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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am writing a code like this in KSH .
#!/bin/ksh
echo is this SQL query ? yes or no
read answer
case $answer in
yes|Yes|y)
echo got a positive answer
;;
no|n)
echo got a 'no'
;;
esac
Here after ... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: talashil
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2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi all,
The below command tries to copy ".tgz" instead of "hello_test.tgz" -- It seems as if the underscore gets in the way. I tried with different ways of using quotes, with no luck, unfortunately...it's probably very simple, but may I ask how this would be done:
How would the below be... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: chatguy
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
I have came across the following line in a script and was not able to interpret the meaning despite searching in the web for answer, my guess is that it seems like a comment to me stating if 0 then return else exit
============================
: 0 - 999
....
........ (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: dwgi32
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4. AIX
Hi,
I have a strange problem with a AIX server, user are having problem with using du will in their ksh shell, if they switch to sh or bash there is not problem. root account that are using ksh but have not problem with du.
this is the error messages when trying to run du
du: can't find... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: robertngo
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I am looking at a script, and it contains lines like:
if ]
...
This is getting me confused. Why do we need $ before (echo $* | egrep -c 'DG')? Why can't we simply have:
if ]
... i.e. no $ here before the ()...
Thanks.
J (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: JamesByars
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
How can I know if my system has ksh feature?
#!/usr/bin/ksh
Which command we allow me to see? Please advise! (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: bobo
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
New to ksh and had a few questions to see if this is doable in ksh or if I am going to have to call out to a tcl procedure. I have an Ascii file I want to convert to hex then search and remove all hex chars '0A' and then convert back to Ascii. Here is an example of an Ascii file I am... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: hgjdv
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi Folks,
I would just like to know how recursion works in ksh or inside a shell in general. I created the following script, but it works(runs recursively) only for 64 times:
----------------
#! /usr/bin/ksh
displaymessage()
{
echo "displaying count: $cnt "
echo "wait for 1 second..."... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: marlonus999
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
i want to add about 60 printers using a ksh script.
i am having trouble though, i am reading the input from the hosts file and using the lpadmin command to add like so:
lpadmin -p -v /dev/null -m netstandard -o dest=
i want printername and ipaddy to come from the hosts file, i am having... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: BG_JrAdmin
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
Wondering what this line meant, especially the 2>&1 and ${RUN_DIR} parts:
${RUN_DIR}/<filename> 2>&1
Where <filename> is the location and name of a file. (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: CapsuleCorpJX
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