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1. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
I am learning Shell scripting on own. I am trying to do an assignment to get details from the user like username their individual marks ,DOB and send a report in mail with the Details calculated like total and average.
validate_marks() {
local Value=$1
if &&
then
return 0
else... (1 Reply)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All
I am trying to validate a value using if condition
requirement is need to check whether its a valid numeric value
the input contains ( space, #N/A and negative and positive decimal values and Zeros)
if it contains the space, I need to display the error message as space
... (15 Replies)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I need a script which do below
I have one process which runs 24*7 daily and I always has to monitor it now i want to have this automated such that if it stops at anytime we get a exception mail.
For example i use ps -ef|grep 'etl'
above command gives me the desired output.
... (7 Replies)
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I want a script to do the following:
1)I want to find all latest files with extension *.doc and write those files to a log file which i did.
my script: find *.doc -mtime -1 -ls > test.log
2) suppose if there is no such latest files extracts script should write "Server... (8 Replies)
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
hi,
how to I do this?
i="4.000"
if ; then
echo "smaller"
fi
how do I convert the "4.000" to 4?
Thanks! (4 Replies)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
I need to write a small piece of code to check the following.
name should contain (A-Z), spaces, hyphens & apostrophes
I need to generate regular expressions for the same.
Please help me out as i am not familiar with regular expressions. (1 Reply)
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I am new to Unix shell scripting and need help to add some validation to an existing script.
I've made a script that takes two argument (input) but I want the script to display an error message when nothing (null) is entered. So far I managed to validate the fist argument but fail to... (2 Replies)
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a comma delimited file that I need to validate the data in one two columns in.
Sample File:
1234,1234,1234,DESCRIPTION,1,1,2
1234,1234,1234,DESCRIPTION,1,1,2
1234,1234,1234,DESCRIPTION,1,1,2
1234,1234,1234,DESCRIPTION,1,1,2
I need to make sure that the second column's entries are... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: hmnetonline
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
How to check whether an input to a shell script contain only numeric values.
Is there any way to check against the following characters.
&
(
)
|
\
"
'
<
>
`
I've used the following way.
echo $1 | grep "\{2\}$"
if
then (12 Replies)
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I'm kinda new in shell scripting. How do i validate an input from a user to conform to requirement. For example,
echo "Enter First Name: "
read FName
echo "Enter Date of Employment (dd/mm/yyyy): "
read DoE
If the user enters data that is alphanumeric, it accepts it. I hope i've... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: Allenzo
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