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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touch
TOUCH(1) User Commands TOUCH(1)NAME
touch - change file timestamps
SYNOPSIS
touch [OPTION]... FILE...
DESCRIPTION
Update the access and modification times of each FILE to the current time.
A FILE argument that does not exist is created empty, unless -c or -h is supplied.
A FILE argument string of - is handled specially and causes touch to change the times of the file associated with standard output.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
-a change only the access time
-c, --no-create
do not create any files
-d, --date=STRING
parse STRING and use it instead of current time
-f (ignored)
-h, --no-dereference
affect each symbolic link instead of any referenced file (useful only on systems that can change the timestamps of a symlink)
-m change only the modification time
-r, --reference=FILE
use this file's times instead of current time
-t STAMP
use [[CC]YY]MMDDhhmm[.ss] instead of current time
--time=WORD
change the specified time: WORD is access, atime, or use: equivalent to -a WORD is modify or mtime: equivalent to -m
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
Note that the -d and -t options accept different time-date formats.
GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> Report touch translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
DATE STRING
The --date=STRING is a mostly free format human readable date string such as "Sun, 29 Feb 2004 16:21:42 -0800" or "2004-02-29 16:21:42" or
even "next Thursday". A date string may contain items indicating calendar date, time of day, time zone, day of week, relative time, rela-
tive date, and numbers. An empty string indicates the beginning of the day. The date string format is more complex than is easily docu-
mented here but is fully described in the info documentation.
AUTHOR
Written by Paul Rubin, Arnold Robbins, Jim Kingdon, David MacKenzie, and Randy Smith.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for touch is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and touch programs are properly installed at your site,
the command
info coreutils 'touch invocation'
should give you access to the complete manual.
GNU coreutils 8.22 June 2014 TOUCH(1)