You haven't said what shell you are using. If this is ksh or plain sh, then the test you are performing in your if statement is still not valid. The double [ and ] suggested are bash. You are saying something like "If the value of $DAYis not null (always true for your code) create or replace the file 15"
You have a redirector, > where you need an expression. Have a look at the manual page for test to see them all. I think you need:-
I have removed the quotes from $DAY so it is not necessarily a string to do a numeric comparison, but the issue now is that if $DAY is null or unset, the if statement is again invalid, so you need to be certain it is set to something.
Hi,
I'm trying to use sed within a shell script (bash, running ubuntu). The command works fine from the command line, but when I use it within the script, rather than creating a file with the name I've specified, it creates one that ends with a question mark '?' when you use ls, e.g.... (3 Replies)
I have a script that runs ditto for me, and occasionally (if I exit the script while ditto is running in the background) it will leave an empty file named 0 in the script's directory. The next time I run the script, it generates incorrect data because of this file. I know I can easily insert a... (1 Reply)
I have a script that runs ditto for me, and occasionally (if I exit the script while ditto is running in the background) it will leave an empty file named 0 in the script's directory. The next time I run the script, it generates incorrect data because of this file. I know I can easily insert a... (1 Reply)
Hi All,
I have a script that does daily checks on my storage environment and is run from an AIX host.
The script currently works great but I have been changing and updating bits of it to make it easier for my lesser colleagues to understand :p
However now with the updates I have made I... (1 Reply)
I'm working on a project that requires me to compress then relocate directories to a different location based on their last date of modification. After running the script I check to see if it worked, and upon unzipping the tar.gz using I created everything that should be there is. I then performed... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I am trying to create a lock file with the following code but for some reason after file is created it has
wrong name "PASP?.lock??"
Please let us know how to get rid of these '??' from file name and from where they are coming?
#!/bin/ksh... (6 Replies)
I am new to Linux. Using latest version of Ubuntu.
I want to make a script that creates a 1GB file filled with zeros using dd and then formats the file as vfat with a label of "MYFILE".
If anyone can help me it would be appreciated. (9 Replies)
I have the following script
#!/bin/sh
Usage () {
echo "Usage: $0 <config_file>"
echo "Example: ./sftp_ondemand_daily.sh /export/data/mbsesb/config/ond
emand.cfg /export/data/mbsesb/config/filename.lst"
exit 1
}
if
then
Usage
fi
... (6 Replies)
I am new to Linux. Using latest version of Ubuntu.
I want to make a script that creates a 1GB file filled with zeros using dd and then formats the file as vfat with a label of "MYFILE".
If anyone can help me it would be appreciated. (1 Reply)
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LEARN ABOUT ULTRIX
expr
expr(1) General Commands Manual expr(1)Name
expr - evaluate expressions
Syntax
expr arg...
Description
The arguments are taken as an expression. After evaluation, the result is written on the standard output. Each token of the expression is
a separate argument.
The operators and keywords are listed below. The list is in order of increasing precedence, with equal precedence operators grouped.
expr | expr Yields the first expr if it is neither null nor 0. Otherwise yields the second expr.
expr & expr Yields the first expr if neither expr is null or 0. Otherwise yields 0.
expr relop expr The relop is one of < <= = != >= > and yields 1 if the indicated comparison is true, '0' if false. The comparison is
numeric if both expr are integers, otherwise lexicographic.
expr + expr
expr - expr
Yields addition or subtraction of the arguments.
expr * expr
expr / expr
expr % expr
Yields multiplication, division, or remainder of the arguments.
expr : expr The matching operator compares the string first argument with the regular expression second argument; regular expres-
sion syntax is the same as that of The (...) pattern symbols can be used to select a portion of the first argument.
Otherwise, the matching operator yields the number of characters matched ('0' on failure).
( expr ) parentheses for grouping.
Examples
The first example adds 1 to the Shell variable a:
a=`expr $a + 1`
The second example finds the file name part (least significant part) of the pathname stored in variable a,
expr $a : '.*/(.*)' '|' $a
Note the quoted Shell metacharacters.
Diagnostics
The command returns the following exit codes:
0 The expression is neither null nor '0'.
1 The expression is null or '0'.
2 The expression is invalid.
See Alsoed(1), sh(1), test(1)expr(1)