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1. Programming
HI ,
I am running a program on hpux in perl.
I am encountering a strange issue where when i print a variable in the sub which is returning it , it prints a different value but when i call it and store value in a variable it gives a different o/p.
the sub is
sub CheckConfigFilePattern ... (4 Replies)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi
I have a code as the following
#!/usr/bin/ksh
set -x
row()
{
a=$1
b=$2
c=$(($a + $b))
d=$(($a * $b))
echo $a $b
}
e=`row 2 3`
set $e
echo "The value of c is $c"
echo "The value of d is $d"
My requirement is I need to pass two arguments to a function and return two values... (5 Replies)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi
I am pretty confused in returning and capturing multiple values
i have defined a function which should return values "total, difference"
i have used as
#!/usr/bin/ksh
calc()
{
total=$1+$2
echo "$total"
diff=$2-$1
echo "$diff"
}
I have invoked this function as
calc 5 8
Now i... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Priya Amaresh
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
I've been trying to write a command-line function to grab a website's MX records and their ip addresses. The code below works with domains that only have one MX record:
function kmx { mx=`host -t MX $1 | awk '{ print $7 }'`;
ip=`host $mx | sed '/IPv6/d;/handled/d' | awk '{ print $4 }'`; ... (8 Replies)
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
i have an oracle function which returns two values, one is the error message if the function encounters anything and another one which returns a number
i need to capture both
and pass it on to unix shell script
how to do it (2 Replies)
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6. Programming
hi
how can I return multiple values from a C function. I tried the following:
#include <stdio.h>
void foo(int id, char *first_name, char *last_name)
{
/*
this is just an example to illustrate my problem... real code makes
use of the "id" parameter.
*/
first_name = (char... (8 Replies)
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi
Running a specific nawk statement over a 17m lines files returns the following:
/bin/nawk: not enough args in .....
input record number 1,25955e+06, file test.1
source line number 1
I'd like to report the line number (in bold above) in decimal not floating so that i can spot it out.
... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: moutaye
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8. Solaris
Hi
Running a specific nawk statement over a 17m lines files returns the following:
/bin/nawk: not enough args in .....
input record number 1,25955e+06, file test.1
source line number 1
I'd like to report the line number (in bold above) in decimal not floating so that i can spot it out.
... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: moutaye
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
I need to send the status from child shell failure to parent shell. I would like to know how could we accomplish this.
My parent.sh is as below:
#!/bin/ksh
set -x
echo "I am in parent shell now..."
child.sh
ret_stat=$?
echo "rest_stat=$ret_stat"
echo "I am below parent shell end..."
... (4 Replies)
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have an application on Informix 4GL, and I am invoking the shell script from the program, but I need to know if the shell script work fine or not, in order to continue the process.
I know that we can use $? to get the final status but this is on unix command. How can I return a value from the... (3 Replies)
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