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Hi,
I have the necessity to run a korn shell on a remote server (both HP-UX servers) using the ssh command.

The sintax that I use is

ssh -l <remote user> <IP address of remote host>...

I have the necessity to use this command:

cat file1 | grep $A | grep $B

where sometime A and, or, B are not set.

For example:
I set A=@
never defined or set B

The above command...

Thanks!:)

On my OS (Aix v. 5.1) the command echo $VAR|awk '{print gsub("\.",0)}' returns always 1 if the VAR string contains or not a dot character.

echo $VAR|awk '{print gsub("\.",0)}' works...

I wish to compute the number of dot chars in a string.
Example:
VAR="aaaa.bbbbb.cccc"

I try the shortest command to solve this test.

Thanks in advance for your help.
Regards,

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I try to test the carriage return in a variable.
$ LENGTH=`expr $VARIABLE : ".*"` will return the length of the variable. But this doesn't work if $VARIABLE has zero length.

Any help will be...

I tried also with print -n but in writing a on-line tool in korn shell, I wish, pressing enter, to avoid to have the cursor at a new line, waiting a new value if I insert, for example, a loop on read...

Is it possible, in a Korn Shell script, to stop a cursor when I use the read command? More exactly, I try to have the cursor in a same line reading a value but not in a new line.
Maybe to display...

Thanks a lot oombera!
My problem was the single quotes not used in my code!

Now I solved the problem in this way:

rsh $remoteHost 'ls -la $DirRemote >/dev/null 2>$1 ; echo $?'

and the...

Hi,
a little help.

I need to test the return code of a list file command on a remote system (Unix) using the rsh command. More exactly, to test is a directory exists, I try the following...

Thanks!! Now it is perfect!

Giovanni

Hi,
in my korn shell I have this code:

typeset -uL1 rc
read rc?"Insert Y=Yes (default) or N=No >>"

If I press enter without value I wish to set rc=Y. This is my default.

This test: if [[...

Hi,
I have this file (filex)
07-11-2003 10:11:12!cccc!ddd!eeeeeeee
07-11-2003 09:11:11!dddd!kkkkk!xxxxxx
09-12-2003 14:18:43!aaaa!bbbbb!cccc

where I need to sort it by date+time in this...

Hi,
I wish to send a mail via ksh using this command:
cat mailfile | mail -s "My Project." gio123bg@hel.com

Is it necessary to configure some file? If yes, in which way? May you explain me...

Hi to all!
I have the necessity to handle errors in my ksh script sending errors via e-mail.

Do you have any idea about this? More exactly I wish optimize this situation using an external...

found that passing (input) values to awk, all work well. For example:
errpt | awk 'BEGIN { errore=0 }
substr($2,1,4) /'ParamData'/ {
....
} ' ParamData=`date +"%m%d"`

Now I wish to obtain...