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OK, it is true, you can find in this forum an answer for each UNIX question. Thanks a lot!

I got a solution for my problem, I put the while loop into the show_menu function.
But it is still not clear for me why my old approach does not work.

Hi you,

This the code I have:

function show_menu {

echo " lalalalal"
echo " 1. ...."
echo " 2. ...."
echo " 3. exit"
read choice

case $choice in
1) ... ;;
2) ...;;
*)...

Thanks alot, You are the best, I didn't know this trick, but it works great!

Hi you,

I have the following problem:

I have a string like the followings: '166Mhz' or '128MB' or '300sec' or ...
What I want to do is, I want to split the strings in a part with the numbers...

typo!!

For sure i did not grep if -v for my process...
I corrected it...

Hi,

I've nearly the same problem, but when I use
ps -ef
I can see the complete anem of the process I like to kill e.g:

ps -ef

bensk 11870 1 0 14:24 pts/5 00:00:00...

Hi,

I am working with HP-UX 11.
I try to make an colored data output with echo.

I tried the following:

echo "\033]32m Red"

This works perfectly in my terminal.
But when I type the same...

THX I did not know, that this variable exists, but I found it in the man page of ksh!! My fault....

And is there an easy way to convert than the seconds into minutes and secondes or just the way...

Hi you,

I think my problem is very similar, so I posted my question here.
I want to measure the time my script runs. So that at the end of teh script I can tell the user the execution of the...

Thanx for your help, it works!

Ben Sky

Hi,

I want to grep within a script for a process.
The problem is I just no the name of the process not its location.

I tried the following:

ps -ef | grep demo

but than I get also...

Hi all,

I solved my problem. I allways searched for "xxx" and compared the part before and the do the same function for the part after the "xxx". Here is my code for this:

function check {
...

Hi

the problem is, that not allways "!!" sings are there this also could be ",./!@#" etc.

Regards
Ben

Hi,

my problem is, I have to files, one is a log file of an actual execution, the other file is a pattern file.

The entries

"abcd,,!!11.22!!,3asdf" and
"abcd,,!!xx.xx!!,3asdf"
...

Hi,

although its not so nice to convert the * to a - its a solution.
Thanks.

Hi,

I wnat to read a fiel line by line and store each line in a variabel, so I made a for loop:


for i in `cat file` ; do
#do sth.

done;

The problem is, that in the file, there are...

Hi,

I found the error..

I had set the
IFS="|" so that than the echo also printed out the whitespaces...

Thanks for your help

Ben Sky

Hi


David I tested your statement, and it works, if i do this in the prompt, but if I include this in my script it doesn't work:

a=`echo $1 | sed s/\s+//`
echo "!${a}!"

there are still...

Hi,

I know removing whitespaces I can found so many threads to read how it works and i did it, but my problem isn't solved...

I have in my script a variable $1 which can contains a text like " ...

Ok, but is there also a possibility to view man pages without moving it in one of these directories, because I don't have rights to write sth. in these directories!!

Hi,

I've written now a man pages, but I don't knwo how to get 'man' to view them. Where have I to put this files, which directories are allowed??

THX Bensky

Hi,

I wnat to create my own man pages, but I can't find a good description of the troff language.

Knows somebaody a good docu including examples??

Thx Bensky