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hello bakunin,

can you please tell me about the next problem of printing the
var that i have posted

in the below script i am expecting the variable surname to be changed but that is not happening can anyone help and explain why and how to do that


surname=halder

echo $surname

while...

in the below code what this set lines are doing ???
and what does this -- variable means


set -- -1 -----------> ??
while getopts 1 opt; do
case "${opt}" in
1) echo "Worked!";;
*) exit 1;...

hello bakunin,
i tried something after reading your post ...there is a problem..
see below please

*************************CODE**********************

echo $1 $2 $3
...

thanks, that pretty much explained and cleared my confusion ...

as it seems to me you can help can you tell me please in the below code what this set lines are doing


set -- -1 -----------> ??...

i was going through the man page of getopts

this particular section is not clear to me can anyone please
clarify in a little detail so that i can understand the concept

MANPAGE::

Since...

this post is related to the arrangements of libraries in a solaris-8 distribution.

i want to build external packages on solaris-8
i need to know why libraries are scattered in a solaris...

In a solaris 8 machine the native binaries
are mainly kept under /bin and /usr/bin
but some binaries i found in /usr/xpg4/bin

please can anyone tell me in a little detail what is the reason to...

how to know for a particular solaris machine whether i am having a 64 bit or 32 bit processor???

like for machine with details


SunOS 5.8 Generic_108528-20 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Blade-100

i am building open source software on a solaris 8 machine

for couple of days i am getting error messages like

out of memory
or
no more processes and then build is failing


i tried with...

i have a teat file having data like

one 12/3
two 23/09
three 12/12

now from another script i want to read one line at a time ,cut field one and two in two separate variable ,compare field1...

my querry is

suppose i have duplicate std i/p with FD-3 --exec 0<&3
now redirected std i/p to a file ----exec 0<file1

suppose i am reading the file line by line...

her i am trying to edit a database file which is actually a small file holding my friend's name and birthdays

My Database

DEEPAK 27/08
DEEPIKA 18/02
DHYAN 23/03
DIPANKAR 24/10
SNIGDHO...

please post

ls -al file

i dont't know whether this will help..but i hope so

df -k|grep /u0 > file--->redirect to a temp file

In the main script
val=$(cat tempfile | wc -l ) --> counting the no of lines

execute...

i dont know whether you are looking for this or not ..i hope so

var1='malay'
var2=$var1

val=$(echo $var2)

eval echo $val ----> o/p will be malay

ghostdog74


thanks for the sollution but if at all i want to do it using perl can it be done the way i have shown
and if so where the error is occurring

my changed program

#! /usr/bin/bash
set -x
echo "Enter your friend's name"

read FRIEND
found=no
cat database | while read LINE
do
MATCH=...

my database
deepak 23/12 43536
deepika 23/12 675858


my program


echo "Enter your friend's name"

read FRIEND
found=no
cat database | while read LINE
do
...

$ A=/t1/bin/f410pdb oIFS=$IFS IFS=/
$ set -- $A
$ IFS=$oIFS
$ echo $2
t1
$ echo $3
bin
$ echo $4
f410pdb

can any one please explain me what is done with IFS[bold lines] and how it is...

i tried that way but its not working ..
in my shell

csbu061 [mhalder] 277: cd /usr/bin
/usr/bin
csbu061 [mhalder] 278: ls | grep tcsh
tcsh

****my script after introducing the shebang line...

my problem is :

i have a small script automising the firefox invokation from my $HOME/bin
directory:
**********************
set FIREFOX_PATH='/tools/openbin/firefox/2.0.0.3/sparc-sun-solaris8'...

my Querry is

if i build a software on a specific linux kernel [ older version ]
and then try to run it on another linux kernel [ new version ]

....what can be the possible problems
...

what is the real use of xargs command ..?

ls -tr |xargs -I{} rm -f {}
....can any one tell me what is the significance of {} curly brackets in this command

eval echo \$$# will do

OR
eval "echo \$$#"

...any one of them