[shell-scripting] Forum Topics

Hi Team, I am stuck in a very tight situation.. need your help The below script does not work even please let me know where is the problem and rectify me. Script as below: replace.sh [code]#!/bin/bash file_name=$1 old_templet=$2 new_templet=$3 for file in file_name do cat $file | sed "s/old_templet/new_templet/g" > …

Hello all. New here. Another student looking for a little help. Technically I wouldn't consider this a homework question, as it is part of a much larger project for my class. My professor is little help so I'm here now. I hope you can help. I have a text file, …

Hi team, Well i have been asked to make use of automation scripts for my host production box.. .And i hope u will help me with the same. #script as below: a)when i run script it should ask the person to key in..(means should be interactive) b) it should search …

Hi All, I am new in SFTP. 1)I need to transfer the file from one server to another server. 2) I have written .com file in my ALPHA VMS system with SQLquery. 3) Usually I send .com file through NDM protocol. In this file i write NDM script in the …

I have declared a variable: [icode]today=$(date +%m/%d/%Y)[/icode] and I am trying to use sed to replace the word "in" with "out:date:name" but don't know the correct syntax to make $today print correctly. I have tried quotes and double quotes and brackets but to no avail. When I do it like …

The problem I'm having is that I want to read in whether the user wants to keep the spelling or change it, but the "read spelling" pulls from the 'line' and not from user input. my assignment description is as follows. Write a shell script that implements an interactive spell …

Hi, We are taking backups for ldap instances, and with the new requirement would like to keep 1 day's of backup to local disk (/export1) and rest 14 days backup to SAN (/export2). Now we are in kind of fix on how to move the backups ( includes files & …

hi, basically i am trying to write a quick script to remote copy something as follow. "" scp [email]user@192.168.1.5:/var/tmp/file.txt[/email] /var/tmp/newfile.txt "" if i do above cmd on the shell, i will be asked for password: my question is, how i do automate the password part within the shell script to …

Can any one please let me know how to connect to oracle retrieve data and work around the data through shell script. for example i have to get salary of 5 employees and add 500 to them and print them. thanks a ton in advance. Sriram

Can anybody help me with a unix script project that I have no clue on starting it, and also I 'm not that much familiar with unix scripting. Don't get me wrong have little bit experience with Linux, but when comes to script I'm just a beginner. If any someone …

Hi everyone, In part of my script, I'm trying cut out couple of columns from the df -h command. The ones I want is the Filesystem column and the Mounted On column. This is what I have so far. [CODE]df -h | cut -d " " -f1 [/CODE] And that …

Hi there, I have a unsolved problem here...my scripting do not go as I want, actually I want it to be solving the password in 10 seconds, but my scripting is run the timer and then only run the password solving.... anyone got any idea how to combine it?? [code]#!/bin/bash …

hi all, I have this file [myfile.txt] with some user data. example: $cat myfile.txt FName|LName|Gender|Company|Branch|Bday|Salary|Age aaaa|bbbb|male|cccc|dddd|19900814|15000|20| eeee|asdg|male|gggg|ksgu|19911216||| aara|bdbm|male|kkkk|acke|19931018||23| asad|kfjg|male|kkkc|gkgg|19921213|14000|24| aera|bprb|male|cccc|pppp||15000|20| . . . // and so on So what I want to do is to take out (to a file) the missing fields as following format: <FName> <LName> <Company> Missing …

Alright I admit, I hate AWK. Heck even my C++ class is making more sense at the moment. I have a strong suspicion that this is a language I will learn and never use again after this class, as everything else seems better/more intuitive. But maybe that's just me. I'm …

I just joined and I am new to scripting. Please can some one help me to put links to a file that has been already sorted. code below. grep -i $1 *html */*html | sed -e 's|<|.|g' -e 's|>|.|g' | sort | uniq -u >>output_file I need to put links …

Hi, I am not really good at shell scripting. I usually cut and paste from other scripts and customize it to do what I need. I am running Oracle 10g on AIX 5.3 machine and I need a script that does monitors a filesystem, I would say at least every …

hai dani, i have a problem with listing the contents of file in another directory. my default path is in /home/pallu where my file called DirProg script exists , now i want to find any file which starts with a or A in a dir and store the content in …

can anyone modify my code to make it recursive search of subdiretories, currently this code only can search of particular directory. #!/bin/bash if test $# -eq 0 ; then echo usage: "${0##/*} [Dir name]" exit fi for arg in $* ; do if test -e $arg ; then maxLen=0 # …

Hello dear people, I have a bit of a problem, I need to change something and I am not sure how. I need to change (see: Codification) To look like. [[Codification]] Of course the word codification can also look like (see: PrimaryLegislation) And then it needs to be [[Primary Legislation]] …

Hi guys, I've come to a road block so i need some help. 1)I have an exe which i need to run at start up. So I put the following bash file in the inid.d directory: [code] #!/bin/bash # # . /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions EXE_DIR="/root/monkey-0.9.2/bin/" EXE_NAME="monkey" ############################################################# #################### Functions ############################## ############################################################# function …

Hi, can anyone please help me on this. I dont understand as to why am getting this error.. Please, please help on this! fortesting purpose I have commented certain lines.. [CODE]"Pre_s2a_leadtime.sh" 55 lines, 1233 characters #!/bin/csh # Check if program is already running and echo a time stamp for the …

Hi, I am using a set of tools called FWTools which runs commands in the shell window. One command that I am using edits tif files by adding an overview to the file. The syntax is: gdaladdo -r average "D:\Map Files\Tiffs\ST00.TIF" 2 4 8 16 32 What I need to …

I have a problem with the Nesting of case statements. This is a Simple restaurant program which simulates food ordering. I used Case statements to Display Multiple nested menus base on the users choice But i seem to have a problem with the esac,seems my nesting is wrong.Pleas any help …

I am a beginner in shell programming in Unix. My current problem is log file analysis based on a given time range for listed dates. The file is a long file and I need to sort IPs based on a user input through terminal. For example, from the end of …

What am I doing wrong? [code=bash]for filename in /home/darragh/public_html/test/* do sed -i 's/..\/config/.\/config/g' done;[/code] It just gives me: sed: No input files

Hello, I'm new in shell scripting and i face some problems. I need your help to calculate a logarithmic expression in shell script for example i have 2 variables x1 x2 $x1=3 $x2=5 $Result=`expr x2 * log2 x1` ???? $echo "Result is $Result I know that this is wrong and …

Please I want to build a program in scripting that will start a timer from 60 seconds and decrement every second.There should be an input where the user should be able to enter the secret password to dis-activate the timer-bomb.If the user fails to enter the correct password 3 times …

hi all i want to add a pattern (say XYZ) after variable $lineNum in some tempFile. How do i do this, preferably using sed ? for eg. Initially line 1 line 2 Later line1 my pattern line2

Hi, I have a FTP shell script which is used to move the file from linux server to Windows FTP machine.Here my problem is some times because of network problem the files are not moving to FTP .Here i want to get the mail weather the files are moved to …

Please can i have the code of A shell script that will simulate food ordering system in a restaurant? Just a simple system will be helpful,i just want to learn and compare with other programming languages.Thanks