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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I m new to shell scripting. I did some research and understand that unix treats while and other loops as new shell and hence the variable loose its value outside of the loop.
I found solution for integer variable but in mycase this is a string variable.
here variable loc is a... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: knowyrtech
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
There's an input file(input.txt) which has the following details :
CBA
BA
<Please note the second record has a LEADING WHITESPACE which is VALID>
I am using the following code to read the content of the said file line by line:
while read p ; do
echo "$p"
done < input.txt
This is the... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: kumarjt
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3. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Hi All,
Am working on several solaris server and login as root.
As soon as access the server as root user, i need to type in below command/set :
bash;set -o vi
Is there any root profile file i can set this, so that i don't need to keep typing this command as when i access the... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: Optimus81
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I am trying to calculate a few values using the below code but it dosent seem to be working.
for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
do
j=`expr $i + 3`
x =`head -$j temp1|tail -1|cut -f24 -d","`
y =`head -$j temp1|tail -1|cut -f25 -d","`
c =`expr $x / $y`
echo "$c" >> cal_1
done
I am not... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: sachinnayyar
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello.
I'm trying to add multiple numbers with varying length and with leading zeroes in it. However, I'm getting the sum (totalHashAccountNumber) without the leading zeroes in it. How do I retain the leading zeroes?
Please pardon the lengthy code.. I'm getting the hash account number from 2... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: udelalv
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
HI
i like to concatenate the two variables
var1=$line (ie 22885068900000652 B86860003OLFXXX592123320081227)
var2=$amount (ie 123456)
i want to club together both the above varaible var1 & var2 and assign back to var1
right now i am doing like this but it is not working.
var1=`echo... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: kshuser
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I wat to remove the first two columns of the ls -l command:
$ ls -l | awk '{ $1="";$2="";print;}'
The only problem is now the columns of the output is space separated instead of the separators the ls -l originally throws. Can someone tell how to preserve the default OFS of an ls -l... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: amicon007
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
hi all,
Is there any way to retain file path?
echo "Please enter your old filename"
read a
#user input : /blah/blah1
echo "please enter the new filename"
read b
#user input : dumb
mv $a $b
What i would like to do is for the user to enter just the "filename" for the new filename... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: c00kie88
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Bourne shell
Solaris
I'm trying to set a flag to perform an action only when data is found. So I initialize the flag with:
X=0
Then I read the data:
if ; then
while read a b c
do
X=1
done < ${inputFile}
fi
The problem is that X will be set to 1 inside the while loop but when... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: gillbates
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have problem like this :
while loop
1 var=some expression
2 if then
3 Do something
4 oldVar=$var
5 fi
6 done
Then, I am facing error at line number 2, mentioning invalid argument. Can anyone please help me for, How to retain value in oldVar? (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: videsh77
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