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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
Ubuntu server 11.10
can anybody help what is problem with my shell script?
#!/bin/bash
#script to find out currently logged on user is root or not.
if ]
then
echo "You are super"
else
echo "You are awesome!"
fi
When I run script, I get following output
./uid: line 3:
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a file which contains a list of paths separated by a new line character.
e.g
/some/path/to/a/file.png
/some/path to/another/file.jpeg
/some path/to yet/another/file
Notice that these paths may contain metacharacters, the spaces for example are also not escaped.
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi folks,
I've list of LDAP records in this format:
cat cmmac.export.tmp2
dn: deviceId=0a92746a54tbmd34b05758900131136a506,ou=devices,ou=customer,ou=nl,o=upc
cmmac: 00:13:11:36:a5:06
dn: deviceId=0a92746a62pbms4662299650015961cfa23,ou=devices,ou=customer,ou=nl,o=upc
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
hi,,
i have perl scipt with line :
system('./try.sh $t $d $m');
in shell scipt try.sh i have the line:
echo $1
its not printing value of $t that i hav passed..y is it so..i am running it from apache web server (2 Replies)
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
I'm having a strange problem with escaping double-quotes. I have a script that looks like this:
#!/bin/bash
for HOST in `cat $INFILE | grep -v ^#`
do
for VFILER in `some_command`
do
echo " "
echo -e '\E
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I did the below.
$ print "\\n"
$
I am curious, why does \\n give two new lines? I would have thought that the first \ would escape the second \, and so we'd get \n printed. But we didn't.
Any ideas?
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I am using the KSH shell. I am facing a problem of escaping apostrophe('), that is occuring in a variable.
I used the following command, but in vain
item=`echo $item|sed 's/'/\'/g'`
this code replaces the occurance of ' in an xml file to apostrophe(') symbol.
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
hi there. i have a simple bash script that reads a word from a text file
one at a time, and if a '*' character is encountered, it prints a message.
however it doesn't work as i expected. :o what am i doing wrong here?
thanks very much for the help :)
for word in `cat $DOC`
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
When trying to escape special character * - it doesn't seem to work. In korn shell trying to store a local variable as follows
sample=test*
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10. Solaris
When trying to escape special character * - it doesn't seem to work. In korn shell trying to store a local variable as follows
sample=test*
echo $sample - gets all the file names starting with test* , instead i want to literally store the value test* into a variable. I tried escaping with \, with... (1 Reply)
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