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1. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
Hello All,
Hope you're doing well !
I am trying below command to be passed in a shell script, header_date_14 is a variable and $1 is the name of a file I intend to pass as a command line argument, however command line argument is not being accepted.
header_date_14=$(m_dump... (8 Replies)
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2. Red Hat
Hi all,
Hereby wish to have your advise for below:
Main concept is
I intend to get current directory of my script file.
This script file will be copied to /etc/init.d.
A string in this copy will be replaced with current directory value.
Below is original script file:
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Discussion started by: cielle
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello again :)
Am currently trying to write a function which will delete a record from a file.
The code currently looks as such:
function deleteRecord() {
clear
read -p "Please enter the ID of the record you wish to remove: " strID
... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: U_C_Dispatj
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4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I have a master BASH shell script where I define a bunch of variables:
$var1=why
$var2=is
$var3=(this so hard)
I would then like to call another shell script and pass these variables to it:
$script2 $var1 $var2 $var3
This works fine for var1 and var2. However, var3 is an array,... (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: msb65
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Dear Unix guru's,
I have a SUSE linux variant with SAP running on it. From SAP it is possible to call UNIX commands, like the shell with parameters.
We have several of these systems, like a development system (DEV), a test system (TST) and a production system (PRD).
I have created a... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: jansb000
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi
I have a such conditional:
SPAMH="it is SPAM"
if grep -q $SPAMH $NMDIR/$mail; then
SPAMHFLAG=1
else
SPAMHFLAG=0
fi
And grep doesn't catch this string, even it exists there. I think it's a problem with passing $SPAMH to grep. I tried... (2 Replies)
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I have an awk statement where I Need to pass an environment variable but I cannot get it to work:
My evironment varible examples below:
$FILE1=/dev/fs/file.new
$FILE2=/dev/fs/file.old
Code below:
awk -F"|" '
BEGIN {
while( getline < "$FILE1" )
{ arr=1 }
}
arr != 1 { print }
'... (12 Replies)
Discussion started by: eja
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Can any one suggest me how to check the file extension and pass the name based out of the filename within the folder.
There would be always one latest file in the folder, but extension may vary...
ie .csv, .CSV,.rpt,.xls etc
what is best way to get the latest file name and pass as variable.... (1 Reply)
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
i would like to pass a variable to awk wherein the variable comes from external loop.
i tried this...
let x=0
until test $x -eq 32
do
cat file | awk '{ print $1 , "Number" , $($x) }' >> output
done
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Discussion started by: inquirer
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi there. If variables are named inside of a ksh script, how is it possible to pass these to sed?
The affected portion of my script goes something like this:
A=`cut -d. -f1 $FILE`
B=`cut -d. -f2 $FILE`
C=`cut -d. -f3 $FILE`
sed 's/1111/$A/g;s/2222/$B/g;s/3333/$C/g' file > anotherfile
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