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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi Folks,
Trying to build up a script that will lookup a username invoked as:
./buildscript.sh <username>
This should take <username> and look it up in <username_file> and prepare for further processing. Here is the snippet that isn't working just right:
user=$1
if ]; then
echo... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: gdenton
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am suppose to make a program that cuts the extension off of a file. It uses that .ext to decide which program needs to be used to open the file. This only finds the name of the program from a list of programs I made. My problem is when it has the name of the program it needs to use, how can I... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: dordrix
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
I have a scenario, like consider a file abc.txt,
inside abc.txt, the contents is
value1 = aaa,
value2 = bbb,
value3 = ccc,
value1 = ddd.
In this situation i need to throw an error for the repeatation of keys like "value1" is repeating twice.
how to handle this using bourne... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: Nandagopal
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I'm new to UNIX, at least shell programming and am having trouble figuring out a problem i'm having. In one section in my nested if statement, i want the program to test if the file does not exist, based on an argument supplied at the command line by the user. What i have is
elif ; then... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: rowlf
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
working on AIX 5.3.
Requirement is:
Shell script in ksh to check if any file exists in 4 folders as below:
1. /FILE/INB/INT1
2. /FILE/INB/INT2
3. /FILE/INB/INT3
4. /FILE/INB/INT4
Thanks a lot for your time!
a1_win. (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: a1_win
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Guys,
I am writing a script to delete files 5 min old in Sun Os Unix.
find . -name "*.txt" -mtime +1 -print
I could find an equivalent command to look for files which are 5 min old. i tried -mmin option it didn't work either.
Can any body trow a light on this.
Cheers :)
S:b: (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: sudharma
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
hi all! new to the forum and i love how nice alot of you are. and i was hoping to get some help. a friend of mine asked me to make him a script for backtrack which is based on slax. it makes a new changes.lzm for the usb system and merges 2 files to update it. now i got that handled but i cant seem... (2 Replies)
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have tried few examples in the internet but all of them are different and none worked. I need to check if a file exists in a directory if it does not then exit . here is what I have for now
$filename ="/usr/local/net/var/lib/directoryservice/sync.disable"
if ;
then
echo "The file exists"... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: m_kk
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
How do I test for the presence of a file in Bourne Shell (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: vins
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
I have a file called Delete and within the delete file I have the following statement:
delete from employee where employee_id = " "
how do I write a script that read from this file and replace:
employee_id = " " with employee_id is null
Please assist...greatly... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: kenix
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