1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, Actually I have a file which consists data . for eg names. Then I want my sql query to read this file and produce the output. Currently I am using this FOR EG : FILENAME is NAMES for i in `cat NAMES` { sqlplus -s $CONNECTID << EOF spool rooh set heading off select... (1 Reply)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

I am piping STDOUT from commands such as ifconfig and dmesg through grep, sed and awk to get the information I need. I need to now perform some looping and branching now and have been trying to figure out how to do this on the command line. You may ask "Why the command line? - Why not put it... (2 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi I have around 100 users in sun server and have default home directory in /usr/home/<username> I want to clean their home directory time to time to make free space on root, as users generate many output files during usage of application. My idea is, generate a file with following command... (4 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

I run into a issue when I try to do sorting of the following with ascending order, one round of for looping seems not working, anyone knows how to use shell or perl? $array = (5,0,3,2,7,9,8) (2 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, where can I get usefull information on the use of looping with for , if and while with extensive examples. Also use of variables in scripts (1 Reply)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

vesselNames values: xxx yyy zzz vesselPlanned values: xxx zzz zzz zzz OIFS="" OIFS=$IFS IFS="\n" (2 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, Now I have written a script which sorts the records in the file and splits them according to some condition. Now, I need to modify the script so that it reads all the files one after the other and does the sorting & splitting. Pls help me in reading all the files in a directory and... (8 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi there could anybody point me in the right direction when it comes to looping through the output of a system command in perl (i.e. df -k) doing a test against each line to see if it matches? for example if i have a df -k output like this and I wanted to grab the lines that matched "sda" or... (3 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi evryone i need a help . i have a file xcv.the content is : accelerate i want a script which will run 1000 times in loop and changing the value to accelerate to acceler in 1st loop and in 2nd loop it will be again accelerate and so on . (6 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hey guys, so I am trying to do a loop script that will go through each folder (no gui so just each domain has a folder) and grab out the databases being used on that domain. I know I would use mysql -e "show databases where not 'information_schema';" once in each directory to pull the actual... (3 Replies)