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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I tried to look up the issue i'm experiencing, but i'm confused what's wrong with my script.
After executing the script I'm getting the following error
expr: non-numeric argument
syntax error on line 1, teletype
After some research, it seems that the problem relates to bc.
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Greetings!
I'm trying to get dpkg to just completely extract a multi-part *.deb archive set into a single folder called "output". Simple?
Hmmmm....
dpkg --noforce --unpack *.deb /output/Console after ops:
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
I'm trying to write a simple if statement in TCSH and I honestly can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. I've played around with all sorts of permutations of syntax.
if ($DESKTOP_SESSION == "kde") then
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4. Homework & Coursework Questions
Hi All,
As per my knowledge in unix, my code looks fine. But still I am getting error (expr:syntax error). Please help me to resolve this error.
Script :
PRE_LBNO=0
PRE_DATE=0
TOT_PAY=0
TOT_REM=0
TOTAL=1
for Record_Type in `cut -c 1 Inputt.dat`
do
if ;
then
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello all. Need a bit of help...
I have :
previous_tmp0=`cat tmp0.txt`
previous_tmp1=`cat tmp1.txt`
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previous_tmp3=`cat tmp3.txt`
previous_tmp4=`cat tmp4.txt`
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
I'm writing a shell script in KSH, where I want to store the filename, total record count and actual record count of all the source files. The source files reside in 4 different sub-folders under the same root folder.
Below is code:
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi All,
This is a piece of code from one of my scripts:
t1=`cat temp3.21447 | grep WEALTHTOUC_TRANS_20100409_233127.txt.txt.TRG | awk '{print $3}' | cut -c1-5`
t2=`cat temp3.21447 | grep WEALTHTOUC_TRANS_20100409_233127.txt.txt.TRG | awk '{print $5}' | cut -c1-5`
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
hello to everyone,
i am writing a shell script in unix and i use the following command:
lnum= cut -f 1 -d : aa
passline=`expr $lnum + 1`
echo "$passline"
with the following command i get the value that is stored in the first field of the file "aa" and i save it in the variable "lnum". i am... (2 Replies)
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
HELLO i have a problem i need to do this equation:
final_result=*1.5. I am using expr like this:
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
i want to get a substring from a string and used such shell script:
var_year=`expr substr "07132006" 5 4`
echo $var_year
but i got such error message: expr: syntax error. why?
Note: Kshell used on solaris 8. :confused: (5 Replies)
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