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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
I want to run a script written in ksh but my default shell is bash as root e.g in the script it has #!/bin/ksh
i have gone into /etc/passwd to change it from :/bin/bash to /bin/ksh
but still giving me an error when running scripts such as ./installer
-bash: ./installer: /bin/ksh:... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: DOkuwa
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello All,
I am using awk with html options to format and send output to another file.
Below command works fine, no issues.
awk 'BEGIN{print "<table border="1" width="1000" >"} {print "<tr>";for(i=1;i<=NF;i++)print "<td>" $i"</td>";print "</tr>"} END
{print "</table>"}' ${TMPLOGFILE1} >>... (0 Replies)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a function in bash that takes arguments. does IFS work in a function or does it apply only to the main script? (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: kristinu
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4. HP-UX
According to multiple sources you should not change the default shell to bash for the root user because it will make the system unbootable.
Is there a safe way to launch bash for root when logging in? Perhaps I can edit /etc/profile or add it to a startup script somewhere? (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: bstring
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5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hello, I have a situation where I want to change a line of text in multiple files, but the problem is that I want to change the text to something unique for each file.
For example, let's say I have five files named bob.txt, joe.txt, john.txt, tom.txt, and zach.txt. Each of these files has a... (5 Replies)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello!
I need to write a bash script for my university classes, and I came up with an idea of a program that would test the speed of typing - there is some random text that you have to rewrite, and the script measures time, number of mistakes etc. The text would be visible on the screen all... (3 Replies)
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
How can I change the cron entries only for ABC and XYZ from dosomething_1.0.sh to nowchanged_2.0 using a bash script ?
Any help will be appreciated.
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# ABC
00,05,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * /mydir/dosomething_1.0.sh 1>/dev/null 2>&1
#
#
##
# DEF... (4 Replies)
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
I want to run some unix commands on one file..let say if i change the name and that name of file is present already. I dnt want to change that presnt file but instead of that make another one with different name
eg.. usa.txt if it is there make usa.txt.1 something like that
Also one more... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: Learnerabc
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi guys,
I am converting a bash script to perl. I need lots of help and pointers on how to make the script work. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Here is what I have:
#!/usr/bin/perl
#Decrypt Files
$dir = "/usr/bin/gpg;
opendir(PGP_DIR, $dir) || die "can't opendir $dir: $!";... (3 Replies)
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi all,
I have written one script. If i run the script, particular text in that script needs to be displayed in color.how this could be done?any commands r there to change the colour of the text while running the script?
Ur help is appreciated !!!
Thanx in Advance,
Sona. (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: Sona
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