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1. Cybersecurity
A severe vulnerability was discovered in Bourne shell.
Just google for: bash vulnerability
... for more details. (5 Replies)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Could some one tell me the difference btw Bourne shell and the Kshell? Which is more flexible and reliable in terms of portability and efficiency. When i type the following command ..
$ echo $SHELL
yields me
/bin/sh
Does this tells me that I am in Bourne shell. If yes, how can i get... (6 Replies)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Exercise Five
Write a Bourne shell script which:
• Professionalism: plan for this from the start.
• Has one command line argument.
• If the command line argument is a directory then the script should output the number of
files in the directory.
• If the command line argument is an ordinary... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: moesom
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4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Here's the input:
alpha, numeric or alphanumeric string ("line 1 string")
numeric string ("line 2 string")
numeric string ("line 3 string")
numeric string ("line 4 string")
...
where
- each numeric string is in a pattern that can be matched with RE but
- there can be any number of... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: uiop44
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All
I have writing a Korn Shell script to execute it on many of our servers. But some servers don't have Korn Shell installed, they use Borne Shell.
Some operations like calculation don't work :
cat ${file1} | tail -$((${num1}-${num2})) > ${file2}
Is it possible to activate Korn Shell... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: madmat
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
I do not claim to be an expert, but I have done things with scripts that whole teams of folks have said can not be done. Of course they should have said we do not have the intestinal fortitude to git-r-done.
I have been using UNIX actually HPUX since 1992. Unfortunately my old computer died and... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: awk_sed_hello
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi!
I have here a simple script to change the advskew on carp interfaces. The first is working, but the part for status, where a for is within a if/else delivers everyime only the action for the value "prod". Even when i use type test or dev. Where did i made the mistake?
# $Log:... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: locutus01
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
Must be something obvious I am missing, but the simple script below doesn't work.
#!/bin/sh
x=4
if
then
echo "x is $x"
elsif
then
echo "x is greater than 4"
else
echo "x is less than 4"
fi
When I run this script, I get the error message:
7: Syntax error... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: leostar_10
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi guys !!
well i'm still new in learning UNIX , and actually i'm still studying it by myself ..
anyway, some people told me the Bourne-again shell is a good version of UNIX to work on , and i tried to download yesterday but i didn't know how to start it ...... the ReadMe file associated with... (3 Replies)
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
In one of my scripts I do the following
sort +0 x > y
mv y x
In my script x and y are fully qualified. This works 99% of the time. However once in a while the system comes back and says that is cannot access y in the mv command.
I did some research and I suspect that if I insert a... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: gillbates
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