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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I am using this command fuser_result=`fuser -f /web/$1/admin-*/logs/access` to get the parent pid of the process.
However, The output differs and at times it shows two pids instead of one thus failing the logic of my script. See output below:
bash-3.2$ fuser -f... (3 Replies)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
A not-too-ugly solution to this classic problem...
#!/bin/bash
mknod fifo p
(
echo 'value' > fifo &
)
VARIABLE=`cat fifo`
rm fifo
Whatdcha think? Good? No good? (9 Replies)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
I'm trying to make a sed substitution where the substitution pattern is an environment variable to be expanded, but the variable contains a "slash".
sed -e 's/<HOME_DIRECTORY>/'$HOME'/'This gives me the following error:
sed: -e expression #1, char 21: unknown option to `s'Obviously this is... (2 Replies)
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
I need to get the PID of a process which i ran in background into a variable
echo $! gives me the PID of last background process but how to get this into a variable so that i can use "wait" command later in the script to make sure that this background process was done
var = `echo... (5 Replies)
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
hi all,
for an example:
$ ps -ef | grep apache | awk '{ print $2, $3 }'
24073 11784
28021 1
28022 1
28038 1
28041 28040
28045 28041
28047 28041
28040 1
28049 28041
28051 28041
28053 28041
28030 1
28054 28041
28055 28041
28056 28041
28057 28041 (5 Replies)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
The below shell script obtains a command and an alias from the user then appends the alias to the users ~/.aliases file. It is useful with cd commands and saves typing; instead of going cd /foo/bar/bonk/boo/what/whatelse/dir I create an alias something like "godir".
It's not done and I will... (2 Replies)
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I need to get the pid of a process and have to store the pid in a variable and i want to use this value(pid) of the variable for some process. Please can anyone tell me how to get the pid of a process and store it in a variable. please help me on this.
Thanks in advance,
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
hi experts(novice people can stay away as it is no child's game),
i am developing a script which works like recycle bin of windows.
the problem i am facing is that when ever i am trying to delete a file which is situated in parent directory or parent's parent directory i am unable to... (1 Reply)
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I am using bash and need to run a set of tcsh scripts that set environment variables. Is there a way to do this? Any help greatly appreciated. (3 Replies)
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
hi folks
can any suggest me how to get a parent processid in the script if i am executing this in the script
vi myscript.sh
echo "parent shell pid"$$
sh myscript.sh
but when i am executing this i am getting a new pid(actually that is the child pid) whenever i am executing this... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: maheshwin
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