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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
I'm having an issue with bash read input when using a case statement.
The script halts and doesn't read the input on the first loop. if I hit enter then the scripts starts to respond as expected. Need some help here.
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi.
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
I'm looking for some help in figuring why my little bit of code will not process any entries other then the first one in my list.
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
hello guys,
i am having the below piece of code
error
()
{
echo"Press y /n"
read ans
case $ans in
y) main;;
n) exit
esac
}
In the abve code, read statement is not working i.e not waiting for user to enter input.
,i tested exit status its 1.
could anyone help me to do this
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
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this is my script #!/bin/ksh
cat temp_file.dat | while read line
do
read test
if ]; then
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else echo "ERROR"
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done
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hey everyone,
I am just trying to figure out how to embed a function in an if statement.
I have the following test script so far:
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SECONDARY=192.168.1.1
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}
if
then
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
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int btRead;
int BUFFSIZE = 512;
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