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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
in the .profile i have
alias jh="cd /var/jdk"What should i write in my unix shell script to use jh and move to /var/jdk directory ?
I tried the following in myscript.sh
jh
$jh
$(jh)but none works !! (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: mohtashims
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
It doesn't have effect in script but it works on the terminal
root@server:/opt/kvm/usecases/logs# alias echo='echo -e'
root@server:/opt/kvm/usecases/logs# echo "xxxx\n"
xxxx
root@server:/opt/kvm/usecases/logs# cat xx.sh
#!/bin/bash
alias echo='echo -n'
echo "sssf \n"
... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: yanglei_fage
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3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
If one:
$ find -name 'some expression' -type f > newfile
and then subsequently wants to create an alias file from each pathname the find command retrieved and the > placed within 'newfile', how would one do this? Ideally, the newly created alias files would all be in one directory.
I am... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: Alexander4444
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
What would cause a script to work under one user account and not another? Here's an example of what I'm referring to.
Here's a simple script. Let's put it in a file called “thescript”.
#! /bin/bash
alias a='echo hello world'
a
Here are the results when this script is executed logged in... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: sszd
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5. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Hi gurus,
Does anyone have a df script/alias that is sort of "universal"?
Just getting frustrated to use bdf for HP-UX, df -h for Linux and Solaris, df -G/g (???) for AIX ... and to make things even worse, some are NFS mount points or with long logical volume name and it extends over two (2)... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: newbie_01
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I am using the below command to kill the firefox process i have opened in Redhat 5.
ps -ef|grep fire|grep -v grep|awk '{print $2}'|xargs kill -9
If i execute the above command in terminal it works good and kills session.
but when i use alias for that it is not working.
alias... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: nokiak810
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7. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
How can I embed alias command inside the unix script?
Script:
echo "...."
...
...
alias aa=/usr/bin/telnet
...
...The above script is not working.
If I type aa hostname in the command prompt 'TELNET' terminal is not opening.
Regards,... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: sharif
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
hi all,
In my perl script, I need to know the command alias name to make my program flexible. I tried many methods like system("alias cmd"), `alias cmd`, use shell qw,etc. But no one could recognize the built in command alias. If I use `which cmd`, it would look for the command based on... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: ktmchen
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am sure this is a newbie question, but I have searched everywhere and cannot find an answer.
My situation is that due security constraints, I cannot modify my .profile file. I have a set of fairly common things that would normally go in the .profile, like setting up alias assignments and... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: SpringRubber
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
as you can guess, I'm a newb here, and to shell scripting. I use Linux(CentOS) at home and want to get into scritping. I was creating some aliases on a Laptop the other day, and thought, god this is tedious, and then I thought, heck, why not use it as a 1st script project. Please see... (3 Replies)
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