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1. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
Hello All,
Hope you're doing well !
I am trying below command to be passed in a shell script, header_date_14 is a variable and $1 is the name of a file I intend to pass as a command line argument, however command line argument is not being accepted.
header_date_14=$(m_dump... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: ektubbe
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
hi,
I have been trying to acheive the following task for a while now, but failed.. Need help, experts please help!
This is what I am trying to do:
- I am writing to a flat file the name of the source to be copied and the destination path as to where it is to be copied to.
Sample flat file:... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: abdulhusein
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I am trying to do the following thing
var='date'
$var
Above command substitutes date for and in turn runs the date command and i am getting the todays date value.
I am trying to do the same thing as following, but facing some problems,
unique_host_pro="sed -e ' /#/d'... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: gvinayagam
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4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi all,
The below command tries to copy ".tgz" instead of "hello_test.tgz" -- It seems as if the underscore gets in the way. I tried with different ways of using quotes, with no luck, unfortunately...it's probably very simple, but may I ask how this would be done:
How would the below be... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: chatguy
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
For example I have variable like below
echo $OUTPUT
/some/path/`uname -n`
when I try to use the variable OUTPUT like below
cd $OUTPUT or cd ${OUTPUT}
I am getting bad substituion error message
$ cd $OUTPUT
ksh: cd: bad substitution
$ cd ${OUTPUT}
ksh: cd: bad substitution
... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: rajukv
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
I want to instert Category:XXXXX into the 2. line
something like this should work, but I have somewhere the wrong sytanx. something with the linebreak goes wrong:
sed "2i\\${n}Category:$cat\n"
Sample:
Titel Blahh Blahh abllk sdhsd sjdhf
Blahh Blah Blahh
Blahh
Should look like... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: lowmaster
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Greetings folks
I'm using ksh on aix and have gone around and around trying to use a variable as a variable name. I would like to set a variable like this...
ym200702="01 02 05 06 07 08 09 12 13 14 15 16 19 20 21 22 23 26 27 28"
and then check to see if the variable has value...
if ];... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: Smoker
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have been working on a script that executes on a number of different operating systems. As a result I was trying to set a variable or perhaps variable array depending on the OS. I tried the following using eval and such but so far have not had any luck. Is there a way to do something like the... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: scotbuff
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I'm having an issue when I export within my program. I'm getting the variable name, not the variable value. I have a configuration file (config.txt) that has the values of the variables set as so:
set -a
export ARCHIVEPOSourceDir="/interfaces/po/log /interfaces/po/data"
export... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: ParNone
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
This is what I tried:
vara=${varb}_count
(( vara += 1 ))
Thanks for help (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: pa3be
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