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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi everyone,
I have been using a shell script for the last 6 months to copy a database from a POS system, then analyse the database and print the current sales total. This has worked flawlessly, the only issue was that I had hard coded the IP address of the POS and occasionally I would need to... (23 Replies)
Discussion started by: gjws
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2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
when creating a for loop (or any other parameter) then using that paramter in a background command execution I only see the parameter name, not the value.
I have tried eval and exec and a host of other options to try to get the text of the parameter showing, so i know what step is left...
e.g.... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: OoozyFoot
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi Folks,
I am trying to read input from single line from a file and pass the read variable to one of the commands. However when I run the script it keeps the variable to be empty. I can however echo the variable ( but why it is empty when it goes to the command).
Any help will be... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: bhadu
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am facing a problem while storring the grep results into a variable. I need to count the occurence of the pattern \, in a file and store that in a variable. I have given the below command
p=`grep -c '\\,' filename`
But while echoing the variable, i am getting the total number of lines in... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: renjithv
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
When script is running you only see when some of the commands are not successfull.
Is there a way to see which command are executed and to show the substitution of variables as every line is executed ? (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: gr0124
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello
This should be easy, but bash is giving me headaches.
At the command line the following command works:
duplicity --include /home --exclude '**' / file:///foo
Doing that from a script is not straightforward. Note that it is basically a requirement that I place the... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: brsett
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have the following data from a manual database dump. I need to format the columns so that I can import them into an excel spread sheet. So far I have been able to get past the hurdles with vi and grep. Now I have one last issue that I can't get past. Here is an example of the data.
Here is... (18 Replies)
Discussion started by: Chris_Rivera
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have a script where I am trying to set a local variable using the following,
MYVAR="$NAME"_"$NAME2".txt
where say,
NAME = one
NAME2 = two
so I want the output one_two.txt but what I am getting is,
two.txt
basically the $NAME2 is overwriting, what am I doing wrong?
... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: walsh_j
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Anyone have an idea why this if statement does not work correctly?
"test2.sh" 18 lines, 386 characters
#!/usr/bin/sh
WARNING=80
CRITICAL=95
check_it()
{
if ] || ];then
echo "YES ] || ]"
else
echo "NO ] || ]"
fi
}
check_it 80.1
check_it 81.1 (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: 2dumb
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10. HP-UX
i've same failure too, but this command boot pri isl
not work/not found
Thanks! (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: pantas manik
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