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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi
Can somebody please show me how to check from within a KSH script if a directory exists on that same host when parts of the directory tree are unknown?
If these wildcard dirs were the only dirs at that level then ...
RETCODE=$(ls -l /u01/app/oracle/local/*/* | grep target_dir) ... will... (4 Replies)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Gurus, Please need your help.
I'm saving a filetimestamp into $filetimestamp and
say....echo $filetimestamp gives 2015021612
I'm saving a cutoff_time into $cutoff_time
say....echo $cutoff_time gives 2015021514
now my requirement is to check if $filetimestamp is greater than... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: thummi9090
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have a file abc.txt as
ABC,TYU,1.2566
AHG,GJJ,1.898
hgh,FGA,1.854
My program is reading each line and storing the values variables base_cy, quo_cy, ra_amt
Need to validate each of them as in:
base_cy and quo_cy should be a 3 character alphabet among A-Z, if it is lower case ... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: infyanurag
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4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
This is what I have just entered and received in return:
# echo $LANG
LANG: Undefined variable.
How can this be? I was expecting something like en_US.utf8. Am using FreeBSD 8.2. (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: figaro
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
To check a bash script syntax without executing it we use:
bash -n scriptname
What should be the equivalent command for checking a ksh script? (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: proactiveaditya
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Does anyone know the quick way to check if the variable contains only numeric characters, for example:
A=123445 - correct
B=#f123* - incorrect
I am in ksh88i Thanks a lot for help -A (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: aoussenko
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
How would I go about getting the previous date on the server? I'm out of ideas...I am thinking that I could do it using the date command, but I am unable to find any information on doing it. For example if the current date is April 17th 2008 it would be (20080417) <- (YYYYMMDD). I need the previous... (4 Replies)
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
How could I check if a numeric variable has 5 digits in KSH...I have a zipcode variable that I know will always be 5 digits, and I want to print out an error if it is less or more than 5 digits the problem is that I have it as:
if ]
but this won't work because the statement doesn't see 0001 as... (3 Replies)
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
How could I check if a string variable contains at least (or only) 2 characters, and check and make sure that the string does not contain any numeric digits?...I need to know how to do this as simple as possible. and I am using the Ksh shell. Thanks. (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: developncode
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
This is what I tried:
vara=${varb}_count
(( vara += 1 ))
Thanks for help (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: pa3be
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