1. Shell Programming and Scripting

My script has the following for loop in it. foreach id (CLKM4 DGTM4 GNNM4) eval echo $id \$${id}sf \$${id}sfk end so "id" is a variable defined in the loop, and "idsf" and "idsfk" are variables defined in another part of the script, they return values of 0 or more. The problem i'm... (2 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, I'm running some encrypted data through a script I wrote. In order to do this, I'm using eval to resolve some of my variables. At the moment, when I use eval to resolve, it strips out some of my encrypted values, and totally drops some others. For example if I have the value ab1"3 it drops... (1 Reply)

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Bit of a weird one i suppose, i want to use an echo inside an echo... For example... i have a script that i want to use to take users input and create another script. Inside this script it creates it also needs to use echos... echo "echo "hello"" >$file echo "echo "goodbye"" >$file ... (3 Replies)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

So, I'm looking over /proc/cpuinfo and have a question... I've read that "siblings" refers to hyperthreading, but that seems odd considering the contents of cpuinfo. Here's a part: model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5410 @ 2.33GHz physical id : 0 siblings : 4 core... (1 Reply)

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi: how come this command does not work? the error message is: xargs: cd: No such file or directory yet, in the same time, 'echo dir_path | xargs ls' works. Does it work in bash? We use csh. Thanks. NB Phil (7 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

my command deletes the oldest file from a folder and I'd like to have some type of output when the file is selected or deleted. ls -t -1 | tail -n 1 | xargs rm I'm not sure how to incorporate echo into this. Thanks, (2 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all, some small script with eval turned me to crazy. my OS is linux Linux s10-1310 2.6.16.53-0.8.PTF.434477.3.TDC.0-smp #1 SMP Fri Aug 31 06:07:27 PDT 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux below script works well #!/bin/bash eval ssh remotehost date eval ssh remotehost ls below... (1 Reply)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

anyone has any info on why this is complaining??? vivek@vivek-c5e55ef2e ~/TAC $ zoneCounter=1 vivek@vivek-c5e55ef2e ~/TAC $ optUsage1=23% vivek@vivek-c5e55ef2e ~/TAC $ eval eval echo "<th>Zone $zoneCounter </th><th align=\"left\"> \$optUsage$zoneCounter </th>" -bash: syntax error... (1 Reply)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

anyone has any info on why this is complaining??? vivek@vivek-c5e55ef2e ~/TAC $ zoneCounter=1 vivek@vivek-c5e55ef2e ~/TAC $ optUsage1=23% vivek@vivek-c5e55ef2e ~/TAC $ eval eval echo "<th>Zone $zoneCounter </th><th align=\"left\"> \$optUsage$zoneCounter </th>" -bash: syntax error... (13 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

thank you (35 Replies)