Ok... so in general we have an old SysV vs. Berkley... or perhaps a ksh vs. Berkley-ism.
I too was somewhat displeased with the Linux choice of a BSD-ish like echo since it tried to be more POSIX which made is smell more SysV like (Linux is sort of its own blend).
So the niceness of echo "first line\nsecond line" that you had in HPUX, Solaris, etc.. well, you had to do echo -e "first line\nsecond line" in Linux. Now... with more contemporary versions of ksh, they've added a "do nothing" option of -e, which means for any system running ksh93 (maybe even something less) but not not a really old ksh, you could use -e to make scripts seemingly portable.
But... maybe you plan to run ksh93 on your Linux host.
Then, you can run the following:
Code:
$ builtin getconf
$ getconf UNIVERSE = att
$ echo "hello\n\nthere"
hello
there
$
Sadly, even getconf syntax has changed over the years, for the command getconf UNIVERSE = att, you may have to use a minus instead of an equals....
Now... with regards to that latter solution, if you whole system runs in ksh and uses a non-systemd SysV style init, you could put that stuff there, but of course I can pretty much guarantee you that your distro producers didn't have portability in mind when they wrote their init scripts. So... it will likely render your system useless to try change away from bash.
There's like a KSHENV var that might be able to pull such things in for any ksh script..... it's been too long.. anyhow, might get you pointed in the right direction.
On Linux I could use the `watch` command to loop a command X times. Is there a similar command on AIX? If not, is there a way to write a loop on the command line to do this?
Linux: watch -d -n 60 'db2 list applications show detail | grep Connect | wc -l'
AIX: ??? (2 Replies)
How to convert this linux command to Unix AIX?
I have tried this command and work in CentOS:
tail --line=0 --retry -f --follow=name --max-unchanged-stats=1 logFile.log
But in AIX, the tail haven't "--retry" "--follow=name" option.
Thanks in advance. (1 Reply)
Sir ,
Can any body explain the difference between linux , Unix and AIx on command Reference all the command on AIx and unix is same or not
please reply (2 Replies)
Hello all
the su with -l option is running normal with linux but when i try to run it on unix AIX 5.2.7 it's not working with -l option
any help (6 Replies)
Hi,
I am facing one problem only with mv command not with cp command. I have a test program
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <sys/mount.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <errno.h>
int sync_file(char *file)
{
FILE *fp=NULL;... (6 Replies)
Hi,
Script :
#!/usr/bin/ksh
echo "\n\t\t\t\t Enter your Name : \c"
read name
##############################
I ran the script in LINUX
Enter your Name : abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
I ran the script in AIX
Enter your Name : opqrstuvwxyz <
I'm not able to see the... (2 Replies)
To list file permission/access right in octal format, linux has a command 'stat'. For example, we can use the followin -
stat -c %a `find . -type f
Is there any equivalent command in AIX and HP-UX to give the same result as linux 'stat' command?
Please advice. (3 Replies)
I'm having a problem regarding the encoding of my files in Linux and AIX.
I have a file which can be viewed both in Linux and AIX (via NetApp mount). When I checked the encoding, they have difference.
In Linux, the file is encoded as ISO-8859 text. (checked by using "file" command).... (1 Reply)
Hi All,
The scripts developed in AIX can be executed in Red Hat Linux too? Because, we are migrating OS from AIX to LINUX.
Will there be any differences in commands?
Thanks in advance!!!
Regards,
U (2 Replies)
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shcomp
SHCOMP(1) User Environment Utilities SHCOMP(1)NAME
shcomp - compile a ksh93 shell script
SYNOPSIS
shcomp [ options ] [infile] [outfile]]
ORIGIN OF THIS MAN PAGE
This man page was written by Christophe Martin <Schplurtz@free.fr> for the Debian GNU/Linux system. It is based on "shcomp --man" output.
DESCRIPTION
Unless -D is specified, shcomp takes a shell script, infile, and creates a binary format file, outfile, that ksh93 can read and execute
with the same effect as the original script.
Since aliases are processed as the script is read, alias definitions whose value requires variable expansion will not work correctly.
If -D is specified, all double quoted strings that are preceded by $ are output. These are the messages that need to be translated to
locale specific versions for internationalization.
If outfile is omitted, then the results will be written to standard output. If infile is also omitted, the shell script will be read from
standard input.
OPTIONS -D, --dictionary
Generate a list of strings that need to be placed in a message catalog for internationalization.
-n, --noexec
Displays warning messages for obsolete or non-conforming constructs.
-v, --verbose
Displays input from infile onto standard error as it reads it.
--man Displays this man page on standard error and exits.
--help Shows a short help message and exits.
EXIT STATUS
0 Successful completion.
>0 An error occurred.
DEBIAN WARNING
On a Debian GNU/Linux system, more than one package may provide ksh. the output of shcomp can only be used by ksh93. Any other ksh will be
unable to run the compiled script.
EXAMPLE
( echo '#! /bin/ksh93' ; shcomp myscript ) > myscript.bin &&
chmod 755 myscript.bin
./myscript.bin
SEE ALSO ksh(1)IMPLEMENTATION
version shcomp (AT&T Labs Research) 2003-03-02
author David Korn <dgk@research.att.com>
copyright Copyright (c) 1982-2005 AT&T Corp.
license http://www.opensource.org/licenses/cpl1.0.txt
KSH93 Fri Jun 3 2005 SHCOMP(1)
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