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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
hi all ,
i just tried to take the status of previous command inside the script using
echo $?. It throws me a variable syntax error , but when i use echo $? as an individual command it works perfectly .
can anyone Please tell me why am getting a variable syntax error when i use echo $?... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: Rahul619
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
if a variable has part of awk syntax stored in it. for eg: x=if($1>100)
can we substitute this variable in an awk statement.
based on above requirement can we execute something like:
awk '{x print $1}' infile (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: 47shailesh
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have the following lines that I would like to see in an array for easy comparisons and printing:
Example 1:
field1,field2,field3,field4,field5
value1,value2,value3,value4,value5Example 2:
field1,field3,field4,field2,field5,field6,field7... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: ejdv
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am not sure what I am doing wrong here, I did some research and only confused myself further. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I need to make this work for work tomorrow.
There are only 34 lines of code in this script, yet its complaining about line 35
Here is the code:
... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: BkontheShell718
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
I must admit I am relativly new to sed, and I am trying to make a simple sed query to search log files and return multiple variables from multiple logs. So far I have had success, but one problem remains:
Alot of lines in the log files wrap onto multiple lines and are not being returned as... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: demanche
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello all,
I have "inherited" a Korn shell script I'm supposed to maintain, and running a "sh -n" on it, I got this syntax error:
script.sh: syntax error at line 63: `OB_DEVICE=$' unexpected
The line in cause is the first occurence of the usage of perl one-liners. The whole line:
... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: AdrianM
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am trying to write a script that will do a sql statement. But in the sql I will have a list (1,2,3,4).
How would I go about asking for the input from the user running the script, and then transferring that back into the list as say ($var1,$var2,$var3)?
It would be somewhat like this:
... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: Captain
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8. Solaris
There is a possibility to set a variable, having an another variable in it's name:
prompt% setenv PRT one
prompt% setenv VAR_${PRT} value
prompt%
So, this way the VAR_one = "value" and could be viewed:
prompt% echo VAR_one
value
prompt%
Q: How to view a variable having another... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: alex_5161
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I need some syntax help (working in a bash shell)
I have a variable which is a filename with an extension, and I need to create another variable with the same name but a different extension
To explain, the input file should be called something like "filename.L1" and the output file should be... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: Slanter
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
How to export variables on a UNIX prompt. Please provide me syntax.
Thanks in advance.
Malay (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: malaymaru
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