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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have created a function f1 defined in script A.sh .I have called this function in background . But I want to use its return value for another function f2 in script A.sh.
I tried declaring it as a global variable, yet it always returns the status as 0. Is there any way with which I can get... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: ashima jain
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2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hello, I'm currently implementing the && function in a shell using C. For example, if we input cmd1 && cmd2, then cmd2 executes only when cmd1 exits successfully. I'm thinking about:
int main() {
int i;
char **args;
while(1) {
printf("yongfeng's shell:~$ ");
args =... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: Yongfeng
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello Everyone,
I am writing a shell script to fetch log files from remote servers within a time range. It copies log files to local server, grep for date and then compares the time stamp of each log entry with the once specified.
Below is the code.
# Get log and Parsing function
... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: kanagalamurali
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Here is some back ground on the script. The script is to poll an arbitrary number of DB's. To do this I am creating a function that takes the file_path to the DB and the min poll interval as arguments. The function will be called for each DB and then ran in the background. The function I was... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: ryandavison
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Somebody on a thread in the (french) Mandriva Forum recently suggested a script, designed to provide a tool to display kind of "temporisation widgets" on the console (to be ultimately pasted in other more complex scripts).
One version of this script was something like the following, which seems... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: klease
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6. AIX
Our Aix Unix has one issue.
If I type xedit &
after 30 minutes, xedit auto shut down.
If I type xedit
xedit will run forward.
I feel this & doesn't perform as it should be.
When I use &, system consider this process as idle.
How to fix this issue?
Does this mean unix env... (12 Replies)
Discussion started by: david_hu_66
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Dear all,
I'm writing a KornShell script that calls inside it a function in background mode
#!/bin/ksh
function myfunction
{ . . .}
myfunction |&
. . .
How can I capture the PID of the function myfunction that runs in background?
Thanks in advance
:) (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: dariyoosh
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi all,
I am kinda new to this unix environment, and now I get confused to figure out this alias problem. I would like to make my xemacs to run in background every call, and I am trying to do it this way in .bashrc
alias e='xemacs &* & '
i also tried
e () { xemacs "&*" &}
but they are... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: hfireflyu
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9. Programming
consider the given prg.
main() {
.....
function1(); /* to write into a file or log */
printf(" ");
.....
}
when the control reaches function1(), it should get executed in the
background.At the same time main's printf(" ") statement should also get executed.i.e... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: bankpro
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