1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I am using the code below to write a command to launch a script only if the number of users on the system is less than 10. The code below isn't working. Any suggestions? HELP.. if && ; then frizzle ; fi (3 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Erase the space in assigment operator. array_var=`expr $base_val + $x` (1 Reply)

3. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Using bash, I'm trying to read a .properties file (name=value pairs), assigning an indirect variable reference for each line in the file. The trick is that a property's value string may contain the name of a property that occurred earlier in the file, and I want the name of the 1st property to... (5 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

I'm trying to write a script using the 'find' command and it's -exec option to run a compound command against the files found. Example: find . -name "*.conf" -exec cat {} | grep "#" > /tmp/comments.list \; Of course the above doesn't work. So I experimented for a bit to see if there was... (6 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

how can i use two or multiple statements in the if part of an awk code for example i want to check two flag if they are true i will write some print operations and increase the counter. here is the c version of the code that i want to write: counter=0; if (flag1==1 && flag2==0) {... (7 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

in a text " Korn Shell Unix programming Manual 3° Edition" i have found this sintax to declare a compoud variable: variable=( fild1 (0 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

in a text " Korn Shell Unix programming Manual 3° Edition" i have found this sintax to declare a compoud variable: variable=( fild1 fild1 ) but this sintax in ksh and sh (HP-UNIX) not work... why?? exist another solution for this type of variable ??? (5 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

I am writing a Bash script that will either clone a database or setup a standby database. So Parameter 2 will be the operation type. If the value is not clone or standby I want to throw an error message. I suppose I can also do a case block. So far i have been unable to get the syntax working... (1 Reply)

9. Programming

Can anyone explain for me why this does not work in tcl: if !{( $a > "" || $b > "" )} { ....... where a and b are string vars. and this works instead: if {!( $a > "" || $b > "" )} { ........ Thanks. (6 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, Here is my problem using KSH I have a set of compound variables, let say cmp_var1 cmp_var2 The names of these variables are stored in an indexed array. How can I access the subfields of these compound variables ? I tried: set -A cmp_varnames=(cmp_var1 cmp_var2) for cmp in... (4 Replies)