I've been successfully running a daily cron script to backup certain things on my server but just recently I started getting input/output errors for everything. For each directory the script tries to backup I now get this:
cp: accessing `/mnt/backup/**dir**/': Input/output error (8 Replies)
I want to prompt a user for input but I want it to timeout after a specified time if no response is given. I tried the sleep command but this does not work. I am using ksh.
Thanks. (10 Replies)
/home/adw/a.ksh << EOF
a
b
EOF
This is how we give input to a file through script
Our client has done the coding in a different way :-
/home/adw/a.ksh << **
a
b
Can nybody pls tell me the significance of ** (7 Replies)
My C++ program creates a nxn matrix with given value. For e.g if the input is 10 it will creates a matrix of 10x10 now what i want is the script should run program and give input values in a variation of 1000. Say first matrix of 1000 then 2000 , 3000 ..... 10000. I tried using for loop but unable... (2 Replies)
Hi all,
I have a problem with qwk command.
i have to check process status and for that i am using command
prstat -mvL 1 1
and it gives me the entire output
but when i use this command with awk like this:
prstat -mvL 1 1 | awk -F" " '{print $1,$15}'
to get first and 15th arguments.
... (3 Replies)
i'm calling a python script from shell script. the python needs Y as an input everytime. how can i giv it thru shell script.
I tried below code
for arg in `cat erd_gen_list.lst`
do
generateErdSql.py -S $arg << Y
done
This is giving me err : `<<' unmatched
pls help. (1 Reply)
Hi,
Please help me,its urgent.
I have a tool that i want to run from a shell script. When we run the tool it will ask the user choice to add or delete. When user enter the choice it will then ask how many units he want to delete or add and will add or delete accordingly.
Now I want to... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I am a newbie to scripting. I want to know something..Is there any way that I can do this?
Here is the thing.. there are so many printer queues in which i need to change a certain option.. am using the hppi utility and i need to modify the printer configuration individually going to each... (3 Replies)
Hi all,
I am looking for a specific requirement. I am trying to create a wrapper over a set of shell scripts. Some shell scripts wait for user inputs. These inputs may not be same format. And will be spread across multiple files.
In short a set of scripts are going to be run on another set... (1 Reply)
Hello,
I'm trying to figure out how best to approach this script, and I have very little experience, so I could use all the help I can get. :wall:
I regularly need to delete files from many directories.
A file with the same name may exist any number of times in different subdirectories.... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: *ShadowCat*
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LEARN ABOUT OPENDARWIN
times
times(1) User Commands times(1)NAME
times - shell built-in function to report time usages of the current shell
SYNOPSIS
sh
times
ksh
times
DESCRIPTION
sh
Print the accumulated user and system times for processes run from the shell.
ksh
Print the accumulated user and system times for the shell and for processes run from the shell.
On this man page, ksh(1) commands that are preceded by one or two * (asterisks) are treated specially in the following ways:
1. Variable assignment lists preceding the command remain in effect when the command completes.
2. I/O redirections are processed after variable assignments.
3. Errors cause a script that contains them to abort.
4. Words, following a command preceded by ** that are in the format of a variable assignment, are expanded with the same rules as a vari-
able assignment. This means that tilde substitution is performed after the = sign and word splitting and file name generation are not
performed.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO ksh(1), sh(1), time(1), attributes(5)SunOS 5.10 15 Apr 1994 times(1)