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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
I've always written scripts where the user executes the script and I prompt them for what they want to do.
But I'm trying to write a script where root executes the script 'lock' or its hard-link 'unlock' and the script will passwd -l or passwd -u an account depending on the choice.
What would... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: ADay2Long
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2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I need to read the date from the input file. The format of the input file is as follows:
a_b_c_yyyymmdd.txt
I need to read the date(yyyymmdd) part from the name of the input file.
Would really appreciate if someone can help me in this regard
Thanks a lot. (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: Sunny_teotia
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
This is one of the strangest things that's happening to me.
I'm writing a new Perl script that is trying to read a file.
The file is originally in .mof format, but I also saved the contents into a .txt file.
As a simple test, I wrote this:
#!/user/bin/perl -w
use strict;
... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: kooshi
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Alright, so the goal of my script is to read text from standard input and store it into a file using the ex-editor:
so far i've got this, but it doesn't work.
#!/bin/s
read text
ex $1 >> HERE
text
HERE
I don't get any errors either, so i don't know what i'm doing wrong. (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: Bertieboy7
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Can I do something like,
if($0==/^int.*$/) {
print "Declaration"
}
for an input like: int a=5;
If the syntax is right, it is not working for me, but I am not sure about the syntax. Please help.
Thanks,
Prasanna (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: prasanna1157
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
I need to know how the the string constant from Input File should be read and provide as input data for the script .
INPUT FILE
CONST VARIABLE
myname=/root/dir/syslog/myname1
myname=/root/dir/syslog/myname2
myname=/root/dir/syslog/myname3
urname=/root/dir/syslog/urname1... (6 Replies)
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi guys,
I am new to AWK and unix scripting. Please see below my problem and let me know if anyone you can help.
I have 2 input files (example given below)
Input file 2 is a standard file (it will not change) and we have to get the name (second column after comma) from it and append it... (5 Replies)
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am trying to read input for a C program (that expects input from the user) from a file using the shell command:
progname < filename
but it seems that the program considers the char '<'
as the first input, hence causing an "error" in my program.
I checked it with another program and it... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: nadbar
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I would like to prompt for input and then use it as a variable in a script.
Something like this.
#!/bin/ksh
echo "What is your name?: \c"
read response
echo "Your name is $reply" >file.txt
done
exit 0
What am I missing?
Thanks, (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: darthur
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
#!/usr/bin/sh
echo "Enter reason:"
echo "> \c"
read $reason
$reason >> access.log
This doesnt work for me. Can someone tell me how I would read the input from what the person types, and then append that to the log file?
Regards (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: alwayslearningunix
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