I'm sorry things aren't working out the way you want. But I'm confused as to what exactly is going wrong. You say that:
works. You said that some unspecified command fails, but don't show us what command you used and you don't tell us how it failed. Without clearly seeing what you're trying to do and knowing how what you have tried fails, it is really hard to suggest alternatives that might work for you.
Please show us what command you are trying to get bash to run in the terminal window you are opening, tell us what output is being produced, and tell us what output you were hoping to produce.
"Is there any substituation of last command or script syntax which can be used as a user. As far I know the "last" command is being used to display information about previous logins. A member of adm group or the user adm can execute it only.
Thanks in advance for your usual help.
Ghazi (6 Replies)
Hi,
What is the actual difference between these two? Why the following code works for process substitution and fails for command substitution?
while IFS= read -r line; do echo $line; done < <(cat file)executes successfully and display the contents of the file
But,
while IFS='\n' read -r... (3 Replies)
I'm trying to get this to work and I'm not really sure how to do it.
echo $x | awk '{print $NF}' MODIFIEDThe output I'm trying to get should look like:
dir1 MODIFIED
Where dir1 will be the result of:
$x |awk '{print $NF}'I'm sure there's something I'm supposed to put around that part... (3 Replies)
I know this script is crummy, but I was just messing around.. how do I get sed's insert command to allow variable expansion to show the filename?
#!/bin/bash
filename=`echo $0`
/usr/bin/sed '/#include/ {
i\
the filename is `$filename`
}' $1
exit 0 (8 Replies)
Hey, guys!
Trying to research this is such a pain since the read command itself is a common word. Try searching "unix OR linux read command examples" or using the command substitution keyword. :eek:
So, I wanted to use a command statement similar to the following.
This is kinda taken... (2 Replies)
Hello Folks,
how to write a command on vi that allow to repeat last substitution command?
Here what I want to do :
1
2
3
1
2
3
1
2
3
:.,+2s/\n/ /And I obtain :
1 2 3
1
2
3
1 (5 Replies)
Hi,
I want to know if there's a cleaner way for assigning output of a unix command to a variable in C program .
Example : I execute dirname fname and want the output to be assigned to a variable dname . Is it possible .
I knew u can redirect the output to a file and then reread assigning... (5 Replies)
Hi,
I almost always use back quotes in scripts to assigin output of a command to a variable.
eg: file=`basename a/b/c/d/file`
year_mon=`date +%Y%m`
But the same can be achieved like:
file=$(basename a/b/c/d/file)
year_mon=$(date +%Y%m)
I would like to know if there is... (3 Replies)
I have the following code:
strfuture=abcdefghi
ver=${strfuture:${count}:1}
mj7777_ver=${ver} start_mj7777_iteration
let count=count+1
When it is executed I get bad substitution. The same if I use
ver=${strfuture:$count:1}
mj7777_ver=${ver}... (6 Replies)
Oracle Linux 5.6, 64-bit
Given the following snippet
wrkvar=`sqlplus -s / as sysdba <<EOF
set echo off feedback off head off trimsp on
select count(*) from v\$parameter
where name in ('db_file_name_convert','log_file_name_convert')
and value is not null;
EOF`
echo wrkvar=$wrkvarProduces... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: edstevens
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LEARN ABOUT LINUX
openvt
OPENVT(1) Linux 1.x OPENVT(1)NAME
openvt - start a program on a new virtual terminal (VT).
SYNOPSIS
openvt [-c vtnumber] [-s] [-u] [-l] [-v] [--] command command_options
DESCRIPTION
openvt will find the first available VT, and run on it the given command with the given command options, standard input, output and error
are directed to that terminal. The current search path ($PATH) is used to find the requested command. If no command is specified then the
environment variable $SHELL is used.
OPTIONS
-c vtnumber
Use the given VT number and not the first available. Note you must have write access to the supplied VT for this to work.
-f Force opening a VT without checking whether it is already in use.
-e Directly execute the given command, without forking. This option is meant for use in /etc/inittab. If you want to use this feature
in another context, be aware that openvt has to be a session leader in order for -e to work. See setsid(2) or setsid(1) on how to
achieve this.
-s Switch to the new VT when starting the command. The VT of the new command will be made the new current VT.
-u Figure out the owner of the current VT, and run login as that user. Suitable to be called by init. Shouldn't be used with -c or -l.
-l Make the command a login shell. A - is prepended to the name of the command to be executed.
-v Be a bit more verbose.
-w wait for command to complete. If -w and -s are used together then openvt will switch back to the controlling terminal when the com-
mand completes.
-- end of options to openvt.
NOTE
If openvt is compiled with a POSIX (GNU) getopt() and you wish to set options to the command to be run, then you must supply the end of
options -- flag before the command.
EXAMPLES
openvt can be used to start a shell on the next free VT, by using the command:
openvt bash
To start the shell as a login shell, use:
openvt -l bash
To get a long listing you must supply the -- separator:
openvt -- ls -l
HISTORY
Earlier, openvt was called open. It was written by Jon Tombs <jon@gtex02.us.es or jon@robots.ox.ac.uk>. The -w idea is from "sam".
SEE ALSO chvt(1), doshell(8), login(1)19 Jul 1996 V1.4 OPENVT(1)