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1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hello,
I am currently learning UNIX scripting and have written a simple copy program.
However, upon execution, it returns an error despite debugging correctly.
Can anyone assist in explaining this?
Attached screenshots illustrating a test execution.
Many thanks. (13 Replies)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I am writing some shell script to check the file owner permission whether the write bit is turn on. If it is turn on it will copy the file to the destination else it will just prompt user to change the file and skipping it.
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Dear all,
I have a database with thousands of files with the structure of name is:
Filename_hour_year.abc
Filename_hour_year_1.abc
..............
So what I need is how to write a script that all file with contain the character "_1" will copy to "_2"
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I want to copy some files from a Folder say, /usr/X at random intervals to another location.
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
i am trying to copy files except the latest, my script goes here
#! /bin/bash
# to copy control files to a local DR server
# copy latest files of archive
#modified on 26-03-2009
#
--get today date
dt=` date +"%Y_%m_%d"`
--get yesterdays date
adt=`(date --date='1 day ago'... (1 Reply)
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6. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Hello,
I am making a script to copy files interactively from one directory to another using the "i" option because I dont want to overwrite the files.
cp -i *.html ./../otherdir/
cp: do you want to overwrite (y/n) ?
I used
cp -i *.html ./../otherdir/
ans='n'
read $ans
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7. Linux
Hello,
I have a small problem some large shell scripts.
My scripts do lot of text manipulation with large files. But at some point they stuck. The variables in the script lose their value, it becomes null.
I guess this is because of lack of memory. What could be the other reason of... (1 Reply)
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
How to run another shell and have all current shell dectaration copied to that new shell?
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi everyone.. I'm a full-fledged newbie so bear with me. =)
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I accidentally assigned a password to the root user on this system and I don't remember what it was.. I was messing around with commands trying to learn the OS.
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shell(1F) FMLI Commands shell(1F)
NAME
shell - run a command using shell
SYNOPSIS
shell command [command] ...
DESCRIPTION
The shell function concatenate its arguments, separating each by a space, and passes this string to the shell ($SHELL if set, otherwise
/usr/bin/sh).
EXAMPLES
Example 1: A sample output of shell command.
Since the Form and Menu Language does not directly support background processing, the shell function can be used instead.
`shell "build prog > /dev/null &"`
If you want the user to continue to be able to interact with the application while the background job is running, the output of an exe-
cutable run by shell in the background must be redirected: to a file if you want to save the output, or to /dev/null if you don't want to
save it (or if there is no output), otherwise your application may appear to be hung until the background job finishes processing.
shell can also be used to execute a command that has the same name as an FMLI built-in function.
NOTES
The arguments to shell will be concatenate using spaces, which may or may not do what is expected. The variables set in local environments
will not be expanded by the shell because "local" means "local to the current process."
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
sh(1), attributes(5)
SunOS 5.10 5 Jul 1990 shell(1F)