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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Oracle Linux : 6.4/bash shell
In the below I want to break out of the loop when it enters the 5th iteration.
#!/bin/bash
for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6
do
echo "$i"
if
echo "Oh Nooo... i = $i. I need to stop the iteration and jump out of the loop"
then break
fi
done
But, it only... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: John K
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
I'm obviously very new to this. I'm trying to write a simple for loop that will read the directory names in /Users and then copy a file into the same subdir in each user directory.
I have this, and it works but it isn't great.
#!/bin/bash
HOMEDIRS=/Users/*
for dirs in $HOMEDIRS; do
if ];... (5 Replies)
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3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
Sorry if this is a newbie question. I guess you can use either awk or shell script for this sequence of operations, but knowing very little about either of them I'm not sure how I should try to write this.
The basic objective is to copy certain files that are scattered all over my... (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: pc2001
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
OS : RHEL 6.1
Shell : Bash
I had a similair post on this a few weeks back. But I didn't explain my requirements clearly then. Hence starting a new thread now.
I have lots of files in /tmp/stage directory as show below.
I want to loop through each files to run a command on each file.
I... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: kraljic
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi, I am trying to make a script to manage log. I want to write the name of the .gz I moved and the date :
for i in `ls $replog/*.gz`
do
echo " $i "
`echo $i date +%d:%m:%Y`
`echo $datee `>> $replog/mrnet.log
mv $i /var/log/vieux-logs
done
I need to echo... (10 Replies)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
hey guys
I would really appreciate some help, i need to do a project for a job that requires minimal UNIX scripting and im REALLY stuck
basically Im stuck at what i believe is something really simple but i just dont have a clue how to do it efficiently and properly and i REALLY appreciate some... (16 Replies)
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have a loop like this -
while read item
do
// fire insert query
done < itemList.txt
The itemList.txt has say, 1000 records. Now what I do is that rhough another program, I make the itemList.txt EMPTY, but still the INSERT query keeps firing the sequence of records.
... (18 Replies)
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi everyone - just like to say great forum...I've learned a lot off here but I just can't figure this one out...(first post)
I'm writing a script to monitor a directory and email the latest modified file....(I realize there are better ways than I'm trying here...I don't like copying and pasting... (5 Replies)
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
sorry for being dumb here, but is there a way my for loop can take an entire line of a file into consideration instead of each word in a line... ill explain
if i have a file like this
# cat list
serial: 23124
hostname: server1
and a script that does this
# cat list.sh
#!/bin/sh
... (6 Replies)
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi! I have a simple question about using a for loop.
I'm trying to open up all the zip files in the currect directory with ark, but I am getting the error "bash: syntax error near unexpected token `for $i ; do ark $i ; done ;
I looked in the info pages for bash, but I can't seem to figure... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Orange Stripes
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