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1. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
I am trying to code an if statement that accepts two parameters and see if those parameters are in another file called teledir.txt. If it already exists in the file, it is to say "Entry Exists". If not, I add it to the file and say "Entry Added". This is the code I have so far:
if ; then
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2. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
I'm new with 'sed' and for sure something still I don't understand yet with it. If you see my output on ">Output..." portion, the new directory still on "source_dir" instead of "dest_dir". You may disregard for the "tar" part, this is just a test script, just for me to understand 'sed' using the... (3 Replies)
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3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
Sorry for a dummy question I believe. I am just wanting to know how do I assign a default $1 argument if one is not provided.
At the moment, I am doing something like below:
arg1="${1:-foo}"And then I check $arg1 in case/esac. I am just wondering if there is a way for me to simply do... (3 Replies)
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have a script which will be executed using the below command,
bin/nutch crawl urls -dir /data/test/
bin/nutch - Script file
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The above script should executed from a shell script named test.sh. I have the below code to execute... (2 Replies)
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
I have one small requirment...
I have prepared one script. we have to pass two possitional parameters to the script. What I want to do is if the parameters are not passed then i dont want the script to start the process...
For ex:
$ ./a.sh parm1 parm2
#Here, it can start... (7 Replies)
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Can someone tell me in more layman's terms what positional parameters are and give a good example? My book again is confusing me. :confused: (1 Reply)
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have a script that processes the positional parameters provided on the command line, or - if none are provided - uses some defaults instead.
I've currently got it written as follows, which works like a charm, but I was wondering if there is a different/other/better/... way of doing... (2 Replies)
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I need to get file names from commandline arguments, it may be any no of arguements, Using for loop i got but how do i display it, bcoz $i will give the number i is assigned $$i is not working either $($i), i need the names of the files got in the arguement (2 Replies)
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hello,
I am using the Bourne shell.
I am trying to understand the concept of positional parameters.
I do understand that positional parameters:
1. Are initialized by shell
2. Have a max of 9 parameters ($1 to $9)
3. Have no limit on the number of arguments
4. Can be rearranged... (15 Replies)
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
HPUX11.0/Korn Shell
I have an old script that takes in a series of arguments when its called. The script is really more of a common set of functions that gets called by other scripts as needed. I have been asked to make this into a menu driven script to rollout to app support for their use during... (2 Replies)
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