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1. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
I am trying to pass a second argument like so:
if ] then
export ARG2=$2
else
message "Second argument not specified: USAGE - $PROGRAM_NAME ARG1 ARG2"
checkerror -e 2 -m "Please specify if it is a history or weekly (H or W) extract in the 2nd argument"
fi
however, it always goes... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: MIA651
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
How to pass the alphabet character as a argument in case and in if block?
ex:
c=$1
if a-z ]]
then
echo "alphabet"
case $1 in
a-z) echo "the value is a alphabet"
edit by bakunin: please use CODE-tags. We REALLY mean it. (9 Replies)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have a script that is scheduled with cron and runs every night. The cron part looks like this:
00 20 * * 0,1,2,3,4,5,6 /usr/local/bin/BACKUP TBTARM HOT DELETE
My issue is with the 3rd parameter. Somewhere in the script, i want to tell the script to delete some files if the 3rd... (7 Replies)
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
In the given script code .
I want to pass the maximum value that variable "i" will have in function DivideJobs () to variable $max of function SubmitCondorJob().
Any help?
Thanks
#!/bin/bash ... (55 Replies)
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi Folks
I have got to the point where I can specify the arguments but how to pass an option is still mystery to me. Example:
temp.csh a b c d
set temp1 = $argv
set temp2 = $argv
set temp3 = $argv
echo $temp1
a
echo $temp2
b
echo $temp3
c d
I WANT:
temp.csh a b c d -S 1
set temp1... (2 Replies)
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6. Programming
Hi friends,
I have a small query, hope u will help me with it.
I want to write a small program which would take an integer as an argument, then I want to save that argument in a variable of type int. Could you please help me with it. Here is my program
#include <stdio.h>
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi guys!
So, I use GET ( Simple user agent using LWP library. ) on a remote text file that is then passed to bash and executed. However, I need to pass that bash script a single argument, and so far nothing that I have tried has worked, although I have learned quite a bit about input/output... (5 Replies)
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all
I have got a file digits.data containing the following data
1 3 4
2 4 9
7 3 1
7 3 10
I am writing a script that will pass an argument from C-shell to nawk command. But it seems the values in the nawk comman does not get set. the program does not print no values out. Here is the... (2 Replies)
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
Lets say I have a script "ss" which does this
read abc
echo $abc
read pqr
echo $pqr
Now if I want to pass and argument to only "abc" how do I do it.
If I do
echo "somevalue" | ss, it does not prompt for pqr and its value comes out as blank.
Any help is appreciated
Thanks
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
i have script like below..
echo "1) first option"
echo ""
echo "2) second option"
echo ""
echo "*) please enter the correct option"
read select
case $select in
1) echo "first option selected"
;;
2) echo "second option selected"
;;
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