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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
updateEnvironmentField() {
linewithoutquotes=`echo $LINE | tr -d '"'`
b()
}
I want to pass variable named $linewithoutquotes to another method called b(), which is called from updateEnvironmentField() method. How to do the above requirement with shell script (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: pottic
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello All,
I would like to ask help from you on how to pass variable value from a function that has been called inside the function. I have created below and
put the variables in " ". Is there another way I can do this? Thank you in advance.
readtasklist() {
while read -r mod ver... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: aderamos12
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I use Korn Shell. Searched Forum and modified the way the file is input to the while loop, but still the variable does not seem to be retaining the final count.
while read name
do
Tmp=`echo $name | awk '{print $9 }'`
Count=`cat $Tmp | wc -l`... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: justchill
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello again :)
Am currently trying to write a function which will delete a record from a file.
The code currently looks as such:
function deleteRecord() {
clear
read -p "Please enter the ID of the record you wish to remove: " strID
... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: U_C_Dispatj
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5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hey folks,
I'm pretty new to unix programming. I was trying to get something to work but it's not doing what I expected.
#!/bin/ksh
. ./functions.sh
STRING=function_1
FUNCTION="$STRING"
RETURN=eval $FUNCTION
echo "value of $FUNCTION function is: $RETURN"
All i'm... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: Irrational
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi ,
I have three funcions f1, f2 and f3 .
f1 calls f2 and f2 calls f3 .
I have a global variable "period" which i want to pass to f3 .
Can i pass the variable directly in the definition of f3 ?
Pls help .
sars (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: sars
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I would like to know how to pass a variable inside a variable to a function.
sample code below
--------------
for x in 1 9
do
check_null $C$x ##call function to check if the value is null
if
then
echo "line number:$var_cnt,... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: KingVikram
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I am trying to sum up numbered columns and in order to tidy up the program I have wrote a function to do the adding of some numbers. I have a problem though with passing a variable to the function in the UNIX bash shell. The function only gives the first number in the variable list and does... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: Knotty
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Bourne shell
Solaris
I'm trying to set a flag to perform an action only when data is found. So I initialize the flag with:
X=0
Then I read the data:
if ; then
while read a b c
do
X=1
done < ${inputFile}
fi
The problem is that X will be set to 1 inside the while loop but when... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: gillbates
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
Here's is an example of what I want to do:
var1="Horse "
var2="Cat "
var3="Fish "
for animals in "$var1" "$var2" "$var3"
do
set $animals
pet=$1
## Ok, now I want to get the values of $pet, but
## I want to retain the full length it was... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: app4dxh
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