As is often the case with a little bit of jiggery pokery there is a pseudo-back-door.
The storage device can be your friend although it will slow things down with the disk thrashing and huge numbers.
NOTE: This uses 'dash' which means it is fully POSIX compliant.
Results OSX 10.14.3, default terminal.
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I use AIX (ksh) and Linux (bash) servers. I'm trying to do scripts to will run in both ksh and bash, and most of the time it works. But this time I don't get it in bash (I'm more familar in ksh).
The goal of my script if to read a "config file" (like "ini" file), and make various report.... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have a file (details.txt) with 3 rows of variables ie...
name postcode age
john D fr25dd 25
mark W ab122aa 22
phil C cd343bb 33
What I want to do is read down the list with a loop and add each field into a one line piece of text...
So I have a file (test1) which reads;... (3 Replies)
I am writing a shell script using the korn shell. It seems that I am only
able to use local variables within a while loop that is reading a file.
(I can't access a variable outside a previously used while loop.) It's been
a while since I wrote shell scripts. Here is a sample
cat file.txt... (4 Replies)
Hi Friends ,
Sorry if this is a repeated question ,
The input file contains 5 lines , so the the values of the variables i and count should b
i=5;
count=15
but the variables are not updating , the value of variables showing i=0 and count =0 only.:mad:
can any1 help me please. (11 Replies)
Hello
I am having issues with a script I'm working on developing on a Solaris machine.
The script is intended to find out how many times a particular user (by given userid) has logged into the local system for more than one hour today.
Here is my while loop:
last $user | grep -v 'sshd'... (7 Replies)
Hi All,
I've been researching this problem and I am pretty sure that the issue is related to the while loop and the piping. There are plenty of other threads about this issue that recommend removing the pipe and using redirection. However, I haven't been able to get it working using the ssh and... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I have a loop running until a variable L that is read previously in the full script. I'd like to grep some information in an input file at a line that contains the value of the loop parameter $i.
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Hello! Before you "bash" me with
- Not another post of this kind
Please read on and you will understand my problem...
I am using the below to extract a sum of the diskIO on a Solaris server.
#!/bin/sh
PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin; export PATH
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Dear mentors, I just need little explanation regarding for loop to give input to awk script
for file in `ls *.txt |sort -t"_" -k2n,2`; do
awk script $file
done
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suppose if I have to input 2 or... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I'm a Delphi developer new to linux, new to this forums and new to BASH programming and got a new task in my work: maintaining an existing set of BASH scripts. First thing I want to do is making the code more reliable as in my opinion it's really bad written. So here's the quest:
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shtool-echo
SHTOOL-ECHO.TMP(1) GNU Portable Shell Tool SHTOOL-ECHO.TMP(1)NAME
shtool-echo - GNU shtool echo(1) extensional command
SYNOPSIS
shtool echo [-n|--newline] [-e|--expand] string
DESCRIPTION
shtool echo is an echo(1) style command which prints string to stdout and optionally provides special expansion constructs (terminal bold
mode, environment details, date, etc) and newline control. The trick of this command is that it provides a portable -n option and hides the
gory details needed to find out the environment details under option -e.
OPTIONS
The following command line options are available.
-n, --newline
By default, output is written to stdout followed by a "newline" (ASCII character 0x0a). If option -n is used, this newline character is
omitted.
-e, --expand
If option -e is used, string can contain special "%x" constructs which are expanded before the output is written. Currently the
following constructs are recognized:
%B switch terminal mode to bold display mode.
%b switch terminal mode back to normal display mode.
%u the current user name.
%U the current user id (numerical).
%g the current group name.
%G the current group id (numerical).
%h the current hostname (without any domain extension).
%d the current domain name.
%D the current day of the month.
%M the current month (numerical).
%m the current month name.
%Y the current year.
EXAMPLE
# shell script
shtool echo -n -e "Enter your name [%B%u%b]: "; read name
shtool echo -e "Your Email address might be %u@%h%d"
shtool echo -e "The current date is %D-%m-%Y"
HISTORY
The GNU shtool echo command was originally written by Ralf S. Engelschall <rse@engelschall.com> in 1998 for Website META Language (WML)
under the name buildinfo. It was later taken over into GNU shtool.
SEE ALSO shtool(1), echo(1).
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