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1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hello all, I have a Mac OS X (10.7), and I need to set environment variables and paths for some programs I will be running. I have followed instructions and searched the Web for where to do this, but I can't seem to find an answer. I have tried using the VIM editor to write them into my .login,... (2 Replies)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
For example
test.sh:
test="teststring"
cmd=$1
$cmd
For some reason I'm NOT seeing "teststring" when I type: ./test.sh "echo $test"
Any ideas on how to get around this?
I've tried commands like:
./test.sh "echo $($test)"
./test.sh "echo '$test'"
And many variations to no... (6 Replies)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
echo `echo ` doesn't echoes anything. And it's logic. But
echo `echo `echo ` ` does echoes "echo". What's the logic of it? the `echo `echo ` inside of the whole (first) echo, echoes nothing, so the first echo have to echo nothing but echoes "echo"
(too much echoing :P):o (2 Replies)
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Working on a way to speed up my script output. I have a multiline file that I pull each line as a variable and post it on a webpage. It needs some help as it works but slow. I think I have too many cat, grep and sed going on but don't know what would work better.
#!/bin/sh... (5 Replies)
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5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Bit of a weird one i suppose, i want to use an echo inside an echo... For example...
i have a script that i want to use to take users input and create another script. Inside this script it creates it also needs to use echos...
echo "echo "hello"" >$file
echo "echo "goodbye"" >$file
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
So in my shell i execute:
{ while true; do echo string; sleep 1; done } | read line This waits one second and returns.
But
{ while true; do /bin/echo string; sleep 1; done } | read line continues to run, and doesn't stop until i kill it explicitly.
I have tried this in bash as well as zsh,... (2 Replies)
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
I need to split a long varible which is a whole line read from a file into fields and store them in an array, the fields are delimited by pipe and a field may contain white spaces.
I tried the following concept test and it has problem with field 5 which contain a space, appearently so because... (3 Replies)
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I want create env variable for "/ramakrsihna/scripts"
help me on this. (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: koti_rama
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
All,
Any chance someone could help me with this.... The script is reading from a file and for every line of input to the loop I am trying to assign a new varible. When i run the script I get the below errors. I have come to a bit of a dead end so any pointers/help would be very much... (1 Reply)
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
flavor -- AIX 4.2.1
I am putting together some HTML pages, some of which contain forms. The problem pops up when I attempt to pass variables (from the forms) from one HTML page to a cgi-like page created using ksh.
I have used the $1 - $9 vars, but they do not work with the passing. With... (1 Reply)
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