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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
In the kornshell you can get the length of a string with
$ x=abc
$ print ${#x}
3
If the current locale is a multibyte locale, like de_AT.UTF-8, you get the length of the string in bytes, not characters:
$ x=für
$ print ${#x}
4
Is there an easy way to get the length of a... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: hergp
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
This should be really simple but I can't figure it out. :wall:
Whats the command to find the operating system version thats running.
I need to know if the node my script gets run on is HP-UX or linux or AIX or Oracle (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: Blogger11
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
So Here is my code
cd $cer_mgr
table='hostname'
environment='echo $environment'
cat mq_$table_$environment_startup.ksh
I'm trying to make the results of the command "hostname" into a variable so that i can use it in my cat command. Well what I have is not working. So how do I use that... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: Blogger11
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a script right now that I run a command which outputs just one word to a file. Well I need to grab that value and use it in another line of code so...
touch oraclesid.txt
echo $ORACLE_SID > oraclesid.txt
#grab that value
sqlplus v500/v500@<value>
how do I grab that value from the... (6 Replies)
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
HI,
Requirement: I need to pass space between argument value for the paramter "GPG_PUBLIC_UID" but whenever i use single quotes or double quotes while supplying value for the arguments to the script, i see the value of the field "GPG_PUBLIC_UID" is getting splitted and my script fails to... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: reachaysh
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I'm a novice at programming and need some help with a kornshell script I've been writting.
I have an inputdirectory with all my .shp files. In my input directory the shapefiles are named XXXX_original.shp, XXXX_UPDATE.shp ect.
In my .ksh script I have created a for loop which... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: beery
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi All
can anyone help me with this, Im new to kornshell scripting and is trying to get the next weekday to a variable:
strDate=%date '+%Y%m%d' // YYYYMMDD
strNewDate= :confused:
// assuming that current date is 20050812 (friday) then strNewDate will get 20050815 (monday) or if... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: rs_f01
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
I need a KornShell script that will, among all the users currently logged on to the system, find a slot of one hour that contains the most number of users. I know how to list all the users currently logged on but how do I do anything with the times that are listed? Please help, thanks. (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: ckrieger1
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9. Programming
Hello,
I'm currently doing some programming using the Kornshell environment. I have just been on a Unix course where our instructor gave us some coding examples. I am using one of these examples to solve a few problems.
However, the code examples use a function called 'convdate' to convert a... (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: nezster
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I've been asked to upgrade from Kornshell 88 to Kornshell 93 on a Solaris 7 box. Since my experience with Unix is limited can anyone point me in the right direction? Specifically, where can I get the files that I need to do the upgrade? Thanks. (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: Ask Me
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