I am writing a shell script that executes another script by fetching it over the network and piping its contents into sh (ftp -o - $script | sh; or wget -O - |sh). Since this bypasses putting the script on the filesystem, this means I can't source the script directly (using . ), but rather it... (1 Reply)
hi all
i have joined new to the group.
i have set an variable in my bashrc file.
.bashrc
PROGHOME=/home/braf/braf/prog
export PROGHOME
but while using it in my shell script its path is not taken and i had to explicitly give the export command to set the path.
in my script... (8 Replies)
Hello guys.
In my script, i have the following code:
echo "The tarfile contains these directorys"
tar -tf file.tar > tarlist.txt
cat tarlist | awk -F/ '{print $1 "/" $2}' | nl
echo "Enter path of the directory you want to extract or just press enter to extract everything: "
read path... (1 Reply)
Can someone tell me why I'm getting error when I try to run this?
#!/bin/csh -f
source ~/.cshrc
#
set SQLPLUS = ${ORACLE_HOME}/bin/sqlplus
#
set count=`$SQLPLUS -s ${DB_LOGIN} << END
select count(1) from put_groups where group_name='PC' and description='EOD_EVENT' and serial_number=1;... (7 Replies)
first of all, thanks to all on this board, it has been a huge resource to answer most of my questions!
I am stuck on something that should really be simple, and was looking for some help.. I am using KSH on solaris and working on a script to move containers from server to server. Where i am... (4 Replies)
I have a shell script I want to run that will set environment variables based on the value of an input variable submitted when the shell script is called. For example:
$ mgenv.sh prod
This would set environment variables for prod
$ mgenv.sh test
This would set environment variables... (1 Reply)
I am working on a perl script that is used to update a list of hosts to a certain file but I am having an issue when I try to perform a check to make sure the user enters valid information. The following is what I have currently written for the script:
IPINPUT:
print "Enter IP Address: ";... (2 Replies)
greetings,
i have a sh script that calls a python script. the sh script sets an env variable BIN:
export BIN=bin64i need to get that BIN variable's value and use it within this python script. anyone know how to do this? thanx in advance. (5 Replies)
Hi,
Will following set up work in bash script? I've got errors if assigning following binary command to a variable. But on the other hand, COMMAND="ls" works. Any explanation please? How can I assign binary command to a variable COMMAND then I can just call ${COMMAND}?
COMMAND="rsync"... (3 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT BSD
shift
shift(1) User Commands shift(1)NAME
shift - shell built-in function to traverse either a shell's argument list or a list of field-separated words
SYNOPSIS
sh
shift [n]
csh
shift [variable]
ksh
* shift [n]
DESCRIPTION
sh
The positional parameters from $n+1 ... are renamed $1 ... . If n is not given, it is assumed to be 1.
csh
The components of argv, or variable, if supplied, are shifted to the left, discarding the first component. It is an error for the variable
not to be set or to have a null value.
ksh
The positional parameters from $n+1 $n+1 ... are renamed $1 ..., default n is 1. The parameter n can be any arithmetic expression that
evaluates to a non-negative number less than or equal to $#.
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 csh(1), ksh(1), sh(1), attributes(5)SunOS 5.10 15 Apr 1994 shift(1)