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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
To all geeks,
What I want to achieve:
1. Accept two filenames from user and store the filenames in two variables (FILE1 and FILE2)
2. Check if files exisits. If doesn't, then exit
3. If files exist, look for a particular string in both files
4. If the string exists, then change the... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: Deepak Tulsani
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2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hello!!
Am trying to substitute the value of a shell variable with the value of another shell variable. The values are obtained into the shell variables through some other processing.
for ex.
i've used the follow sed command..
sed "s/$var1/$var2/g"
i've also tried the other... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: a_ba
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
hi,
i created a shell script having the following content:
#! /usr/bin/ksh
FROM="myemail@domain.com"
MAILTO="someemail@domain"
SUBJECT="TEST"
BODY="/export/home/adshocker/body.txt"
ATTACH="/export/home/adshocker/attach.prog"
echo $ATTACH
ATTACH_NAME="${ATTACH##*/}"
echo $ATTACH_NAME... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: adshocker
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4. Solaris
Hi,
I have to read a file and translate the contents including substituting the variables if any and write to another file without using sed or awk.
For ex:-
inputfile.txt
-----------
servername=$SERVER
application=$APPL
outputfile.txt
------------
servername=actual server name... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: axes
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi
I have a variable BIT1 which holds some value. Is there a way to retrieve the value of this variable indirectly via another variable, lets say SUBSET_BIT_NUM=1, so the call will look something like this:
sundev1 $ echo ${BIT${SUBSET_BIT_NUM}}
ksh: ${BIT${SUBSET_BIT_NUM}}: bad substitution
... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: aoussenko
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6. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
My specific goal: automatically edit a Makefile variable's (EXTRAVERSION)
value in a kernel Makefile.
So, I have a shell script that takes one parameter, a version string:
buildkernel.sh 2.6.18.21.7-custom
In the script, I assign the parameter to K_VER:
K_VER="2.6.18.21.7-custom"... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: duderonomy
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7. Solaris
Hi,
Following code is working in bash but not in ksh.
Can someone please send me an alternative?
#!/bin/ksh
fname="EOA.dmp"
echo $fname
logname=${fname/.dmp/.log}
echo $logname
I am getting below error in ksh
"testcmd: logname=${fname/.dmp/.log}: 0403-011 The specified substitution... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: arsheshadri
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8. AIX
Following code is working in bash but not in ksh.
Can someone please send me an alternative?
#!/bin/ksh
fname="EOA.dmp"
echo $fname
logname=${fname/.dmp/.log}
echo $logname
I am getting below error in ksh
"testcmd: logname=${fname/.dmp/.log}: 0403-011 The specified substitution is not... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: arsheshadri
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi folks
Please let me know if anyone knows how to handle this.
My KSH script -> testscript.ksh
cmd=$1
ENV="devl"
echo $cmd
This is how I call the script
./testscript.ksh 'ps -ef | grep br$ENV'
How do I get this to print the below text i.e $ENV should be substituted with the value... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: tipsy
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
I thought it was possible to use several time a #! entry on a script but it doesn't seems to work. My need is to have a part of a ksh script without substitution so it would look like
#!/bin/ksh
--
first part
---
#!/bin/ksh -f
--
part without substitution
--
#!/bin/ksh
--... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: solea
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