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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Can some one please help me with the syntax in shell script for the below :
if $var1 exists in ('val1','val2','val3')
I want to execute a set of commands if the value of var1 variable matches any one of the given string values. Please let me know if there are any other option to go by.
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Discussion started by: Pandee
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi Folks,
Trying to build up a script that will lookup a username invoked as:
./buildscript.sh <username>
This should take <username> and look it up in <username_file> and prepare for further processing. Here is the snippet that isn't working just right:
user=$1
if ]; then
echo... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: gdenton
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
I want to use a variable inside my sql query and below is my script:
#!/bin/ksh
export b="abcd"
a=`sqlplus -s abc/def@ghi <<++
set heading off;
set feedback off;
select xxx from mytable where clmn_nm='$b';
exit;
++`
echo $a
But the output i get is below:
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Discussion started by: Jayaraman
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi guys,
I am trying to check the values i have for two variables.
if && ; then
echo "Success";
fi
Now Test1 can have any Alpha Variable and Count is a integer value.
Even though we have given 'and' Condition, even one condition is sucess, i am getting the Success message.
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Discussion started by: mac4rfree
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I'm new to UNIX, at least shell programming and am having trouble figuring out a problem i'm having. In one section in my nested if statement, i want the program to test if the file does not exist, based on an argument supplied at the command line by the user. What i have is
elif ; then... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: rowlf
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6. 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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Discussion started by: Pablo_beezo
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7. 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...
var1=`du -sk `ls -ltd sales12|awk '{print... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: tumblez
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8. 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)
Discussion started by: briskbaby
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9. 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)
Discussion started by: photh
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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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