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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
My goal is to create a script that will check if in a test or production environment. I wrote this script to check $host variable to check which server I'm on but this script does not work.
if
then
BASE=/home/fmtest; export BASE
else
BASE=/home/fmprod; export BASE
fi
... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: Bperl1967
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
From a shell script I'm trying to remove the first two files of whats returned from the head -2 command so I tried piping it to xargs rm -f but I can't get it to work.
How do I remove the files from the head command?
ls -al *clit* *servr* |sort -t_ -nk2 | head -2 |xargs rm -f (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: Bperl1967
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3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I have a ksh shell script that accesses databases to drop and create tables and the script also creates text files.
This shell script is accessed thru a java application that i would like to turn multi-user, but the only way that i can do that is if I can figure out a way to lock the shell... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: ndedhia1
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Anyone know how to check a filename that contains a date and compare whiich file is older using a ksh shell script? The filename looks like aaaaa_20110615 (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: Bperl1967
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
hi team,
i have a file, which contains only variable and its value
param.ksh
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export A=123
export B=345
export C=567
export D=OPLI
export E=OL89PO
From shell script, i am invoking this file and use the value of this variable. Now there are 5 variable in above file. Before i... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: ace_friends22
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am newbie in UNIX, so please excuse me for the stupid question.:)
Here is a problem:
I created ksh script where the part of the functionality include an opening of a second session with another shell process "runrep"(runrep is a custom reporting shell designed by Advent Geneva).
When I run my... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: alexstar
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am using /usr/bin/ksh in AIX
I am reading the values of $dbname, $dbatmpdir/dbdir.$$, and $scope from a different file
All I have to do is check if $dbname exists in file $dbatmpdir/dbdir.$$ and
$scope should have a value either 'TABLE' or 'SCHEMA'.
When I execute the following code. I am... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: tenderfoot
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
Im a beginner. Im writing a ksh script with awk. Is it possible to assign the output of the awk to a shell variable?
Like,
shell_variable= awk '$1 == "shell" {abc= $2 }' /tmp/cust_det
echo $shell_variable
Please excuse my ignorance. Thanks in advance. (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: Nic_writes
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
Just like to ask if it is possible to do the following:
1. Have a shell script that calls ssh username@destinationhost
2. Upon successful verification, we ssh into the destination host and automatically use ksh to run a shell script that resides in the destination host. (Hopefully no... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: rockysfr
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
Greetings all,
I'm pretty new to the use of mailx, having been using mutt most of the time. I'm interested to know how I can use mailx within a shell script to send out a formatted email with the following criterion:
1. My recipient's address is abcdef1000@gmail.com
2. The message body is... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: rockysfr
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