I need to pass a parameter to a function in a script. My parameter is a string. When I display the parameter within my function, I only get the first word from string I pass in.
How can I make the function receive the whole string (and not terminate at the first space it encounters)?.
part of... (1 Reply)
Hi
I have a shell function which returns string(ksh). The string is an sql statement.
This statement can have '*' in its content (i.e. select 100 / 2 *100 from dual).
When this happens ret_str will have contents of current directry I run the script from build in sql. Is there any way to fix it... (2 Replies)
HI all,
Very new to shell programming and just wanted some help on how to solve the following problem.
I have a small shell script which searches a given file and extracts some string parameters. I want to now be able to call this script from another shell script and somehow pass the parameters... (11 Replies)
hi to all
code:
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command... "command_name arg1 arg2 option=xxxxx"
example --- useradd username group=xxxxxx.
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when someone ran this command it point to some other script (say script1), mean post execution of command.
in the script1 i need only "xxxxx" value. then i... (5 Replies)
I'm trying to create a bash script that takes a URL as one of its arguments like this:
./script.sh http://url.cfm?asdf&asdf=234
variable=$1
echo $variable
I'm having trouble storing the URL because it contains the meta character "&" which is being interpreted... thus when I run the... (4 Replies)
Hi All,
I need to know how to derive the day of the week by passing the value in following format:
Feb 28 2010
The output I'm expecting is Sunday or Sun.
I know, I can use the following code to get the day of the week.
date +%a
But I want to pass the value as a string. Please help... (11 Replies)
For example
test.sh:
test="teststring"
cmd=$1
$cmd
For some reason I'm NOT seeing "teststring" when I type: ./test.sh "echo $test"
Any ideas on how to get around this?
I've tried commands like:
./test.sh "echo $($test)"
./test.sh "echo '$test'"
And many variations to no... (6 Replies)
I have an for loop that reads the following file
cat param.cfg
val1:env1:opt1
val2:env2:opt2
val3:env3:opt3
val4:env4:opt4
.
.
The for loop extracts the each line of the file so that at any one point, the value of i is
val1:env1:opt1 etc...
I would like to extract each... (19 Replies)
attempting the hangman program. This was an optional assignment from the professor. I have completed the logical coding, debugging now.
##I have an array $wordString that initializes to a string of dashes
##reflecting the number of letters in $theWord
##every time the user enters a (valid)... (5 Replies)
Hello,
I have file (PARFILE) with string on first line:
INCLUDE=SCHEMA:"IN\( 'SCHEMA1','SCHEMA2','SCHEMA3' \)"In .sh script I use:
....
IMPORT_SCHEMA=`awk 'NR==1{print $2}' ${PARFILE}`
...print $2 is because 'SCHEMA1','SCHEMA2','SCHEMA3' is 2nd column in file
echo "$IMPORT_SCHEMA"... (5 Replies)
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ddate
DDATE(1) Emperor Norton Utilities DDATE(1)NAME
ddate - converts Gregorian dates to Discordian dates
SYNOPSIS
ddate [+format] [date]
DESCRIPTION
ddate prints the date in Discordian date format.
If called with no arguments, ddate will get the current system date, convert this to the Discordian date format and print this on the stan-
dard output. Alternatively, a Gregorian date may be specified on the command line, in the form of a numerical day, month and year.
If a format string is specified, the Discordian date will be printed in a format specified by the string. This mechanism works similarly to
the format string mechanism of date(1), only almost completely differently. The fields are:
%A Full name of the day of the week (i.e., Sweetmorn)
%a Abbreviated name of the day of the week (i.e., SM)
%B Full name of the season (i.e., Chaos)
%b Abbreviated name of the season (i.e., Chs)
%d Ordinal number of day in season (i.e., 23)
%e Cardinal number of day in season (i.e., 23rd)
%H Name of current Holyday, if any
%N Magic code to prevent rest of format from being printed unless today is a Holyday.
%n Newline
%t Tab
%X Number of days remaining until X-Day. (Not valid if the SubGenius options are not compiled in.)
%{
%} Used to enclose the part of the string which is to be replaced with the words "St. Tib's Day" if the current day is St. Tib's Day.
%. Try it and see.
EXAMPLES
% ddate
Sweetmorn, Bureaucracy 42, 3161 YOLD
% ddate +'Today is %{%A, the %e of %B%}, %Y. %N%nCelebrate %H'
Today is Sweetmorn, the 42nd of Bureaucracy, 3161.
% ddate +"It's %{%A, the %e of %B%}, %Y. %N%nCelebrate %H" 26 9 1995
It's Prickle-Prickle, the 50th of Bureaucracy, 3161.
Celebrate Bureflux
% ddate +"Today's %{%A, the %e of %B%}, %Y. %N%nCelebrate %H" 29 2 1996
Today's St. Tib's Day, 3162.
BUGS ddate(1) will produce undefined behavior if asked to produce the date for St. Tib's day and its format string does not contain the St.
Tib's Day delimiters %{ and %}.
NOTE
After `X-Day' passed without incident, the Church of the SubGenius declared that it had got the year upside down - X-Day is actually in
8661 AD rather than 1998 AD. Thus, the True X-Day is Cfn 40, 9827.
AUTHOR
Original program by Druel the Chaotic aka Jeremy Johnson (mpython@gnu.ai.mit.edu)
Major rewrite by Lee H:. O:. Smith, KYTP, aka Andrew Bulhak (acb@dev.null.org)
Five tons of flax.
DISTRIBUTION POLICY
Public domain. All rites reversed.
SEE ALSO date(1),
http://www.subgenius.com/
Malaclypse the Younger, Principia Discordia, Or How I Found Goddess And What I Did To Her When I Found Her
AVAILABILITY
The ddate command is part of the util-linux package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
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