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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have an issue driving me bonkers. I have a ksh script that requires changing directories. If a argument "TEST" is passed in, this is a regression test execution of the script (as opposed to production execution). I have a directory entitled "TEST" that is located three directory locations ABOVE... (14 Replies)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi, I am creating a ksh script to search for a string of text inside files within a directory tree. Some of these file are going to be read/execute only. I know to use chmod to change the permissions of the file, but I want to preserve the original permissions after writing to the file. How can I... (3 Replies)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
From a shell script I'm trying to remove the first two files of whats returned from the head -2 command so I tried piping it to xargs rm -f but I can't get it to work.
How do I remove the files from the head command?
ls -al *clit* *servr* |sort -t_ -nk2 | head -2 |xargs rm -f (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: Bperl1967
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a script that reaches out to several systems and pulls back infomation in serveral files. I would like to take the infomation returned and reformat it so I can export it to excel.
Below is current output:
File1:item1:abc=1
File1:item2:efg
File2:item1:ab=1
File2:item2:efg... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: oldman2
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I am new to UNIX and shell scripting.
I have to create a shell script(ksh) which parses log4j.xml file for a given webservice name and change the corresponding value from INFO to DEBUG or vice-versa.
My log4j.xml looks like:-
<!-- Appender WEBSERVICENAME-->
<appender... (3 Replies)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
I recently patched a RHEL5 host from 5.2 to 5.5. There are some scripts that simply do a ps and grep to check for itself before proceeding. I personally don't like the way the scripts are written and would have done it differently. Before I can proceed with patching the production servers, I... (12 Replies)
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello All,
I am trying to change a user passwd (one time password):
cat /tmp/passwd
mnop1234
mnop1234
#passwd abcd < /tmp/passwd
(for some reason, it is not able to input the password from /tmp/passwd and comes back with "New Password: ")
Is there a work around except using "expect".
... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: solaix14
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Currently my default shell is bash.How can i change itto ksh... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: dr46014
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9. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Suppose, I want to execute unix commands. For that I have to go to ksh, but if I don't have execute permission to ksh itself then is there any way to change the permission of ksh? chmod command does not work for this because, I don't have permission to ksh itself... :)
Let me know, if you have... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: ponnuvel
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am reading a file into a parameter in my program
typeset nums_type
if the contents of nums_type = asdfghbqwerty
how do make a new paremeter eqaul to the 7th character of nums_type.
like
${type} = b (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: frank
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