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1. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
Hi,
I am running a shell script that has to verify a password with an if statement. The password has an @ in it. I am having problems getting the if statement to test for the password. The @ causes problem. I tried the standard backslash escape but it did not work for me.
How can I do it?
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2. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
Hello Guys,
I am trying scp few file within if statement, but getting error, can someone please help to understand, what mistake I am making ?
if && ] ;
then
echo " Files transferred to Log servers successfully. "
else
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
I wish to check two conditions inside the if statement
Condition 1: The two file contents should be identical // using cmp command for this.
Condition 2: The two filenames should NOT be the same.
This is what i did in vain.
if ]; then
where entry1 and entry2 are
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
I have a simple problem .
I am pulling the file from a remote server througha simple file transfer protocal (ftp ).
But I wanted to check before pulling the file ,whether the file is being written or in use by some other process and if so i dont want to pull the file and wait for... (1 Reply)
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
This is what I have so far
grep -lir "some text" *
I need to check all files on the system for this text, if the text is found I need to change the file permissions so only ROOT has read and write access.
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
If i run below copy command, it works absolutely fine,
/opt/csw/bin/scp axetlxyz01:/opt/data/test/QURIES* ./input
I want to make the above line better, by adding an IF statement, want to check if there is any file exists with name QURIES*.* then i need to copy that.
if
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
Am trying to execute certain commands if the condition satisfied, but i feel i am making some mistakes in the usage of if statement
here is the code
#!/bin/ksh
SIZE=$(ls -ltr /aemu/ws/DN.txt | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f 5)
filename=`TZ=CST+24 date +%Y%m%d`
ZERO=0
if
then
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I'm trying to write a bit of code that will check if a file exists and then archives the file
Im trying to use the following if statement without success..
if
then
mv filename archive/filename
else
echo "no filename exists"
fi
Should the file name be... (3 Replies)
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I was wondering if it possible to get the path of a variable and compare that to something. Basically I want to write a script that checks if my $JAVA_HOME is correct and if not then it sets it. So far I have...
if ]
then
export JAVA_HOME='/pathhere'
echo JAVA_HOME='/pathhere'
fi
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
this statement "Be sure to have /usr/bin before /usr/local/bin in your $PATH" is because, if u have any files in bin directory, /usr/local/bin will be the first place to look at instead of /usr/bin. BUT, /usr/local/bin has one more descending directory to go , therefore /usr/bin has to come before... (2 Replies)
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