1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi , I have a doubt on condition test ( ] ). Pls refer blow program. #!/bin/ksh TEMP= if ;then echo $TEMP else print 'invalid option' fi Above script's TEMP variable has no value so it gives "invalid option" as output. But I got an error before priting the string . Result : ... (2 Replies)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

i have got a file where the env command is appended 5 times. i have to now look for the username and display it in the form of 1) PWD=/home/lee.ballancore 2) USER=lee.ballancore 3) MAIL=/var/spool/mail/lee.ballancore 4) LOGNAME=lee.ballancore 5) HOME=/home/lee.ballancore 6)... (1 Reply)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi i found the following code in a date calculation script. if ((!(year%100))); then ((!(year%400))) && leap=1 else ((!(year%4))) && leap=1 fi I have not find such an use of if statement till now. As for my knowledge this is the syntax of if statement if then ... (1 Reply)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a for loop in my script as shown below. for file_path in $file_list ; do ........my code .......... ...... done Can i restrict the number of files parsing to the variable file_path as 50? That is, even if I have some 100 files in file_list, I need to take only 50 files for... (7 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I am facing issues with test condition. I had a compound condition to write for both if and while, In one of the texts i referred, with a korn shell we can write compound statements like: ], however this doesn't worked for me. For example: if ] doesn't works, but if || worked. ... (1 Reply)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Gurus, I need to read a line from a file and strip the characters from it and compare the stripped value with the value I pass to the script while executing it. Below is the code for the same. But when i execute the code, it is throwing an error. #!/bin/ksh . /home/.i_env ... (14 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, Could you please tell what is the meaning of -z in while loop condition. For example, while ; do echo "*** Enter the age " readage (3 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

hello, I would like to do exit at the end ie list all errors before exiting How to put the token exit in a variable with a loop ? Thanks function g1 () { case "$1" in (-0-0 | -0-1 | -0-2 | -0-3 | -1-0 | -1-1 | -1-2 | -1-3) # nothing, OK ! ;; (*) echo 'Fatal, $1 = '"'$1'"', Date... (9 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I was trying to write a shell script which reads csv file and sends mail in html format along with tables. Hope i have completed 1st part , but while sending mail i was trying to highlight some rows in the table based on the egrep outcome. If the string exists in line/INPUT, i am trying to... (4 Replies)

10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi All, I wrote a for loop where i am trying to delete the 1st line of each file and append then into a single file, my code looks like this but i am not sure if its right or worng . Can any one correct me if i am worng. FILES=path/to/files/date_*.csv for f in $FILES do sed '1d' >>... (7 Replies)