Jim, I don't want to start a long discussion about personal likes/dislikes, but let me state I would write it like this
The cryptic [ $! -eq 0 ] && OK='pass' || OK='fail' does unnecessary evaluation of OK='pass', and would fail if such an expression would have a non-zero exit status. In comparison, if-then-else-fi is easy to understand and risk-free.
Hey all. I have a long list of IP addresses I want to ping. The IP's are located in a flat file "ping_info.dat".
I was wondering what the best way to go about this would be. Can someone help me out? (2 Replies)
Hi,
How to ping an ip from an unix machine. Can you please let me know the exact command. I used and i got the below error
ping 171.18.17.2
bash: ping: command not found
Thanks n regards
Ammu (1 Reply)
Hello members,
I have some doubts on how to write a script that can reports success / failure of a batch job ?
1. Run a batch job:
2. Wait and search for a particular string in the Log file:
tail -f log01*.txt | egrep -v "^SUCCESSFUL"
echo "continue with the other tasks"
... (1 Reply)
Keep in mind that I haven't done Perl scripting for a LONG time, so I'm quite rusty.
This is what I would like to do:
- using fork, create 3 or 4 processes to read 3 or 4 different text documents containing server names or IP addresses
- in each of those processes, Perl will ping each of those... (7 Replies)
how can you ping a domain and store the ip?
like given a url in a variable $url
how can i ping it?
also how can i find the local server's ip address on a cpanel server?
(i have multiple servers and didnt want to hard code it in)
(basically i want to check the domain accounts on the server,... (11 Replies)
Hi all!!
Im using ksh and my OS is Linux.
I want to run a script for ten minutes, starting from my current system time.
How to acheive this?
Any help appreciated.
Thanks in advance (5 Replies)
Hi,
I am running a schedular script which will check for a specific time and do the job. I wanted to run this continuously. Meaning even after the if condition is true and it executes the job, it should start running again non stop.
I am using below script
#!/bin/sh
start:
while true
do... (10 Replies)
Hi,
I want to write a script which continuously checking status of a script running in background by nohup command. And if same script is not running then immediately start the script...please help..
i am using below command to run script
nohup system_traps.sh &
but in some... (9 Replies)
I need to ping websites and I need to see which one has the highest delay.
My problem is I need to extract the name Facebook and the time=74.0 ms using awk. I need help doing this please...
PING facebook.com (173.252.90.36) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from... (5 Replies)
Hi
I have written below log monitoring script to egrep multiple words and redirect the output to a text file and its working fine but I want to add some more below given functionality to it, which is very advance and im not very good in it, so please help if you can :)
I am egrepping all the... (1 Reply)
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LEARN ABOUT PHP
date_sunset
DATE_SUNSET(3) 1 DATE_SUNSET(3)date_sunset - Returns time of sunset for a given day and locationSYNOPSIS
mixed date_sunset (int $timestamp, [int $format = SUNFUNCS_RET_STRING], [float $latitude = ini_get("date.default_latitude")], [float
$longitude = ini_get("date.default_longitude")], [float $zenith = ini_get("date.sunset_zenith")], [float $gmt_offset])
DESCRIPTION date_sunset(3) returns the sunset time for a given day (specified as a $timestamp) and location.
PARAMETERS
o $timestamp
- The $timestamp of the day from which the sunset time is taken.
o $format
-
$format constants
+-----------------------+-------------------------------------------+
| constant | |
| | |
| | description |
| | |
| | example |
| | |
+-----------------------+-------------------------------------------+
| SUNFUNCS_RET_STRING | |
| | |
| | returns the result as string |
| | |
| | 16:46 |
| | |
| SUNFUNCS_RET_DOUBLE | |
| | |
| | returns the result as float |
| | |
| | 16.78243132 |
| | |
|SUNFUNCS_RET_TIMESTAMP | |
| | |
| | returns the result as integer (timestamp) |
| | |
| | 1095034606 |
| | |
+-----------------------+-------------------------------------------+
o $latitude
- Defaults to North, pass in a negative value for South. See also: date.default_latitude
o $longitude
- Defaults to East, pass in a negative value for West. See also: date.default_longitude
o $zenith
- Default: date.sunset_zenith
o $gmtoffset
- Specified in hours.
ERRORS /EXCEPTIONS
Every call to a date/time function will generate a E_NOTICE if the time zone is not valid, and/or a E_STRICT or E_WARNING message if using
the system settings or the $TZ environment variable. See also date_default_timezone_set(3)CHANGELOG
+--------+---------------------------------------------------+
|Version | |
| | |
| | Description |
| | |
+--------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 5.1.0 | |
| | |
| | Now issues the E_STRICT and E_NOTICE time zone |
| | errors. |
| | |
+--------+---------------------------------------------------+
RETURN VALUES
Returns the sunset time in a specified $format on success or FALSE on failure.
EXAMPLES
Example #1
date_sunset(3) example
<?php
/* calculate the sunset time for Lisbon, Portugal
Latitude: 38.4 North
Longitude: 9 West
Zenith ~= 90
offset: +1 GMT
*/
echo date("D M d Y"). ', sunset time : ' .date_sunset(time(), SUNFUNCS_RET_STRING, 38.4, -9, 90, 1);
?>
The above example will output something similar to:
Mon Dec 20 2004, sunset time : 18:13
SEE ALSO date_sunrise(3).
PHP Documentation Group DATE_SUNSET(3)