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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi ,
I'm facing a different behaviour with one of my shell script for last few days. It was working good before that.
here is my code for the script FileRemove.sh
#get the file name#
file1=$1
file2=$2
rm $file1 # delete the old file
mv $file2 <target path> #move the new file to the target... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: poova
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
$ ls -1
a.1
b.1
x_a.1
x_b.1
$ ls -1 *
b.1
x_a.1
x_b.1
$ ls -1 **
a.1
b.1
x_a.1
x_b.1The last result is not as expected.
Why?
Thanks. (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: carloszhang
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3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
hi guys,
jus some file globbing questions
sed "s/^.*on//"
what does the full stop and asterisk means?
i onli know that ^ means inverse or not (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: ment0smintz
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi guys,
Here is a simple script. It writes the current time to specific files in a directory.
The arguments are the names of the files to write the date to (without path nor extension).
root:~# cat /usr/local/bin/dummy.sh
#!/bin/sh -e
for file in $@; do
date >> /var/lib/$file.dat... (11 Replies)
Discussion started by: chebarbudo
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Just started learning bash ,and I am confused with sintaksis
line 16: syntax error near unexpected token `else'
thanks
#!/bin/bash
echo -n "Enter: "
read num
if(($(echo ${#num}) == 0 ))
then
echo No arguments passed.Try again
elif
rem=$(echo $num | tr -d )
... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: lio123
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
I would like to know the version of my shell. I usually type "sh scriptName".
I googled for it and they usually say bash --version.
But is the same shell ? Can I have installed multiple shells ?
thanks (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: aneuryzma
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I am writing a BASH script. In a directory I have a bunch of files of various filename structures. How do I list all the filenames that begin with either a capital or lowercase A or T. Is there one command that could replace the following 4:
ls A*
ls a*
ls T*
ls t*
Thanks.
Mike (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: msb65
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
How can I pass in an argument such as "*.k" to a bash script
without having to double-quote *.k and not having *.k
`glob` to match all files in the pattern?
I tried using noglob in my script but this didn't work the way I thought
it would.. expansion is still occuring, $# is higher than I... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: zoo591
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi Guys,
I found this script for monitoring the status of a services:
for i in syslogd cron; do
if && ;
then
printf "%-8s" "$i";printf " is alive=A\n"
else
printf "%-8s" "$i";printf " is not alive\n"
fi
The script is working fine except if either syslogd or cron will have a defunct... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: itik
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am on HP-UX and I am trying to come up with a method to call in a list of files named like so.
filename020107.dat filename020207.dat filename020307.dat
Obviously I can list them ls them like so, ls filename*.dat. In case you did not notice the number is a date and I was hoping to match... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: scotbuff
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