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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
So this is something I've been wondering how to do for a while. Suppose I have two shell scripts a.sh and b.sh
script a does some function and outputs to a varable $x . I would then like to take $x into the second function, b.sh, and do a function on it and create some output. So how do you pass... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: viored
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
I am fairly new to UNIX and very new to this forum too. This is my first post here. Here is my scenario -
I have 3 scripts script1, script2 and script3. I want to start script1 and script2 asynchronously. Upon completion of both scripts script1 and script2, i want to fire the last... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: taskeen21
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello all, I am relatively new to linux and bash scripting. I have what seems to be a simple question but I'm having trouble finding the answer.
The question is what is the difference between the variables $@ and $*. I've seen them both used in the same context, and I've tried a number of... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: nicthu
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello gurus,
I have three korn shell script 3.1, 3.2, 3.3. I would like to call three shell script in one shell script.
i m looking for something like this
call 3.1;
If 3.1 = "complete" then
call 3.2;
if 3.2 = ''COMPlete" then
call 3.3;
else
exit
The... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: shashi369
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi there,
I'm writing a script to restore 3 directories and 3 mysql db's every 24 hours. While writing the script, I came across the thought...
Do I need to pause between executions?
Example:
msql restore1.sql
rm -Rf path1/*
cp -Rf path1/* /restore1
chmod 777 /folder1/cache1
... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: semiotics101
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Dear all,
How can we know in a KornShell script reading a value from the standard input, that the entered value is the newline character? because as far as I know we cannot use \n for pattern matching. For example:
#!/bin/ksh
print -n "enter your value: "
read VALUE
if ]
then
... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: dariyoosh
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7. AIX
Hi,
Please give me the detailed Differences between writing Unix Shell script and AIX Shell Scripts. Thanks in advance..... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: haroonec
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi, I am not experienced in shell scripts, I hope someone can give some hint for the following problem
I have html file like this
<html>
<body>
Some stuff
More stuff
<pre>
A
B
</pre>
Still more stuff
And more
<pre>
C
D
</pre>
Additional stuff
</body> (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: ccp
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
:D my first question is how can envoke filename expansion from within a shell script.. forinstance if i execute the script and it asks for a specific directory that i would like to cd to, how can i get the script to use the same file name expension as the command line..
my second question is how... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: moxxx68
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi there,
I produced a script that can sometimes take a lot of time to run. To make sure that it was running I was printing ". " to the screen. I found this could easliy scroll through lots of pages before it finsihed. So I came up with this.
I put this at the beginnig.
do_next()
{
... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: nhatch
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SHTOOL-TABLE.TMP(1) GNU Portable Shell Tool SHTOOL-TABLE.TMP(1)
NAME
shtool-table - GNU shtool pretty-print a field-separated list
SYNOPSIS
shtool table [-F|--field-sep sep] [-w|--width width] [-c|--columns cols] [-s|--strip strip] strsepstr...
DESCRIPTION
This pretty-prints a list of strings as a table.
OPTIONS
The following command line options are available.
-F, --field-sep sep
Separate columns using sep. Default is ":".
-w, --width width
Width of each column. Default is 15 characters.
-c, --columns cols
Number of columns. Default is 3.
-s, --strip strip
Strip off any characters past strip. Default is 79.
EXAMPLE
# shell script
shtool table -F , -w 5 -c 4 "1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12"
HISTORY
The GNU shtool table command was originally written by Ralf S. Engelschall <rse@engelschall.com> in 1999 for GNU shtool.
SEE ALSO
shtool(1), tr(1), fmt(1), sh(1), awk(1), sed(1).
18-Jul-2008 shtool 2.0.8 SHTOOL-TABLE.TMP(1)