1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi All, Can anyone please let me know the syntax / how to pick up the Return Code ( RC) from the mailx command and return it to SAS uisng 'system()' function and '${?}'. I am in a process to send the mail automatically with an attachment to bulk users. I have used 'Mailx' and 'Unencode'... (0 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

General Question: If a script calls multiple external programs (external to the script, but still on unix), where do the return codes go? Let's say one of external programs fails, does the entire script fail and send a non-zero return code to the job scheduling software, or is the return code sent... (1 Reply)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

i have to run set of commands command1 command2 command3 command4 Now Whenever any of these command fails i should quit while capturing error message. Is there a better way then checking for $? after each command. (1 Reply)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I have a unix shell script which is launching multiple java processes by calling a java class in a loop, but each time with a different set of parameters. Now I have to use the return code from each process in the script later. but how do i obtain the return code from each process... (1 Reply)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I have a script which does something like the below: execute_some_script.sh $arg1 $arg2 `exec-some-cmd` if then; do something else do something else fi However, during some cases, there is an error saying: line xxx: [: too many arguments at the line number which has... (5 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I need to retrun multiple values function errorFileCreation { echo "Before" return -1 "Siva"; echo "Aftyer" } echo ${?} - This can be used to getting first value. how can i get second one. Advance Thanks... Shiv (3 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

HI, Please help me on this. I have to execute 100 scripts which i have redirected in to a file . I want to pause the script after first execution and once i say enter key word it has to go to next execution. My looks like for RUNFILES in `cat ${SOURCEFILES}/scripts` do echo $RUNFILES; ... (1 Reply)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

I wrote this script #!/bin/bash var=`du -sch /var/log/messages;du -sch /var/log/maillog` echo $var I am getting result as follows. # sh my.sh 2.1M /var/log/messages 2.1M total 296K /var/log/maillog 296K total I need it like below 2.1M /var/log/messages 296K... (3 Replies)

9. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

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10. Shell Programming and Scripting

when it runs and look at my acron.log file it generates an error as below /tmp/prog.sh: line 4: (12 Replies)