1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Anyone know the code to test for bad numbers? For example in ksh... Want the user to input an integer, but they input characters. read number while (number = letter) read number //until valid number is inputted thx for any help!! :confused: (3 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all this is simple but bad day for me nothing work out .. Problem is that I wan to check the argument passed to my script and accordignly exit or setup ENV variable I have a script name src_cpcp_preproc.sh i want to pass 2 argumet from command line argumet and check it in the script... (13 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

This is the code: while test 1 -eq 1 do read a $a if test $a = stop then break fi done I read a command on every loop an execute it. I check if the string equals the word stop to end the loop,but it say that I gave too many arguments to test. For example echo hello. Now the... (1 Reply)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

How to check weather a string is like test* or test* ot *test* in if condition (5 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Why I get bad replace when using eval? $ map0=( "0" "0000" "0") $ i=0 $ eval echo \${map$i} 0000 $ a=`eval echo \${map$i}` !!!error happens!!! bash: ${map$i}: bad substitution How to resolve it ? Thanks! (5 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I have a Python unit test cases source code file which contains more than a hundred test case methods. In that, some of the test case methods already have prefix 'test' where as some of them do not have. Now, I need to add the string 'test' (case-sensitive) as a prefix to those of the... (5 Replies)