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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have been trying to use read in a script with issues so I tried some things on the command line.
$ echo "testing 123" | read x ; echo $xand
$ echo "testing 123" | read -r x ; echo $xare only producing any output after being invoked the first time after rebooting the machine. I also got into... (14 Replies)
Discussion started by: Michael Stora
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi again,
What i'm trying to accomplish here is search a large directory for certain filesames, read from a txt file and looping through it.
For instance, one of my target names from the loop file is:
1ad55f47-c342-496b-a46d-ba7de0f1b434
My loop is constructed thusly, run in a directory... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Karunamon
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
In one session I have strange behavior of the bash-shell:
SDX-Q> echo ">$ss<" #this is just to present the $ss var:
> lll kkk <
SDX-Q> # more obviose:
SDX-Q> od -cb <<<"$ss"
0000000 l l l k k k \n
040 040 040 154 154 154 040... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: alex_5161
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4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I am currently reading a tar file and searching for a particular word using grep e.g. Plane. At the moment, if a sentence is found with the word "Plane" the sentence itself is piped to another file.
Here is the code i am using;
for jar in 'cat jar_file.tar'; do
tar -tvf... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: crunchie
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5. IP Networking
Hi.
I want to use the DHCP server that comes with vxWorks 6.4.
The DHCP server implementation has a table that contains addresses of DHCP servers that will receive a copy of all the client requests that the local server gets, thus the server acts as a dhcp relay at the same time.
Can anyone... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: tomwolf
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all, im doing this script in which i read from a logfile line by line, my problem is this:
The script was working fine until i added this statement to SSH into another machine to look for some data, it enters and retrieves the data just fine, but for some strange reason after it goes thru the... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: sx3v1l_1n51de
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi Guys,
I have this script which is being called from another script,
sh +x SCRIPTNAME.
Now this script is failing saying the source file is missing. But i was able to see the source file was present. It was renamed and but somehow the source file is removed. There is no remove command in the... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: mac4rfree
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
basically what this script is supposed to do is showing a list of hosts that is given a number, that you will be able to choose from a list.
A check is made to verify that the chosen number is within the array and this is where things go bad and I don't know why, bizarre.
I've spent... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: gand
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello!
I have a question about loops and arrays. I'm trying to go through this:
for aa in 01 02 03
OrigNum=$(grep ${Orig} Ba3In2F12.prepos | wc -l)
OrigNum=$((${OrigNum} - 1))
echo ${OrigNum}
etc
It gets stuck on the second line. The error reads:
./asdf: line 30:... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: RisingSun
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10. Solaris
Hello. I'm getting very odd behavior when I try to change a user's password in Solaris 8. The shell, where it used to ask for a new passwd and a confirmation, now asks FOUR times, with two success message.
This is what happens every time:
# passwd myusername
New Password: xxxxxxxx
New... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: rockusa
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