The % character is magic in crontab, one needs to backslash-escape it.
Within ' ' one needs to put the \% outside, for example
must become
in order to work with crontab (and still work outside crontab).
Here is no need to escape the + and Y, so simply omit the ' ' and have \%
(And there is no need for the { } braces.)
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Hi there.
I spent too much time away from Unix, now I can't remember how to issue a simple until command in ksh :mad:
could you tell me what is wrong with the following code sample:
export v = "1"
until
do
echo 'executing repeat_until'
v = `expr $v + 1`
done
I've... (3 Replies)
can anyone tell me what`s going wrong with my if else statement?
set exam=(AAA BBB CCC)
foreach ii ($exam)
if ($ii -eq "AAA")
do
echo "PASS"
else
echo "FAILED"
done
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Hi All,
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Dears
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read name
if
then
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i have the following do command:
while IFS =: read printer drv IP port
do
echo -e "$ printer: \ n \
drv: \ t $ drv \ n \
IP: \ t $ IP \ n \
port: \ t $ port \ n \"
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Hello Gurus,
I am firing the below command :
df -g | grep -v var| awk '{ (if $4 > 90% ) print "Filesystem", $NF,"over sized";}'
But I am getting the below error:-
======
syntax error The source line is 1.
The error context is
{if ($4 > >>> 90%) <<<
awk: The... (9 Replies)
I created a shell script to record server temperature. When I manually run script it works fine with no error message. But when I create a cron job, my script fails with error message (standard_in)1:syntax error. I figured out the bc utility is causing the error message. Below is my script.
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
bcrontab
bcrontab(1) General Commands Manual bcrontab(1)NAME
bcrontab - Manage users crontab files
SYNOPSIS
bcrontab [ -u user ] file
bcrontab [ -u user ] { -l | -r | -e }
DESCRIPTION
bcrontab interfaces with the bcron-spool daemon to manage crontab files in the privileged spool directory.
OPTIONS -u user
Tell bcron-spool that we are acting on behalf of the named user. bcron-spool will only accept the username if bcrontab is running
as either root or the same user ID as the named user.
-l List the cronab crontab to standard output.
-r Remove the user's crontab.
-e Edit the current crontab.
ENVIRONMENT
VISUAL If this is set, it is used as the editor to invoke to edit a crontab.
EDITOR If $VISUAL is not set and this is, it is used as the editor to invoke to edit a crontab. If neither are set, /bin/vi is used.
BCRON_SOCKET
The path to the named socket used to communicate with bcron-spool. Defaults to /var/run/bcron-spool.
LOGNAME
USER These two variables are used, in order, to determine the user name invoking the program. One must be set if the -u option is not
used.
FILES
bcrontab tries to writes a temporary file into the current directory, and then into /tmp if that fails, in order to edit the current
crontab.
SEE ALSO bcron-spool(8), crontab(5)AUTHOR
Bruce Guenter <bruceg@em.ca>
bcrontab(1)