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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi folks,
I am new to bash scripting so please excuse my question.
Is there any chance to combine a case structure with the read command?
Like
case (read -p "" variable) in
x)
Thx! (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: haukee
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
while true
do
printf "$FBOLD\nPlease enter the minutes (0-59): $FREG"
read MIN
case "$MIN" in
||s) break 2;;
*)
echo ""
echo "Invalid minutes, please try again.";;
esac
done
In the above... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: milink
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
What is the command to change the contents of a file to UPPER case. Here in this file below you see some characters are Sp, Ch
1200812270046581
22885072800000652 B86860003OLFXXX592123320081227
22885029800000652 B86860003ODL-Sp592123420081227
22885093700000652-B94030001ODL-Ch592123520081227... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: kshuser
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
hi all,
is there a storage structure in ksh which only allows unique values i.e overwrites duplicates values ??
am using an array to hold server names from a 'find' command but some of the names are repeated. Is there an easy way to remove the duplicates ??
ta. (2 Replies)
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5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hello Experts,
I was wondering how can we get a fall trough case structure.
Eg: If we have two cases A and B and a default; if I do not break after A, it should execute all the statements of A as well as B if I break after B else fall through even lower.
I tried this:
#!/bin/sh
v1=1... (6 Replies)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am trying to write a ksh script using the case statement to select certain directories to remove. The directories that I am looking for are in the following format 2008-10-10. I want to exclude all other files/directories that contain anything other the 4 digit year,a dash, 2 digit month, a... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: dgilc
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
Can anyone help me with the following case structure?
echo "Please enter the date for which you want the Report:\c"
read dat
d1=`echo $dat|cut -c7-8`
m1=`echo $dat|cut -c5-6`
y1=`echo $dat|cut -c1-4`
yr=`expr "$d1" - 1`
case "$yr" in
0)
MONTH=`expr "$m1" - 1`... (4 Replies)
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
I'm trying to run a ksh script with a case condition to handle parameters.
#!/bin/ksh
db_start(){
*code
}
db_shut(){
*code
}
case "$1" in
up)
db_start TRNG
;;
down)
db_shut TRNG
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $0 { up | down }" (3 Replies)
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Isn't any "NOT" operator that can be used in the case construction like :
case $VAR (NOT) in
option1 | option2 | option 3...) COMMAND ;;
esac
Or something similiar to the "default" from switch, so I could at least do something like this:
case $VAR in
... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: 435 Gavea
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hello,
I am having a problem setting a range of numbers for the "case" structure.
I can use with no problems, but
when I use it doesn't work???
Does the case struture allow numeric ranges?
eg:
echo -e "enter number between 0 and 60: \c"
read $answer
case $answer in
) echo... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Joe54321
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