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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Could somebody please explain to me why and how the highlighted line(s) (?) of code puts the "test" evaluation into "result" and then to $enable_static ? Or does not ?
I did comment out the original code and changed it to what I feel is less cryptic , but the "result" is still wrong =... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: anne
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2. AIX
Hello,
IBM offers a evaluation version of their XL C/C++ compiler. Unfortunatly v16.1 (from Developerworks) can not be installed on AIX 5.3 (I can not upgrade my old 32 Bit RS/6000 to a later version) and I have not found any older versions on the IBM and Developerworks pages.
Is there a... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: eh2scqw
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have made a simple script to find all programs that use a tcp wrapper, it will supply a reasonable default for my system if none is given.
After some digging I realized that the expansion operators pass their default return value single quoted (according to bash -x trace). I have wildcard... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: Riker1204
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
I'm building a script that may received start and end date as parameters. I whant to make it as flexible as possible so I'm accepting epoch and date in a way that "date --date=" command may accept. In order to know if parameter provided is an epoc or a "date --date=" string I evaluate if the value... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: lramirev
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5. Cybersecurity
Hello guys,
I'm actually working on my master thesis which has for subject the evaluation of virtual firewall in a cloud environment. To do so, I installed my own cloud using OpenNebula (as a frontend) and Xen (as a Node) on two different machines. The Xen machine is my virtual firewall thanks... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Slaughterman
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi all!
I'm writting one script to copy a file in various folders, but there are 2 things to validate. First that the folder where i'll be cpying exists, and second that i have permissions to copy the file in it.
so far i have found the way to validate the folder exists, but when trying to... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: feliperivera
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I know this should be simple, but sorry I am fairly new to UNIX and can't find the syntax to make this work.
I have the following two commands in a script:
x=`expr $(head -1 filename.ext | cut -c16 | grep | wc -l) + 16`
del=`head -1 filename.ext | cut -c$x`
This works fine as I expect... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: DJR
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi -
I have an expression that evaluates to "Alive" or some other condition. e.g. if I run :-
awk -F \| '{gsub(/]*/,"",$4); print $4 }'
then the output is "Alive".
I want to be able to test this as the result may be some other condition other than "Alive". I have tried the following... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: sniper57
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
Is there a way to evaluate an equation contained in a string within an AWK script?
For example:
A = "(5*2)-1" (this equation is read from a file and varies line by line)
In this example, I can't see any way to get an answer of 9 unless I do:
cmd = "awk 'BEGIN{print "A"}'"
cmd |... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: srdgeo
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