The first parameter of printf is a format parameter where certain characters have special meanings. Therefore it is best to not use data as the first parameter. So instead of
Use
Note that the double quotes still allow things like variable expansion (for example $var).
If you do not want that then use single quotes..
That said a better option would be to use a so-called "here document"
Where EOF is an arbitrary word where the second occurrence needs to be on a line containing only that word.
If you want to avoid variable expansion, use quotes (single or double) around the first occurrence of the arbitrary word :
Hi, I need help again. When I run this shell script, it only runs the unld_date.sql piece and exits. How can I structure this to run all the way to the end? When I don't have the unld_date.sql piece in here, everything runs fine from the date compare piece all the way to the end. Thanks in... (5 Replies)
I have a Shell Script which runs a PLSQL stored proc. Here is the summary:
- create LOCK file
- check if LOCK exist, if exists, abort.
- run Stored Proc and insert/update DB
- remove LOCK file
The problem is in random cases, some records are inserted 2x (with exactly the same data,date... (1 Reply)
Hello All,
After login to the server we are explicitly calling /usr/local/bin/bash to activate bash shell properly.
But since commands are not executing properly so I think it is not initialized well. I am facing following problems:
1) If I want to have a look on a particular file using tail... (6 Replies)
hi i am using printf in a script and it is not printing negative values..i have to use printf to get rid of the newline..here is my code:
fin=`echo $a - $b | bc`
printf "${fin}," >> test
these statements are in a loop. here is what i get when i try to subtract 4 from 8:
./scr1: line... (2 Replies)
I am running the following ealth checks on my server
there are two databases in my server . MODEL1 and MODEL2
i connect with the first database as
sqlplus model1/password
Then i exceute a query
select x from table (4 Replies)
Hi
This is my bash script.i am calling validation.sql and passing a value to it using ${flds}.
i want the cnt variable in plsql script to be passed to unix.
LOADREC=`sqlplus -s $ORACLE_USR <<-EOF
spool $ORACLE_LOG_FILE;
echo "barani"
@validation.sql #calling the plsql script
${flds}... (6 Replies)
i have written small script as follows:
name="hi hello"
printf "%-20s" $name
This gives me strange output. -20s format is applied on both word of string. i.e it displays both word hi and hello in space of 20 length.
I want to display entire string "hi hello" in length of 20 space.
plz... (2 Replies)
Hi ALL,
I am using SunOS 5.9 and KSH(bin/ksh)
The problem am facing is
error message diaplyed on screen
printf: 12099415.79 not completely converted
printf: + expected numeric value
printf: 11898578.29 not completely converted
When i try printing with
The output is... (6 Replies)
I'm reading about debugging aids in bash and have come across the set command. It says in my little book that an addition to typing
set
you can also use them "on the command line when running a script..." and it lists this in a small table:
set -o option Command Line... (5 Replies)
A big hello to everyone tagged to this site of knowledge . This is the first post of mine and I am looking forward to an enjoyable stint in this forum where I get to know a lot of new ideas and share whatever knowledge (its not much though :) ) I have acquired throughout my career so far with... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: kumarjt
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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS
shells
shells(4) File Formats shells(4)NAME
shells - shell database
SYNOPSIS
/etc/shells
DESCRIPTION
The shells file contains a list of the shells on the system. Applications use this file to determine whether a shell is valid. See getuser-
shell(3C). For each shell a single line should be present, consisting of the shell's path, relative to root.
A hash mark (#) indicates the beginning of a comment; subsequent characters up to the end of the line are not interpreted by the routines
which search the file. Blank lines are also ignored.
The following default shells are used by utilities: /bin/bash, /bin/csh, /bin/jsh, /bin/ksh, /bin/ksh93, /bin/pfcsh, /bin/pfksh, /bin/pfsh,
/bin/sh, /bin/tcsh, /bin/zsh, /sbin/jsh, /sbin/sh, /usr/bin/bash, /usr/bin/csh, /usr/bin/jsh, /usr/bin/ksh, /usr/bin/ksh93, /usr/bin/pfcsh,
/usr/bin/pfksh, /usr/bin/pfsh, and /usr/bin/sh, /usr/bin/tcsh, /usr/bin/zsh, and /usr/sfw/bin/zsh. /etc/shells overrides the default list.
Invalid shells in /etc/shells could cause unexpected behavior, such as being unable to log in by way of ftp(1).
FILES
/etc/shells list of shells on system
SEE ALSO vipw(1B), ftpd(1M), sendmail(1M), getusershell(3C), aliases(4)SunOS 5.11 20 Nov 2007 shells(4)