all
I am relatively new to linux (specifically red hat). I have installed Fedora 13 on my machine and started playing with the terminal when i found a very strange behavior when typing a command that is not found:
the terminal does not prompt me back. In other words, i am logged as root (or... (4 Replies)
run_xfs_fsr is a xfs filesystem maintenance script designed to run under cron. The system is a home theater personal computer running mythbuntu 10.10, and is accessed remotely for these tests. cron runs a script, (xfs_fsr.sh) at 02:30 that runs the subject script under BASH and sets the... (3 Replies)
I am trying to get my history in sync in multiple bash sections and things aren't working the way I expect.
Desired behavior, hitting esc-K in all bash sessions (same userid and machine) will use the same history.
Observed behavior: Esc-k shows the history of the current session, rather than... (8 Replies)
Hi,
In the code "for loop" has been used to search for files (command line arguments) in directories and then produce the result to the standard output. However, I want when no files are named on the command line, it should read a list of files from standard input and it should use the command... (7 Replies)
So I'm trying to pass certain json elements as env vars and use them later on in a script.
Sample json:
JSON='{
"Element1": "file-123456",
"Element2": "Name, of, company written in, a very weird way",
"Element3": "path/to/some/file.txt",
}'
(part of the) script:
for s... (5 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
mlpost
MLPOST(1) General Commands Manual MLPOST(1)NAME
mlpost - wrapper around OCaml and Metapost for the Mlpost library
SYNOPSIS
mlpost [options] files...
DESCRIPTION
mlpost is a program that compiles OCaml files to PostScript or PDF files using the Mlpost library.
OPTIONS -pdf Generate .mps files (default)
-mp Generate .mp files
-png Generate .png files
-ps Generate .1 files
-latex <main.tex>
Scan the LaTeX prelude
-eps Generate encapsulated postscript files
-xpdf WYSIWYG mode using xpdf remote server (the name of the remote server is "mlpost")
-v Be a bit more verbose. Otherwise nothing is printed except in case of error.
-ocamlbuild
Use ocamlbuild to compile
-native
Compile to native code
-ccopt <options>
Pass <options> to the Ocaml compiler
-execopt <options>
Pass <options> to the compiled program
-version
Print Mlpost version and exit
-no-magic
Do not parse mlpost options, do not call Metapost.dump
-depend
output dependency lines in a format suitable for the make(1) utility
-contrib <contrib-name>
compile with the specified contrib
-dumpable
output one name of dumpable file by line. So it print all the figures which will be created by the .ml file.
-get-include-compile {cmxa|cma|dir|file}
output the libraries which are needed by the library Mlpost if you want not to use the mlpost tool :
- cmxa print the needed cmxa file (opt version)
- cma print the needed cma file (byte version)
- dir print the directories needed to be include
- file print the file name inside this directory without extension
-compile-name <compile-name>
Keep the compiled version of the .ml file and name it <compile-name>.
-dont-execute
Don't execute the mlfile. So mlpost generates no figures. With this option you can check that a file compile without wasting time to
generate the figures. The options -dont-execute and -compile-name can be used in conjunction to create a program which generates
some figures according to some command line options.
-dont-clean
Don't remove intermediates files. The metapost backend use some intermediates files which are removed without this option.
-cairo Use the cairo backend instead of metapost
-t1disasm
Set the program used to decrypt PostScript Type 1 font, only with cairo (default built-in one). This option will disappear soon.
-help, --help
Display the list of options
SEE ALSO mpost(1), ocamlc(1), xpdf(1).
AUTHOR
Mlpost was written by Romain Bardou, Francois Bobot, Johannes Kanig, Stephane Lescuyer and Jean-Christophe Filliatre.
This manual page was written by Stephane Glondu <steph@glondu.net> and completed by the Mlpost authors for the Debian project (but may be
used by others).
August 2009 MLPOST(1)