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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
I've always written scripts where the user executes the script and I prompt them for what they want to do.
But I'm trying to write a script where root executes the script 'lock' or its hard-link 'unlock' and the script will passwd -l or passwd -u an account depending on the choice.
What would... (3 Replies)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am currently trying to develop a script to connect to mulltiple servers, reading specifc data from log files on the servers and append the data from each file into a single tab delimited row. So, at the end I am planning to have a report with all the extracted data with each row per server. I am... (5 Replies)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
This is one of the strangest things that's happening to me.
I'm writing a new Perl script that is trying to read a file.
The file is originally in .mof format, but I also saved the contents into a .txt file.
As a simple test, I wrote this:
#!/user/bin/perl -w
use strict;
... (3 Replies)
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Alright, so the goal of my script is to read text from standard input and store it into a file using the ex-editor:
so far i've got this, but it doesn't work.
#!/bin/s
read text
ex $1 >> HERE
text
HERE
I don't get any errors either, so i don't know what i'm doing wrong. (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: Bertieboy7
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Can I do something like,
if($0==/^int.*$/) {
print "Declaration"
}
for an input like: int a=5;
If the syntax is right, it is not working for me, but I am not sure about the syntax. Please help.
Thanks,
Prasanna (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: prasanna1157
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
I need to know how the the string constant from Input File should be read and provide as input data for the script .
INPUT FILE
CONST VARIABLE
myname=/root/dir/syslog/myname1
myname=/root/dir/syslog/myname2
myname=/root/dir/syslog/myname3
urname=/root/dir/syslog/urname1... (6 Replies)
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello.
I've written up a script, that populates a variable with a list of tapes returned from my library. For example:
701940L3,701941L3,701942L3,701943L3,701944L3,701945L3,701946L3,701947L3,701948L3
So now, the variable "TAPELIST" contains those numbers, delimited by commas. I'd like to... (6 Replies)
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Being new to this area .I have been assigned a task which i am unable to do . Can any one please help me .
Hi I have requirement where i have input file XYZ_111_999_YYYYMMDD_1.TXT and with header and series of Numbers and Footer.
I want to create a mutiple output files with each file having a... (2 Replies)
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
#!/bin/sh
rpt="/export/home/legato/rpt_offsite"/test_eject.tape
cat <$rpt
while read line
do
echo $line
perform routine
done
I am trying to read the contents of this file line by line and perform a routine for each line read.
The file contents are numbers..
What is wrong with my... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: gzs553
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
#!/usr/bin/sh
echo "Enter reason:"
echo "> \c"
read $reason
$reason >> access.log
This doesnt work for me. Can someone tell me how I would read the input from what the person types, and then append that to the log file?
Regards (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: alwayslearningunix
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