Counting the number of lines isn't much of a check that the files are really the same - use an actual checksum (e.g. cksum or md5sum).
Something like:
should exit with 0 if the checksums are identical.
(<(stuff) is bash process substitution, but you could use temporary files instead. Feeding cksum from stdin rather than a file means you don't need to care what the filename is.)
Hi. In my KSH script I'm running a command on a remote server. I want to know how I can test to see if the remote server is available (accessible) prior to running the command. Any ideas?
My command looks like:
`ssh $USER@$TARGET_SERVER_DNS ls -l $REMOTE_FOLDER `
This check should be... (1 Reply)
Hi. In my KSH script I'm running a command on a remote server. I want to know how I can test to see if the remote server is available (accessible) prior to running the command. Any ideas?
My command looks like:
`ssh $USER@$TARGET_SERVER_DNS ls -l $REMOTE_FOLDER `
This check should be... (4 Replies)
Hi Everyone!
This is what I need to do...
I am deploying some directories over to a windows server 2000/3 box from my solaris10 box and I need to make sure the directories exist.
The only form of connection I have to work with is SSH
Currently, my script deploys the directories over... (13 Replies)
Hello, I would appreciate if any one can help me on this.
The below script start running at 12:30AM. Every 5 min, i go and check the remote site. If i see filewatch.txt over there, then i need to call another shell script and load the data into database. If i don't see that file, then i have to... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I need to copy few files from remote server to local server.
I write a shell script to connect to the remote server using ftp and go to that path. Now i need to copy those files in the remote directory to my local server with the timestamp of all those files shouldnt be changed.
... (5 Replies)
There is a process which copy files form unix a to unix b
I would like to check whether all files copied from a to b or not ,and list which are the missing files.
Is there a command to check like that (3 Replies)
Hi there,
I have a problem in my script,
I need to check whether file exists in remote server or not,
if the file exists, then stop copy
else copy the file to the server..
my code is something like this
while read $server
do
if ssh $server "cd $directory_name; if ; then echo "Error:... (2 Replies)
Hi All
I need to transfer a file from a UNIX server to a windows server.
I saw that it is possible to do this using scp command by looking at the forum listed below:
... (2 Replies)
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is_string
IS_STRING(3) 1 IS_STRING(3)is_string - Find whether the type of a variable is stringSYNOPSIS
bool is_string (mixed $var)
DESCRIPTION
Finds whether the type given variable is string.
PARAMETERS
o $var
- The variable being evaluated.
RETURN VALUES
Returns TRUE if $var is of type string, FALSE otherwise.
EXAMPLES
Example #1
is_string(3) example
<?php
$values = array(false, true, null, 'abc', '23', 23, '23.5', 23.5, '', ' ', '0', 0);
foreach ($values as $value) {
echo "is_string(";
var_export($value);
echo ") = ";
echo var_dump(is_string($value));
}
?>
The above example will output:
is_string(false) = bool(false)
is_string(true) = bool(false)
is_string(NULL) = bool(false)
is_string('abc') = bool(true)
is_string('23') = bool(true)
is_string(23) = bool(false)
is_string('23.5') = bool(true)
is_string(23.5) = bool(false)
is_string('') = bool(true)
is_string(' ') = bool(true)
is_string('0') = bool(true)
is_string(0) = bool(false)
SEE ALSO is_float(3), is_int(3), is_bool(3), is_object(3), is_array(3).
PHP Documentation Group IS_STRING(3)