1. Shell Programming and Scripting

dear all How to passing the parameters or results to outside of the AWK program? anyone can help awk '{print $1}' file1 > $a ? (2 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

I am trying to make a simple script in which i take input from shell and then forward the value to nawk (BEGIN). but when i run below mention script so it give no output. echo "Enter TRUNK GROUP:" read TGR cat /omp-data/logs/5etr/080422.APX | nawk -F"|" -v P=$TGR ' BEGIN { TG=P;... (1 Reply)

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I need to set up a strange system through which an arbitrary command is sent to a number of different servers (well, actually, VPS accounts). We have a command "vpass" that "passes" a command from the root level to resident VPS accounts. Suppose I wanted each VPS to do some trivial thing, like... (3 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I had to create a new thread as the old thread had to much of confusion I have two files shashi.sh and py.py I want to pass a variable from shashi.sh to py.py. How do i achieve that ?. shashi.sh export X=12 echo "$("pwd")" echo "$X" exec python py.py "$(X)" py.py... (0 Replies)

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello, I have a file with 4 columns. An arbitrary example is shown below: a Tp 10 xyz b Tq 8 abc c Tp 99 pqr d Tp 44 rst e Tr 98 efg Based on the values in col 2 and col 3, I will execute another program. I have been running this:... (5 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

I am trying to execute a copy command via shell script. However, on occassion, 2 or more files need to copied. How do I code for the multiple arguments? Does it matter how the files are delimited? Example: I have a script to copy files from 1 dir to another called duplicate.csh In most... (1 Reply)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Can we pass perl variable to shell commands. If yes, please give some example. (2 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a script that kicks off several processes in the background and stored their pids in a variable as follows: PID_DUMP_TRAN=$PID_DUMP_TRAN" "$! so I then have a list of pids If I echo $PID_DUMP_TRAN I get back a list of pids e.g. 8210 8211 8212 However I then want to kill all these... (5 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a shell program that calls another shell program the following code works . chkTimeFormat.sh "10/9/12 17:51:19:783."|read c but when I am passing the the time in a variable like in the code below, the shell chkTimeFormat.sh is not returning proper value time="10/9/12... (9 Replies)

10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello All, May i please why my shell variable is not getting passed into awk script. #!/bin/bash -vx i="1EB07C50" /bin/awk -v ID="$i" '/ID/ {match($0,/ID/);print substr($0,RSTART,RLENGTH)}' /var/log/ScriptLogs/keys.13556.txt Thank you. (1 Reply)