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1. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
Hi,
I am a beginner in Unix. Now I am learning setting up variables. However, I am receiving an error. Can anyone please help me with it
My command as
Test=unixprogramming
returns the error command not found.
(I am using FreeBSD Unix and in my terminal, it is ~% instead of $ . is the... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: kgopan
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have some hundreds/thousands of files named logX.dat, where X can be any integer, and they are sequential, X ranges between 1 and any number:
log1.dat log2.dat log3.dat log6.dat log10.dat ... log6000.dat
I would like to rename them to
scatter_params_0001.dat... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: pau
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3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
#!/bin/bash
if ; then
ASS1_DATA_DIR=./
echo $ASS1_DATA_DIR
export ASS1_DATA_DIR
echo "data dir"
fi
if ; then
ASS1_OUTPUT_DIR=./
export ASS1_OUTPUT_DIR
fi
I want to create a new environment variable ASS1_DATA_DIR and ASS1_OUTPUT_DIR in bash and set them to the current... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: bigubosu
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4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
hi all,
I would appreciate if some one could explain me the difference between setting up the variables as shown below
HOME=${HOME:-"/home/user1"}
HOME=/home/user1 (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: SSSB
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5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi all,
I have a shell script that sets up the environment for an application running on UNIX - ksh. This script is run using:
. ./script_name XX
where XX is a parameter. I want to run it from another shell script but when I do it I don't get the envornment variables set up and the prompt... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: solar_ext
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6. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
i have a file .NAMEexport MY_NAME=JOE
when i do this at the command prompt #. .NAME
$echo MY_NAME
$JOEi created a script called Run.sh . .NAME At the command prompt i did #sh Run.sh
#echo $MY_NAMEit returns nothing. What have i missed out? (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: new2ss
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
I'm not quite sure what I'm doing wrong here.
I've go several jobs which print reports. Occassionally a printer will break down and reports need to be move to another printer. Rather than hard code the printer names in our scripts I'm trying to set these programatically
using our function... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: BCarlson
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hello,
I want to set some environment variables with this script:
ip=$@
echo Remote Computer: $ip
PERLDB_OPTS="CallKomodo=$ip:9000 RemotePort=$ip:9010 PrintRet=0"
export PERLDB_OPTS
PERL5LIB=/opt/komodo
export PERL5LIB
echo PERLDB_OPTS: $PERLDB_OPTS
echo PERL5LIB: $PERL5LIB
But it... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: Gargamel
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi everyone,
I am trying to set up the .profile for a user I have just created. In trying to set up the shell variables, I want to make the shell be korn shell (default shell i believe is Borne shell), so, this is what I did:
SHELL=/usr/bin/ksh
export SHELL
Whenl executing the .profile,... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: rachael
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