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Hiya all,

Simple question - yet no simple answer im afraid !

Is there a way to execute a shell script (child) which returns one line and get the current (parent) shell to execute the stdout...

Hi Blowtorch,

Works out of the box !

Thank you so so much.

Cheers,

FMA

Dear Forum,

My .cshrc settings are embedded in a massive jungle of code distributed all over the place, where finding anything is a "needle in a haystack" daily pain in the royal backside.

Is...

Hi Jim,

BTW Great advice, thank you.

So if i understand you right you right, i will end up with a pretty complex .cshrc file. Which is fine by me !

The fact is i just thought there might...

Hi all,

For the past 3 days I have been struggling like :mad: to setup a VNC system between a solaris 8 unix host server and a windows XP tightvnc client viewer.

Please bear in mind that the...

Its because i use readline to ask the user which project he want to log into ! This is one one section of a huge modular script i am writing.

i agree with cbkihong !!! You could therefore ensure that the last field contains something < != "" > basically not equal to nil .....

i would add something like this to check for it :
...

If i understand your issue properly you will need to the the last or both of the following :

$prompt 1> sed -r 's/ +/ /g' <filename>
$prompt 2> sed -r 's/ +/\n/g' <filename>

Hope this helps !...

Dear all,

Im sorry to keep going on about this but i honestly do need to make a bourne shell script change the working directory of the current shell.

Is there really no simple switch to...

Dear Bourne Shell Expert,

I am trying to change the current working directory from within a Bourne Shell script. Simply enough i thought !

As I am sure you are well aware, Inside the script i...