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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am trying to allow a user to enter in text and then store that text in a variable $gene to run in an awk command in which those values are used to run some calculations. I am getting syntax errors however, when I try. Thank you :).
The awk runs great if it is a pre-defined file that is used,... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: cmccabe
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2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
May i please know why is it printing the script name for $0 when i pass those parameters to function.
#!/bin/bash -x
usage()
{
echo "In Usage Function"
echo $0
echo $1
echo $2
}
echo "printing first time"
echo $0
echo $1
echo $2
usage $0 $1 $2
Output: (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Ariean
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
I have to insert 2 values to a text file in specific places. I have been able to extract each variable value via a script but am not able to send these variable values to the text file.
Pasted is the script for extracting the variable values:
for i in `ls -1` ... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: danish0909
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a shell program that calls another shell program
the following code works
. chkTimeFormat.sh "10/9/12 17:51:19:783."|read c
but when I am passing the the time in a variable like in the code below, the shell chkTimeFormat.sh is not returning proper value
time="10/9/12... (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: swayam123
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Here is a sample script demonstrating the issue
x() {
echo "foo"
a=1
}
## the value of $a is 1
a=0
x
echo $a
## the value of $a stays 0
a=0
x|sed "s/foo/bar/"
echo $a
Result:
foo
1 (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: pbmarvin56
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi
I am new to this Scripting process and would like to know How can i write a ksh script that will call other ksh scripts and write the output to a file and/or email.
For example
-------
Script ABC
-------
a.ksh
b.ksh
c.ksh
I need to call all three scripts execute them and... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: pacifican
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I am trying to search a log for a particluar pattern listing the total # of occurences in the end.
I thought using a shell script for input then calling awk to search for the paramters specified. I want the script to be usable acorss envs.
Code:
#! /usr/bin/bash
# get the variables... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: wawa44oz
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
In awk in can pass input to a command like this
echo "1 2" | awk '{p=$1+$2;print v}'or I can use v option to pass input to awk command
In the similar way How can I pass input to a perl command. For example :
perl -pi -e 'if ( $. == 2 ) {print "Hello\n" }' input.txtIn the above... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: john_noble
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi, i need help passing variables to sed using ksh.
My goal is to get particular data from log files.
first i put a mark to the log files.
echo "TEST_"`date + %m_%d_%Y_%T"` >markFile
this will produce a 'markFile' which contain text like this
TEST_06_01_2009_21:55:09
then i put the mark... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: d.anggrianto
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I'm trying to work on the script given below
#!/bin/ksh -x
pfile()
{
echo "$1"
}
touch smp19
echo "Hi" > smp19
result=$(pfile $smp19)
echo $result
As highlighted , when i pass $smp19 as parameter ,it does not display the output.However when i try giving "Hi" instead... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Sheema
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