I'm new to unix scripting. How would I go about pulling the first 3 characters from a variable in ksh and storing in another variable? Thanks. (9 Replies)
Greetings all,
I'm currently making use of the $HOME/.ssh/rc file to launch an automated shell script immediately after the user has been verified through ssh.
The current problem that I'm facing now is that I am unable to use the "read" command anymore... seems like the "read" statements are... (0 Replies)
Hi
I executed the code
for file in `ls pdb*.ent`
do
new_name=`echo $file | sed 's/^pdb//;s/.ent/.txt/'`
mv $file $new_name
done
Its giving error at ' ls pdb*.ent' argument list too long
i have around 150000 entries
please help
Thank you (6 Replies)
Hi there,
I have a wapper script which passes the argument from command prompt to inner script.. It works fine as long as the argument containing single word. But when value contains multiple word with space, not working as expected. I tried my best, couldn't find the reason. Gurus, pls.... (2 Replies)
I'm trying to set a variable to the output of a command.
This is what the comand output to the display looks like:
/>hciconndump -v TOsiu
Dump of connection(s): TOsiu
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Process: A60Tsiu Connection: TOsiu... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have a generic shell script (runBatchJob.sh) to read files (batchJob) with commands in them and execute the commands by reading the batchJob file as below
./runBatchJob.sh batchJob
batchJob file
$BATCHDIR/execute_procedure.sh
$DATADIR/collectData.sh
$OTHER_ENV_VAR/doSomething.sh
... (10 Replies)
Cannot combine these two strings into one line, either as a 3rd variable or echo or printing ? Frustrating.
for i in `cat /scripts/pathList.dat`
do
OldRepo= grep Oldhostname ${i}/.svn/entries | tail -1
NewRepo= grep Oldhostname ${i}/.svn/entries | tail -1 | sed '/Oldhostname/... (41 Replies)
Hello everyone,
I need help in understanding the default value for getopts option's argument in ksh. I've written a short test script:
#!/bin/ksh
usage(){
printf "Usage: -v and -m are mandatory\n\n"
}
while getopts ":v#m:" opt; do
case $opt in
v) version="$OPTARG";;
... (1 Reply)
I have a constraint to follow organization policy. So i do not have much liberty.
ssh -i /opt/nonprod user1@hostone -t bash works while ssh -i /opt/nonprod -t bash user1@hostone fails
How can I get this to work when I am enforced to put -t bash before the user@hostname ?
Will share debug... (3 Replies)
I have googled this and found many solutions, but none of them are working for me. I am in a korn shell, most others reference bsh, maybe that is the issue? Anyway, all I am trying to do is use a variable I have declared in my main script in a remote shell I am running through ssh.
So I have a... (8 Replies)