Help with making the output of a command a variable
I'm writing a script that goes something like this:
I want to open a dialog box with check boxes, package names, and descriptions. The box I have written is the first attached file.
I plan on adding other programs, but I have not gotten there yet.
The
in the line
is for the first checkbox.
My main problem is the quotation marks at the end and beginning of the line (attached file #2). The quotation marks read in the wrong direction, and not how I want them to, having quotation marks inside of quotation marks?
Is there any way to fix this? Do I need to take a completely different approach?
With cut -c 8-13 myfile,
I am getting some numeric value.
In my shell script I am trying to assign something like this,
var=cut -c 8-13 myfile
But at the time of execution I am getting -c is not found.
If I dont assign, then script executes well.
Can we not simply use the value from one... (8 Replies)
Hi,
I am looking for a way to redirect the result from a command into a variable.
This is the scenario.
Using the find command I will be getting multiple records/lines back.
Here is the command I am using:
find /”path”/ -name nohup.out -print
This now is giving me the paths and file... (1 Reply)
Hi,
i have two questions, I am new to programming
1. I have an output of a command and i want to get some specific part of it in a variable. i am trying
sr=`some comand xyz| grep 'Last Changed Rev:' | cut -c19-`
now variable sr gets a end of line character at end.
output of the command... (3 Replies)
When I run time -p <command>, it outputs:
real X.XX
user X.XX
sys X.XXwhere X.XX is seconds. How I can take just that first number output, the seconds of real time, and assign that to a variable? (9 Replies)
Hi, with this command:
cu -l /dev/ttyACM0 -s 9600 > name.txt
I put the output of the port in a txt
Is posible to do the same (or similar) in a var directly, inside a C program?
cu -l /dev/ttyACM0 -s 9600 > variable ?
I have trying this withs pipes, but i dont know how to... (6 Replies)
Hi,
Let say I have these 3 files (state, list and myscript). I want to be able get the sample output like below when I run myscript. Any one know how to fix the code? TIA.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> cat /home/state
CA
> cat /home/list
CA 100 50 20
AUS 120 61 10
> cat myscript... (6 Replies)
When script is running you only see when some of the commands are not successfull.
Is there a way to see which command are executed and to show the substitution of variables as every line is executed ? (3 Replies)
Hi,
in shell script, i have the command swstart -p which returns an output. i want to store the output of this command into a variable. how i can do that
excerpt from the script
#!/usr/bin/ksh
#
#
#
# Program: swstart -p
#
# Description: Starts the sentinels on Slave server
... (4 Replies)
I'm working on a short BASH script on my Ubuntu box that will run powerpoint scripts with MS Powerpoint Viewer 2007 via WINE.
I can run the presentation when I run it manually but what i'd like to do is have the script look for the newest file then run it.
#! /bin/sh
# Start the newest... (2 Replies)
I am trying to run a query which returns a sum value(a number).
I want to get it in a variable so that i can refer to that variable in different places.
when i am running the following command
variable=`isql -Uuser -Sserver -Ppassword
1> select sum(count(*)) from xyz..abc where clm_id... (2 Replies)