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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am using a bash script to perform some automated maintenance on files in a directory. When I run the script using $sh -x script.sh <directory> the script works fine. It sets the variable to the oldest file, and continues on. However when I run the script like this $./script.sh <directory>, it... (5 Replies)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am working within a while loop and i am trying to set a variable that will read out each count of the files. the problem is the count variable i have set up gives me a total and not the individual count of each file. in the data area there is 4 abc.dat and 1 def.dat.
how can i do this???
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3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
In my script, I have the following command....
du -sk `ls -ltd sales12|awk '{print $11}'`|awk '{print $1}'
it returns the value
383283
I want to modify my script to capture that value into a variable. So, I try doing the following...
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
How do you set a varible with information that contains a string and also another variable? For example:
subject="Attention: $name / This $type needs your attention"
The $xxxx are of course other variables that I instantiated earlier. Is it like Java where you have to use double quotes and... (1 Reply)
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi guys,
I've been trying to get this part of my script to work for ages and now it's getting me annoyed!! So i thought a fresh group of eyes could see where i'm going wrong!
The idea is getting a directory and all its files moved to a temp folder, but similar to the rm -ir command where it... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: olimiles
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
L=0
cat test.sh | while read line
do
L='expr $1 + 1'
echo $L
done
echo $l
>>> the echo $L at the end produces 0 but i actually want it to produce the number of lines - any idea why this is happening? (16 Replies)
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
How would I modify the time of a directory? The touch command appears to only work on files and I searched through the threads looking for an example on dealing with directories.
I have a directory that has a recent date, but none of the files within the directory are recent. I'd like to set... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: jgordon
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I want to set a variable to be any number of dashes. Rather than doing the following:
MYVAR="------------------"
I'd like to be able to set the variable to, say, 80 dashes but don't want to have to count 80 dashes. Is there a way to do this? (2 Replies)
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9. Programming
I am trying to install GCC-3.1.1 on an SGI Indigo2. I already have MIPSpro 7.2.1 installed. However, when I try to configure GCC-3.1.1, I get the message "cc ERROR: cc -o conftest -g failed, You must set the environment variable CC to a working compiler."
What is the name of the MIPSpro c++... (1 Reply)
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I am trying to install GCC-3.1.1 on an SGI Indigo2. I already have MIPSpro 7.2.1 installed. However, when I try to configure GCC-3.1.1, I get the message "cc ERROR: cc -o conftest -g failed, You must set the environment variable CC to a working compiler."
What is the name of the MIPSpro c++... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: mdbanas
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