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I'd like to piggy-back onto this post and ask, how do I read everything in between "start" and "end" so that "start" and "end" are not included in the extraction?

I recognize that I can use...

sorry about that and thanks for your response Franklin52.

i have a script that has this syntax: script <group_id> <user_name> <regex>

rules:
* the user can enter single or multiple group_ids...

since i'm still at the top of the list, i thought i would add that i'm using ksh.

thanks for your help.

hi unixers,

i wonder if someone can tell me how i can check for a regex at the command line?


if any parameter begins with a special character then
do this
else
do thatthanks for...

thanks, pistachio! much simpler code.

i had to tweak it slightly by adding a semi-colon:

for i in `cat user_list`; do echo "'"$i"'," >> formatted_user_list; donebut it still doesn't answer my...

hi. i'm trying to create a list users that is formatted for an SQL query. it should take the form:

'user1',
'user2',
'user3'as you can see, there is no comma after the last value. could...

hi,

i am trying to rewrite some of my code onto one line. but it's not working.

what's happening is that the program exits and doesn't execute any of the code that follows.

did i make...

for the other newbies, i made some dumb mistakes. the biggest was that i shouldn't have had a ; after quit. i think this is better:

while read user; do

userid=$user
passwd="changeme"...

i thought about this some more and wonder if this is a smarter solution. it seems closer, but i'd still love feedback if there is a better way:

while read user; do

userid=$user
...

hi,

i'm trying to grant usage to multiple users whose ids are in a file. i thought that i could put the mysql code within a while loop, but that's not working for me:


while read user; do
...

hi, unix wizards,

i have a question about the logic of my inner for loop below. first, what i am trying to do is to write a script called create_account that automatically creates mysql...

hi, unix gurus.

i am wondering if someone can give me a clear explanation of the differneces between parentheses and brackets, both single and double.


i have heard that double...

that is sweet! thanks a lot.

hi, unix gurus.

i am trying to read a file that has records in this format...

x<group_id>:::<member1a>,<member1b>,<member1c>
x<group_id>:::<member2a>,<member2b>,<member2c>

... and to put...

fantastic. thanks for your help.

hi, i wonder if someone could tell me how to properly convert the following code onto one line:


if [ ! -f ./some_file ]
then
print "The file was not copied"
exit 1
fi


i...

thanks for your response! do you mean something like this? it's not quite working for me. i'm pretty new at this. :o


if [ $# == 3 ]; then
QUERY = "$QUERY update user set...

hi again.

maybe i should add that i understand this much:

if [ -n "$1" ]; then

but i'm unclear on how to check for multiple parameters. i've tried different things, searched through...

hi all,

i have a ksh script that takes up to 3 parameters -- only 2 of which are required. what's the simplest way to check if the user passed 2 or 3 parameters?

if 3 parameters are not...

hi, linux gurus...

i'm trying to write a script in ksh called ResetPass that allows a user to change mysql passwords. the script accepts user, password and host like this: ResetPass <user>...

fantastic. thanks, era.

thank you, otheus! i really appreciate your help.

hi, unix and mysql gurus.

i'm trying to create a simple ksh script that accesses the mysql system database table, user. the idea is that the user can call the script with a regular expression to...