1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, i am facing an error in the following script in the korn shell but in bash it is working , can any help me to convert the below script to korn shell script without errors. echo 123.4566 | bc -l | awk -F '.' '{ print $1; exit; }' Thanks in advance kamal (5 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Here is what I am trying to do: I have a list of numbers that I pulled from an awk command in a column like so: 1 3 4 7 8 I want to find which numbers in the list are missing out of a range. So let's say I want to find out from the list above which numbers are missing from the... (6 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Ok, i've been messing around in debian the past few days, setting up programs like subversion, mysql and logrotate. The purpose of this script is to use subversion to backup the binary logs. It runs in the cron every 2 hours or so (although I can't get my script to run properly atm, which is why... (1 Reply)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi Thanks for this amazing forum first, I've been searching answers in it for problems that I've encountered at work. The only problem I haven't been able to find a fix for, is a ever waiting for prompt problem in Expect when encounter a $ prompt. I usually set the timeout to -1 cause the... (2 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

The below script gives error: Missing ] #!/bin/csh set MAX=15 set PATTERN='dtsession' set NUM=`ps -eaf | grep -c $PATTERN` echo "No of dtsession = "$NUM if then echo 'Quota exceeded permissible limit' echo 'sending mail...............' mail hiten.r.chauhan@gmail.com<<EOF ... (2 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

here is a small script I wrote: #! /bin/bash if ] then echo "argument is null" fi It is giving error: test.sh: any idea, why is it so? (2 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, While running below code i am getting error as below 0403-004 Specify a parameter with this command. Please look it below code and let me know about if condition. Code is As below #!/usr/bin/ksh Infa_Src_Dir=$DIR/SrcFiles/pp Load_Info_Lst_Path=$DIR/SrcFiles/pp... (1 Reply)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Can somebody tell me the difference between double brackets and single brackets, when doing a test. I have always been acustomed to using single brackets and have not encountered any issues to date. Why would somebody use double brackets. Ie if ] vs if Thanks to... (2 Replies)

9. Red Hat

Hi Guys :) while trying to set the paths for Oracle, sqlplus etc. I have been trying to find dot files (.profile or .kshrc or .bashrc or .cshrc or .login or .bash_profile or similar files) to append new paths so that I can connect to oracle from a shell script (RedHat 6.3 with KSH shell). But I... (6 Replies)

10. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

Dear Friends, Regarding Compilation error character is missing-unix shell script I am new to unix shell script. My requirement is --I need to find out 3 files in my UBM unix directory,if any one(CMUSER) file is available means,then i need to exit from my unix script, Below is my unix... (2 Replies)