Shell Programming and Scripting

I have over 800 scripts (Korn and Perl) wrote on a Unix platform (Solaris) that I need to covert to a Linux platform (Redhat). All the path's and binaries need review. Are there any tools out there that would simplify or assist me with this conversion?

Hi.

I use a perl script fixin, listed in the perl 4 (Camel) book by O'Reilly for fixing up paths. On the net, this looks like the one I use: http://cars9.uchicago.edu/~ravel/tal...rams/bin/fixin

Try it on a few simple test cases first, of course.

Note that it looks at the shebang line generally, not just perl scripts, so shell scripts, awk scripts, all may be processed.

For example, this script on file b1:

Code:

#!gawk -f
BEGIN   { print " Hello, world." ; exit }

produces an error when run:

Code:

% ./b1
./b1: Command not found.

After we use:

Code:

% fixin b1
Changing b1 to /usr/bin/gawk

we can rerun, and see:

Code:

% ./b1
 Hello, world.

Good luck ... cheers, drl

Yes there are a number of tools available. Do a Web seach for "Solaris Linux Porting Kit" or "Solaris Linux Migration Kit"

The problem I'm having is that the only two Sun to Linux Porting kits (IBM and HP) available on the net require a customer login. Does anyone have the porting kit or the link to download directly? Thanks for the information guys!