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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
A lot of my scripting makes use of the 'select' command to create menu driven input. A typical example of how I use it is as:
somevar=''
PS3='Select one: '
while ]; do
select somevar in $(sqlplus -s $dbuser/$dbpw@mydb <<EOF
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi Folks,
I have the below feed file named abc1.txt in which you can see there is a title and below is the respective values in the rows and it is completely pipe delimited file ,.
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a select menu driven script using a case statment and cannot control what happens after a user's input is just <ENTER> or the <SPACEBAR>+<ENTER>. I want it to just hit the "MAIN" function and not redraw the options. I've look everywhere for the answer and am at a loss.
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
PS3="Enter corresponding number and hit enter:"
select DIR in `cat mylist` QUIT
do
if
then
echo "INVALID INPUT"
else
if ; then
my commands .....
else
break
fi
fi
REPLY=''
done
The above will return something like below :
Select from the list of... (4 Replies)
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
Before I give up on using SELECT for my first attempt at creating a menu driven script, can anyone please advise if it is possible to include a line break for PS3, I've tried putting in a \n and it does not work.
Tried for both bash and ksh and both gives the same result. Preference... (3 Replies)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Okay -- I hope I ask this correctly.
I'm working on my little shell script to write vendor names and aliases to files from user input. If a user choose to add to a file, he can do that as well. I'm using a select loop for this function to list all the possible files the user can choose from.... (7 Replies)
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Hi all,
I have a problem with qwk command.
i have to check process status and for that i am using command
prstat -mvL 1 1
and it gives me the entire output
but when i use this command with awk like this:
prstat -mvL 1 1 | awk -F" " '{print $1,$15}'
to get first and 15th arguments.
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hey,
examples of the input (text line):
/bla/blMOasdn234.adanif24/blabla.rar
/bla/blMOasdn234.adanif24/blabla23124.bin
/bla/bla/bla/bla/bla/bla.bin
and what I need to do is extract/select only the dir path so the output would be:
/bla/blMOasdn234.adanif24/
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a file containing a list of references and I want to run a script that will make the same action for each reference.
The input file changes every hour, it's why I want to use a script that can read in a file, record by record, and run a specific action for the reference readed.
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