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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
Seeking for your assistance on how to put in variables all the commands in /bin
config files: /home/test/config_file/config.cfg
cat /home/test/config_file/config.cfg
ECHO=/bin/echo
LS=/bin/lsMain script
cat test.sh
source=/home/test/config_file/config.cfg
ECHO=$ECHO
LS=$LS#i... (3 Replies)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello I am hoping you may help.
I am not sure how to go about this exactly, I know the tools but not sure how to make them work together.
I have two SED commands that I would like to run in a shell script. I would like to take
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi there
I found the Command to send commands to other servers like:
sv01> ssh user@sv02 'ps -ef'
But I cant use Variables from a script i want to execute on another server like:
sv01> ssh user@sv02 'cd $SCRIPTHOME'
although the variable is set on sv01.
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
This is going to be part of a longer script with more features, but I have boiled it down to the one thing that is presently stumping me. The goal is a script which checks for updates to web pages that can be run as a cron job. The script reads (from a tab-delim file) a URL, an MD5 digest, and an... (1 Reply)
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Can I use my own variables within awk and sed for example:
I've written a while loop with a counter $i and I want to use the value of $i within sed and awk to edit certain lines of text within a data file.
I want to use :
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Like this:
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
hi all,
how do i subract variables in shell ?? am trying to space out the headers and the output generated by the shell so they all line up :
currently the output is like this :
servers : users
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi I'm trying to store commands in variables... like so..
# lastcmd=" $t1 | $t2 | $t3 | $t4 | sort | uniq"
t1="sed -e 's/http:/<li><a href=\"http:/'"
t2="sed -e 's/http:.*/&\">&<\/a>Web Link<br>/'"
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
The script I am writing must be able to run several commands (tar, gzip etc) on filenames that are supplied by variables. I am unsure as to what syntax is required/ideal when referencing variables in filenames. The following is a sample command that I would like the script to execute:
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I'm back!
Ok, I'm trying to use a variable with a value of a unix command.
So when I try a=`ls`, then echo $a I get the correct answer.
But when I try it with a pipe:
a=`ls | wc -c`, then echo $a I get:
filename: a: command not found
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