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Hey ZB,
that works like a charm.
using " instead of ' solved my issue.

Thanks.

--Venkat.

Folks,
I am trying to put in a sed command in my script to update the curent time value. It throws me syntax error..but If i execute the same command with the value substituted from outside, it...

Thanks guys.

Murphy, yes..better I should code my expect script correct.
Below is the peace of code @ the end of my .exp script.

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expect "*Next\]>...

Thanks Cameron.
But the problem is my script is not coming out of that expect call.
exit inside expect is not working for me.

I just want to comeout of expect call after 2 mins and proceed...

Folks,
In shell script, can I mention a timeout for a command execution, afterwhich I want to exit from that particular line and proceed furthur.

I have part of my script as below:...

Thanks Portor.

Yes, I see different "cksum" for 2 files. but still I am not understanding why they r differing though the content is same?

Any more clues?

Folks,
I am Diff'ing 2 identical files..and the result is, it shows all the lines from 2 files (saying nothing is being matched).

If I copy the content from 1 of the file and paste in a newly...

Wow..this is another cool feature..I tried it now and works.

Thanks radoulov.
So, then we can use any seperator in Sed?

Thx Portor.
I am prefixing it with \ now.
Please note that need to prefix with 2 slashes.

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bash-2.05$ export VAL=\\/home\\/venkat
bash-2.05$ echo $VAL...

Folks,
I've been trying to use the ENV variable with slashes(/) in its value inside the sed substitution..

Sed 's/myval/'$MYVAL'/' file1 >> file.tmp

If MYVAL=<sometext>, it works.
if...

Thanks Vino..

Could u pls give me ur mail-id (either office / personel).

Vino,
Then we ll filter it out using 1 more grep level as below.

pstree -p 3887 | grep -o '([0-9]*)'|grep -o '[0-9]\{1,5\}'|xargs kill -9


I think above one should be ok to filter out that...

Thx Vino..

Vino,
Ur command simply worked well..
Thanks a lot.

I just put in a simple way.

pstree -p <pid>|grep -o '[0-9]\{2,5\}' | xargs kill -9

(pid : pid of ur start script)

u...

Let me make it clear.

I want 2 avoid manullly picking up those ids and killing.

if its less,manual is ok.

but is its more (say > 20), it takes bit time time.right?

instead we can process...

Vino,
Thx for the quick reply.
pstree lists all the pids of sub processes with pnames.

anyhow,we need 2 again manually pick-up those pids and kill.right?

after pstree...we can procees that...

Dear Unix Gurus,
Here is my query.
If i start a script,it inturn calls many other scripts ..and most of them continue to run in parallel.

Suppose,if i want to stop my script for some...