I think you are tackling this from the wrong angle. The first step is to identify what you really want to do:
Quote:
i am sending one command to my machine to create 3 names.
You might want to change that first. Instead of
you might want to first create a process which creates ONE user and then call that 3 times. Your "send a command to create 3 names" will become "send a command to create 1 name three times":
This has two advantages: first, "command" can be any arbitrarily complex code, like a shell function. Into this you could pack everything you want to do whenever one such "command" is executed. For instance:
If you want to stop execution now it would be simple to add that - inside the command()-function:
Notice that the main-part of the script stays the same, you have encapsulated the different parts.
Guys any tips on printing a certain error message to stderr and exiting should a command fail within a ksh script? I'm trying to null some output files.
Touch isn't suitable as i need to null them.
print "" > file isn't suitable as i need to check elsehere for if they are 0bytes or not.
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Hi All,
I have developed below script for FTP a file from unix machine to another machine.
ftpToABC ()
{
USER='xyz'
PASSWD='abc'
echo "open xx.yy.zbx.aaa
user $USER $PASSWD
binary
echo "put $1 abc.txt" >> /home/tmp/ftp.$$
echo "quit" >> /home/tmp/ftp.$$
ftp -ivn <... (3 Replies)
Hi everyone,
when executing this command in unix:
echo "WM7 Fatal Alerts:", $(cat query1.txt) > a.csvIt works fine, but running this command in a shell script gives an error saying that there's a syntax error.
here is content of my script:
tdbsrvr$ vi hc.sh
"hc.sh" 22 lines, 509... (4 Replies)
Hello All
My req is to store the exit status of a command in shell variable
I want to check whether the file has header or not
The header will contain the string
DATA_ACQ_CYC_CNTL_ID
So I am running the command
head -1 $i | grep DATA_ACQ_CYC_CNTL_ID
Now I have to check if... (6 Replies)
Hi,
Can anyone help me how to exit a shell script if a unix command inside does not return any value for 10 seconds?
The scenarios is like this.
I want to login to a application using shell script where the connection string is mentioned.but suppose this connection string is not... (10 Replies)
Hi,
I am writing shell script to automate few use cases for CLI interface. We have CLI interface which has bunch of commands. I am trying to execute one of the commands 'exit' as part of automation to exit from CLI object (not from shell script) in my shell script.
My intension is to execute... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I am looking for a generic find command that works on both Linux and Solaris.
I have the below command that works fine on Linux but fails on solaris.find /web/config -type f '(' -name '*.txt' -or -name '*.xml' -name '*.pro' ')' Fails on SunOS mysolaris 5.10 Generic_150400-61 sun4v sparc... (1 Reply)
I wish to replace "\\n" with a single white space.
The below does the job on command-line:
$ echo '/fin/app/scripts\\n/fin/app/01/sql' | sed -e 's#\\\\n# #g';
/fin/app/scripts /fin/app/01/sql
However, when i have the same code to a shell script it is not able to get me the same output:... (8 Replies)