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1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
input:
AAA|1
my script (the function is just an example):
gawk 'BEGIN{FS=OFS="|"}
function repeat(str, n, rep, i){
for(i=1; i<=n; i++)
rep=rep str
return rep
}
{
variable_1=repeat($1,$2)
variable_2=repeat($1,$2+1)
variable_3=repeat($1,$2+3)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I'm a rookie who is trying to learn this stuff. What I need help with is putting together a non complicated "while" loop within the below "if" statement. I also need the while loop to keep looping until the user types a key to end the loop. Please reveal the proper insertion points. Thank... (4 Replies)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi Team!!
Please can anyone tell me why the following line does not work properly?
str3+=$str2
it seems that str3 variable does not keep its value in order to be concatenated in the next iteration! Thus when i print the result of the line above it returns the str2 value
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello All,
Maybe I'm Missing something here but I have NOOO idea what the heck is going on with this....?
I have a Variable that contains a PATTERN of what I'm considering "Illegal Characters". So what I'm doing is looping
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I'm using the bourn shell on a Sun Solaris Unix system. I am relatively new to UNIX scripting so please bear with me...
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Hello
I am having issues with a script I'm working on developing on a Solaris machine.
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi there,
I don't understand the following behavior:
toto:~$ for word in un "deux trois"; do echo $word; done
un
deux trois
toto:~$ sentence='un "deux trois"'
toto:~$ for word in $sentence; do echo $word; done
un
"deux
trois"
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hi all,
i am experiencing an error which i think an incorrect syntax for the where clause passing a variable was given. under is my code.
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whenever sqlerror exit
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have a problem with expending variables when used in a for loop:
#!/bin/ksh
VAR1=aaa
VAR2=bbb
VAR3=ccc
for ITEM in VAR1 VAR2 VAR3
do
echo "${ITEM}"
done
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VAR1
VAR2
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
#!/usr/bin/ksh
echo Please enter
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do
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question:
How can I enject an if statement that if the users enter 0 (zero) the program will exit?
this is what I have but not working
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