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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
I'm writing a shell script in AIX and using ksh.
I have a scenario where I have a variable A which stores $B.
so when i echo "$A" it prints $B
But I wish to print value stored in var b ie. \a\dir\res\
I wish to store \a\dir\res\ in a third variable C.
later I want to cd into that path :... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: simpltyansh
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2. Ubuntu
Hi,
There is no "administrator" file in "/var/mail" directory........
can any one tell me what could be the reason for that?...and also how to resolve that???
Thanks,
~Kavi (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: kavi.mogu
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have the following in a shell script
myfilecount=`echo /dir1/dir2/file-sample* | wc -w`
echo "Directory has $myfilecount files"
The output looks like this:
Directory has 540 files
How can I remove the space between "has" and "540" so it looks more normal? Like this:
... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: bbbngowc
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4. Solaris
Hi Guys!
I am facing Problem with SVM I mention the problem below:
I have Sunfire V210 machine and the partitions are as follows:
Part Tag Flag Cylinders Size Blocks
0 root wm 0 - 6134 29.77GB (6135/0/0) 62429760
1 swap wu ... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: sensation
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
I seem to be fighting bash's shell expansions..
I set this variable:
CMD="export MVAR=\"1 2 3\""
if I try to run it, it is clear the shell is parsing along the spaces of the contents of MYVAR:
> $CMD
+ export 'MYVAR="1' 2 '3"'
+ MYVAR='"1'
-bash: export: `2': not a valid identifier... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: bbw
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have a test.txt and would like to put in a different file but while putting in the other file, blank spaces are missing.
$ indicates blank spaces
filename: test.txt:
USA$$$840$$$$
Desired output
USA$$$840$$$$
Current output as per the following code.
while read j;
do... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: techmoris
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello all,
I am having difficulties writing an ftp script to retrieve a file via get using a variable name to pass the file name.
I know the name of the file I am going to retrieve, this file name has embedded spaces and punctuation in the name itself.
If I interactively use the get and I... (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: gio001
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Greetings,
I've visited this forums for a long time and normally got an right answer but this time my problem doesn't seem to go away. What I'm trying to do is the following:
VAR="\n\nline1\nline2\nline3\nline4\nline5\nline6\nline7\n\n"
(The count of newlines is varying!)
If I echo this i... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: ph1l
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi!
I strated to script since 1 month and I don't have much expirience but this thing here is strange
I have a script where I want to store a svn command in a var to check it later
so it's like this
#!/bin/sh
list=`ssh itadmin@192.168.1.200 "ls /home/svn"` # this stores the list of... (13 Replies)
Discussion started by: ruben.rodrigues
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I am reading a file and copying selected lines from the file into another using echo.
For eg:
while read line
do
if ((some logic to determine whether I need to copy the current line to another file))
then
echo $line > tempfile
fi
done<srcfile
The problem I have is the data in the file... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: prathima
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