I have a little script to help me manage a gallery of image files. It makes symbolic links to every file in and below the current directory, placing them in a target directory which is passed to the script as a parameter. Unfortunately, the script pukes when I pass a parameter that contains... (4 Replies)
I'm having problems with bash scripts. If a bash script is called with no arguments, I always get "PHIST=!" as the first argument (i.e. this is what $1 equals). Why? Where does this come from, and how can I fix it? Nothing in the bash man pages refer to this mysterious default argument. (2 Replies)
Can someone please help me with this SHELL script?
I need to create a script that gets a positive number n as an argument. The script must calculate the factorial of its argument. In other words, it must calculate n!=1x2x3x...xn. Note that 0!=1.
Here is a start but I have no clue how to... (3 Replies)
Hi,
The following code finds the line containing fruits in test.txt and replaces instances of apple with banana.
ed -s test.txt <<< $'/fruits/s/apple/banana/g\nw'
What I want to do is put variables in the place of fruits, apple and banana.
I have tried replacing ' with " to get... (2 Replies)
Hi guys!
So, I use GET ( Simple user agent using LWP library. ) on a remote text file that is then passed to bash and executed. However, I need to pass that bash script a single argument, and so far nothing that I have tried has worked, although I have learned quite a bit about input/output... (5 Replies)
Hi everybody!
I am writing a script which accepts two arguments one of them being a message. All is working except for the message part. That is, to accept text as an argument.
I have trouble storing and echoing a line of text. It seems that writing a few words and store them in an... (6 Replies)
Hi Guys,
I have an issue with awk and variables. I have trawled the internet and forums but can't seem to get the exactt syntax I need.
I have tried using awk -v and all sorts of variations but I have hit a brick wall. I have spent a full day on this and am just going round in circles.
... (3 Replies)
I have a bash script where I pass an argument
./chris.bash "\argv Test"
I want to detect if the user supplied \argv at the start of the argument (3 Replies)
Hi Guys,
I wrote a collection of bash functions years ago and now need to use them again but
I'm getting some error messages when eval tries to expand the variables names.
I recollect that I used the shopt command to set one of the options but I can't quite
remember the command that I... (8 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT OSX
face
face(1) User Commands face(1)NAME
face - executable for the Framed Access Command Environment Interface
SYNOPSIS
face [-i init_file] [-c command_file] [-a alias_file] [filename...]
DESCRIPTION
The Framed Access Command Environment Interface (FACE) presents your files and file folders on the screen through a system of menus and
forms if you are properly set up as a FACE user.
filename must follow the naming convention Menu.xxx for a menu, Form.xxx for a form, and Text.xxx for a text file, where xxx is any string
that conforms to the UNIX system file naming conventions. The Form and Menu Language Interpreter (FMLI) descriptor lifetime will be
ignored for all frames opened by argument to face. These frames have a lifetime of immortal by default. If filename is not specified on the
command line, the FACE Menu will be opened along with those objects specified by the
LOGINWIN environment variables. These variables are found in the user's .environ file.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-a alias_file Alias file
-c command_file Command file
-i init_file Initial file
OPERANDS
The following operand is supported:
filename The full pathname of the file describing the object to be opened initially.
EXIT STATUS
The face command will return a non-zero exit value if the user is not properly set up as a FACE user.
FILES
$HOME/pref/.environ
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWfac |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO env(1), attributes(5)SunOS 5.10 5 Jul 1990 face(1)
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