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1. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
Hello... and thanks in advance for reading this or offering me any assistance
I'm trying to understand specific differences between the various login scripts... I understand the differences between interactive vs non-interactive and login vs non-login shells... and that's not where my question... (4 Replies)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Heyas
Recently i wanted to help someone with an awk script, but the end-script didnt work as expected.
He wanted, if HOME was empty, to get the HOME of the current USER from /etc/passwd.
At first i tried hardcoded with root:
awk -F: '/^root/ {print $6}' /etc/passwd
As that worked, i've... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: sea
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello
I am working on a Change request and Stuck at a point. The below awk command is used in the function.
float_test ( ) {
echo | awk 'END { exit ( !( '"$1"')); }'
}
I understand that awk 'END' is used to add one line at the end and exit is used to end the script with an error... (4 Replies)
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4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I found this on an awk site and would like to know what it does:
/CARS/{x="";next} {if(x)print x;x=$0} END{if(x)print x}'
Does it mean if it finds the word cars it skips that line and then prints the next one? (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: newbie2010
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5. IP Networking
Hi all,
I am new to linux routing and would like to keep a possible running dialog about some scripts I have been studying and what the different parts of them mean. We are using Openwrt backfire along with openvpn and Swyx as VoIP. My goal is to eventually implement some QoS using dsmark, but... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: shodg001
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6. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
i am analyzing a query written by another developer ,need to understand part of script
am looking at a code ..and it converts comma files to pipe delimited and also takes away quotes from any columns,
source field format: 2510,"Debbie",NewYork
changes to
target: 2510|Debbie|NewYork
... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: coolrock
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Need a better understanding of shell scripts (14 Replies)
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi Guys,
I was recently come across some code to hopefully learn a little bit about putting Shell commands into PHP application to run on a Linux server. However, I don't understand the command AT ALL... and was wondering if anyone can interpret it:
cat userIDs.dat | awk '{s=s+1; if... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: jordRiot
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
I know that we can call system command to execute shell script in awk.
but it does not return the result of the command executed , but only returns
the value of the command executoin status ( 1/0 --> failure / success).
Could anyone let me know how to solve this problem. (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: rajnikanth.1912
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I'm trying to get a clear picture of how startup scripts are executed during
bootup. When run-level N is entered, the scripts in /rcN.d are executed.
I understand that the S* scripts are executed in numerical order during bootup.
What I don't understand is if the K* scripts are executed... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: darkmatter14B
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