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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
An old work friend wrote a script which I've been trying to understand how a section of it currently works and work out how i can add some command line switches which i can use later in the script to append the output depending on the command line arguements.
Currently it works by... (1 Reply)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am trying to code for the addition of a new argument to the command line, the option D to a code that already has ABC (below). When I use make to compile it, it displays: invalid option --D. I did define the global d variable, as well as initialized it inside the main function of the C code. I... (9 Replies)
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3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
The script below fails with the following error messages:
gzip: invalid option -- 'w'
Try `gzip --help' for more information.
mysqldump: Got errno 32 on write
cp: invalid option -- 'w'
Try `cp --help' for more information.
rm: invalid option -- 'w'
Try `rm --help' for more information.
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4. HP-UX
Hi,
I am using below command to get the High CPU Utilization.
top -l 1| awk ‘/CPU usage/ {print $12, $13}’
I am getting below error.
ksh: 1: parameter not set
top: illegal option -- l
Usage: top
Usage: awk ...
Could you please suggest the appropriate solution.
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
To find all the files in your home directory that have been edited in some way since the last tar file, use this command:
find . -newer backup.tar.gz
Is anyone familiar with an older solution?
looking to identify files older then 15mins across several directories.
thanks,
manny (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: mr_manny
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi
I need to use getopt option and I have no idea what it is or how to use it.
I need to use it on this awk script:
awk -F, -v cellid="$1" -v paramval="$2" -v oldfile="$3" -v newfile="$4" '$2==cellid{$3=newvalue}1' OFS="," $3 > $4
I tried reading up on it but I just confuse... (2 Replies)
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
i need to use --alternative option of getopt
for ex . getopt -o a:c: --alternative pw: -- "$@"
if i use like this, i am not getting any output.Please help me how to correct this.i need to have a combination of long and short options.But long options have to begin with - and not... (0 Replies)
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
I am parsing command line options using getopts.
The problem is that mandatory argument options following ":" is taking next option as argument if it is not followed by any argument.
Below is the script:
while getopts :hd:t:s:l:p:f: opt
do
case "$opt" in
-h|-\?)... (2 Replies)
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9. Solaris
I want to figure out what is the reason of error message I have in Solaris 10. Why Solaris 10 dosn't recognize 65535?
ps: 65535 is an invalid non-numeric argument for -p option
usage: ps
'format' is one or more of:
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
scriptname
i have made a script to perform so tasks and i managed to complete the tasks for all the options
the problem i am facing is that i can run the scripts individually but i would like to make it such that it can accept multiple options and give me the appropriate output
e.g.... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: problems
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