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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
I thought this would be simple, but I've been having a lot of trouble trying to write this IF statement, if I may ask for help pls:
In BASH, how would I construct the if statement:
Should ONLY be true if USEROPTscript=="yes"]] AND $mode=="INSTALL" /or/ $mode=="CHANGE" ]]... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: jmccoughlin
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi everybody!!
Here is the thing; I have a trouble in this simple situation, I'm trying to write an array with all the arguments of a command. I mean, if I have:
./mycommand.sh aa bb cc dd
I need to take an array like this:
myarray=(aa bb cc dd)
So I use a simple for loop like this:
for... (4 Replies)
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3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Please help me out: I've seen this construct
awk '{...}1'several times, like in scrutinizer's today's post
awk '{for(i=2;i<=NF;i++)if($i==$1)$i=RS $i}1' infilebut I can't find (manuals, man pages, internet FAQs,...) an explanation of what it does resp. stands for. Any hint is appreciated! (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: RudiC
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all
i have been trying to do a small 'question and answer' script using if-else statement and a combination of pipe. I have succeeded in allowing the user to login with user name and password stored in a sequence username/password in a file named "pass" like this:
echo "please enter your... (14 Replies)
Discussion started by: arikutex
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
I'd like to create a variable with the value of X number of space( no Perl please), printf seems to work, but , in following example,10 spaces becomes 1 space when assinged to a variable, Why? other solutions are welcome.
$printf "=%10s=\n"
= =
$var=$(printf "=%10s=\n")
echo... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: honglus
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi
can anyone tell me why is this code giving error
mode=$1
if ] || ] then
echo "MODES:"
exit 1
fi
Thanks (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: Anteus
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
Sorry to ask this easy question but I am stuck. In a scenario i am executing one shell script which contains a if - else construct :
if ; then
echo $line
$line >> successful_build.txt
else
$line >> failed_services.txt
fi
explaination : if the... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: bhaskar_m
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi Guys,
could someone tell me what this ksh construct does
typeset -r PROG_PWD=${0%/*} does
I understand the -r for readonly but I would very much appreciate a definitive account of what this will set $PROG_PWD to.
If I run this at the cmd line it it gets set to /usr/bin but I would... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: ajcannon
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have an embedded Perl construct in a korn script. However, I cannot seem to access the shell variables that were declared outside this Perl section.
This is how my script is written....I have also tried back-ticks where I assign the shell variable to my local perl variable, still... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: svetlur
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all
I have tried to search for this, but keep getting a MySQL db connect error, so am posing the question here, and taking a risk of incurring the wrath of the mods with my first post...
I have the following test script:
#!/bin/bash
HTTPD=`/bin/ps -axcu | /usr/bin/grep httpd... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: mikie
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