i am using the below script and trying to move files in that directory in that pattern to archive. But it doesn;t seem to take the metacharacters. Please sugggest.
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I heard this was possible but from my research I haven't been able to figure it out yet. Seems it should be simple enough. Basically from a high level view I'm trying to accomplish...
. $X='grep foo blah.log'
then 'mysql command SELECT foo FROM bar WHERE ' . $X
or something like that.
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Hi Gurus
I have a file called /tmp/CMDB which looks like this
serial: 0623AN1208
hostname: server1
model: x4100
assetID: 1234
I am writing a for loop that will go through this file line by line creating a variable of itself. Using the first iteration of the loop (i.e. the first line) as... (6 Replies)
Hi all,
I have a variable say var1 (output from somewhere, which I can't change)which store something like this:
echo $var1
name=fred
age=25
address="123 abc"
password=pass1234
how can I make the variable $name, $age, $address and $password contain the info?
I mean do this in a... (1 Reply)
I'm running a bash script query and assigning the output to a variable like this:
exists=`mysql -u $USER_NAME --password=$PASSWORD -D "somedb" \
-e "SELECT * FROM somedb.sometable WHERE field1 ='$a' \
AND field2 ='$b' LIMIT 0 , 30";`
which returns something like:
echo... (2 Replies)
Hello. I am writing a simple script that reads a text file and removes records from a mysql database. The items in the text file are of the format:
firstname.middle.lastXXX, where XXX is a 3 digit number. The table has an email field that will match the firstname.middle.last. So, I thought I... (1 Reply)
Is FreeBSD and OpenBSD considered Unix? What O.S does Most of the forum members use? How popular are Licensed Unix operating systems for home users?
Additionally I thought Linux was a Minux fork and BSD was a Unix fork.
Thanks in ... (7 Replies)
Hi all,
I'm bit new to the advanced bash shell scripting.
When I'm looking at some of the existing code in my organization, got confused with a few variable definings.
For ex:
var1={1:-30}
var2="abc def ghi"
var3={xyz:-$var2}
In above, 1st and last lines are confusing me.... (4 Replies)
I'm a bit confused about the term ‘environment variables'.
Within your shell you can set two types of variables:
1. Shell variable - affecting functionality within your shell
2. User defined variable
When using the ‘export' command on a variable you make sure it's being inherited by new sub... (2 Replies)