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1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
Sorry for a dummy question I believe. I am just wanting to know how do I assign a default $1 argument if one is not provided.
At the moment, I am doing something like below:
arg1="${1:-foo}"And then I check $arg1 in case/esac. I am just wondering if there is a way for me to simply do... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: newbie_01
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
In a Bash script I used getopts command to let a user does something regards to the selected options. The question is: How do you find out what is the name of the file that user inserted in the command line like the following:
The good part is this file is always the last argument in the... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: bashily
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello where I can find or can anybody send me a full list with parameters of ssh.
I hope to understand what I mean. For exam -xpvf (tar -xpvf file.tar.gz)
-x -p -v -f what do any of these parameters I have command for extract tar.gz file but I want to do this without folder but I don't know what... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: gladiator6
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
My target is to find the list of orphan processes running and i issue the below command with some exception ids.
ps -ef | egrep -v "root|system|admin" | awk '{if ($3 == 1) print $1",\t"$2",\t"$3}'
but this will exclude the process having the word 'root' and executing under different... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: Arunprasad
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5. Solaris
Hi gurus
Could anybody tell me which file is read by kernel to set its default system kernal parameters values in solaris. Here I am not taking about /etc/system file which is used to load kernal modules or to change any default system kernal parameter value
Is it /dev/kmem file or something... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: girish.batra
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6. AIX
Hello,
On Aix 5.2, we changed the parameters tcp_keepinit, tcp_keepintvl and tcp_keepidle with the no command.
tunrestore -R is present in inittab
in the directory /etc/tunables we can clearly see the inclusion of parameters during reboot, including the file lastboot.log
... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: dantares
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have a script that processes the positional parameters provided on the command line, or - if none are provided - uses some defaults instead.
I've currently got it written as follows, which works like a charm, but I was wondering if there is a different/other/better/... way of doing... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: pvdb
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
please tell me the systax for passing 11 variables(including 4compulsory variables) in shell program.
ORA_USERPASS=`echo $1`
USERID=`echo $2`
USERNAME=`echo $3`
REQUESTID=`echo $4`
P5=`echo $5`
P6=`echo $6`
P7=`echo $7`
P8=`echo $8`
P9=`echo $9`
shift
P10=`echo $9`
shift... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: anitha126
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a script that needs to check if the given parameters are a combination of 0123456789 and not a word or another irelevant character.please help (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: aekaramg20
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10. Cybersecurity
I am working on AIX flavor of Unix and was trying to run a script to obtain default settings of user passwords. The script uses the command to obtain default valid user attributes for:
/etc/security/user
for some reason, the message says-
cat: cannot open /etc/security/user... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: eysheikah
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