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1. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
I am trying to pass a second argument like so:
if ] then
export ARG2=$2
else
message "Second argument not specified: USAGE - $PROGRAM_NAME ARG1 ARG2"
checkerror -e 2 -m "Please specify if it is a history or weekly (H or W) extract in the 2nd argument"
fi
however, it always goes... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: MIA651
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi
I have a script which am trying to pass an argument which am trying to call using $1 but its not taking the value inside the if loop as it showing the error as if: Empty if..
Any help on this will be helpful.
#!/usr/bin/csh
echo $1
if ('$1' == "pp")
then
echo "Printing $1"
endif (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: rogerben
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
How to pass the alphabet character as a argument in case and in if block?
ex:
c=$1
if a-z ]]
then
echo "alphabet"
case $1 in
a-z) echo "the value is a alphabet"
edit by bakunin: please use CODE-tags. We REALLY mean it. (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: Roozo
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have a script that is scheduled with cron and runs every night. The cron part looks like this:
00 20 * * 0,1,2,3,4,5,6 /usr/local/bin/BACKUP TBTARM HOT DELETE
My issue is with the 3rd parameter. Somewhere in the script, i want to tell the script to delete some files if the 3rd... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: dollypee
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all:
I'm trying to pass an argument to a command but it's being difficult.
#!/bin/bash
set -xv
if ; then
echo "More than 1 argument entered"
echo "Please enter a month using 3 character names, ie, Jan, Mar, Apr, Dec" && exit 1
fi
if ; then
echo "Please enter a month using... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: raggmopp
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
hi,
I want to implement some function to perform following task
if ; then
$TEXT = "Data_0"
else
$TEXT = $1
fi
if ; then
$Lines = 45
else
$Lines = $2
fi
Kindly suggest,
thanks (11 Replies)
Discussion started by: nrjrasaxena
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi Folks
I have got to the point where I can specify the arguments but how to pass an option is still mystery to me. Example:
temp.csh a b c d
set temp1 = $argv
set temp2 = $argv
set temp3 = $argv
echo $temp1
a
echo $temp2
b
echo $temp3
c d
I WANT:
temp.csh a b c d -S 1
set temp1... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: dixits
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
i have script like below..
echo "1) first option"
echo ""
echo "2) second option"
echo ""
echo "*) please enter the correct option"
read select
case $select in
1) echo "first option selected"
;;
2) echo "second option selected"
;;
*) echo "please enter the correct... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: Shahul
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
i'm trying to pass a numerical argument with function xyz to print specfic lines of filename, but my 'awk' syntax is incorrect.
ie
xyx 3 (prints the 3rd line, separated by ':' of filename)
function xyz() {
arg1=$1
cat filename | awk -F: -v x=$arg1 '{print $x}'
}
any ideas? (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: prkfriryce
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10. Programming
#include <stdio.h>
#include <pthread.h>
#define NUM_THREADS 4
/* function to be executed by the new thread*/
void *PrintHello(void * threadid)
{
printf("\n %3d:Hello World!\n",threadid);
pthread_exit(NULL);
}
int main(int argc, char * argv)
{
int *taskids;
int... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: narom
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