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Thank you for all the responses.
I tested using for loop which worked out well and ended up using backup_run $1 followed by backup_run $2 as I had to call function for each argument at 2 different...

Kindly excuse my first post. Here is my actual script and I looked around to see if I could edit the first post. I'm trying to find how to pass 2 arguments to the script which in turn passes those 2...

I have a script that uses 2 arguments. I want to call the function part within this script using these same arguments. Below is what I came up with below script so far, any guidance would be helpful....

Hi,
I have 2 scripts, first.ksh and second.ksh and would like first.ksh to run based on response of 'Y/y' received for second.ksh but in my case it continues to execute 'rm /tmp/list' irrespective...

Hi, Below is the script that I came up with but looking to see if there is a more appropriate way to achieve this by reducing number of "for" loops or something.

Regards,
mbak


#!/usr/bin/ksh...

Thanks to hicksd8 and Andrew for giving me couple of options to work with, much appreciated.

OS=AIX
Basically, I'm just trying to trap the error in the script and log it to ERR.OUT before mailing out ERR.OUT via mail command.

My apologies for missing out a value in the script, it should have been as below,

if grep -w $DISK1 NEWDISK.list | read VG DISK2 DISK3

Since I'm replacing multiple disks, I want to get an...

Hi,

The script below works okay and emails me the log in the end once the script completes but what I'm trying to do is to also notify me via an email as soon as the script encounters any error...

I tried using the nohup option and for some reason it exits the script abruptly on the remote server but it works just fine with 'at' job and I'm also able to pass an argument on remote server with...

I'd like to pass 1 argument to the below code from a script called mail.sh that runs this code on remote server, any idea how to do it, I tried double quotes but it runs on the local server and also...

I ran using nohup and it works the same way as at except that nohup sends the output to screen as well and I'd like set it up to receive an email only option to the user running the job rather than...

Thanks for suggesting to use && which does the error check and I'd change the script name once it is complete as I need to add some more functionality.

The reason I prefer using at over nohup is...

I had to refrain from using 'exec' command as it abruptly ends my login session as soon as I run the command without giving any errors and also got rid of '&&'.
Btw..this is ksh on AIX OS.

Below...

I'm trying to execute the script and it just kills my session at the end of execution.

Hi there,

I'm trying to run a script remotely on a server in a particular directory named after hostname which already exists, my login session gets killed as soon as I run the below command. Not...

Thanks for your suggestion to take a step back,
here is the working code,

#!/bin/ksh
for i in $(lspv |grep hdisk | awk '{print $1}')
do
LIC=$(lscfg -vl $i |grep LIC | cut -d\. -f17)
...

My bad...I didn't realize about lspv and lscfg outputs.

Here is the sample output of lspv and lscfg for reference
# lspv | awk '{print $1}'
hdisk0
hdisk1
hdisk2
hdisk3
hdisk4
hdisk5
hdisk6...

#cat /tmp/input
old_array old_dev new_dev new_array
0577 008AB 01744 0125
0577 008AC 01745 0125
0577 008AD 005C8 0125
0577 008AE 005C9 0125
0577 008AF 005CA...

I'm trying to automatically pass user input values into a script that is being called from another script, below is my current script and I added a comment next to the script where it asks user to...

$ ./test.sh
++ date +%Y
+ year=2016
+ for f in '/tmp/*.log'
+ cat /tmp/2016.log
cat: /tmp/2016.log: input file is output file
+ rm /tmp/2016.log
+ for f in '/tmp/*.log'
+ cat /tmp/aaa.log
+...

Aia - A belated thanks as I was away for sometime and didn't had a chance to look at the code, I'll post back if there are any issues.

Hi there,
Here is what I currently have and trying to come up with a logic to automatically append logs to a respective year file. The log files might get generated everyday or any other day,...

This is what I was trying to achieve, Thank you so much for keeping it simple as well :)

I'm separating disks coming off a particular XIV storage array and redirecting output to /tmp/list.out as below

lsdev -Cc disk |grep 2810 |grep awk'{print$1}' > /tmp/list.out
and

cat...