Summary: I need to calculate the Yesterday's date and received a good code from Unix forum. I need to assign the yesterdays Date (MONTH and DATE eg. 1229 for D...
Summary: Is it possible to use a shell script to login to a database (using Teradata), run a query and assign the query result to a local variable defined in t...
Summary: Hi, i have grepped a process number from a file & redirected to temp file. from temp file, I should assign process number to a variable "pnum". to ex...
Summary: Dear All, My OS : Solaris and Shell is ksh. I have a requirement to assign date to a variable. I tried following and failed. myvar=date '+ %y%m%d_%h' ...
Summary: Hi All, I need to do develop a script in ksh to do the following. Go to a particular directory (say /opt/alpha) List files (using ls -ralt) List the l...
Summary: Hi, I have a file with a path to a directory. Can I do 'cat' of that file and assign it to the variable? Thanks and regards Suresh sureshht...
Summary: Please give me some help on this shell script PLEASE. I'm very appreciate for your help. I need a script to run with two parameters: from-date (from-...
Summary: To add to above, if you want to have output assigned to a variable then you can modify the line head -$linenumber $filename|tee temp.txt|tail -1 temp....
Summary: Nish, If I am understanding you correctly, you just want the file extention for the last file in a directory assigned to a variable? In this case use ...
Summary: Thank you for your response on my previous question on "Reformatting the month of year"! I have another question regarding passing a variable to awk ...
Summary: Hello, I have a problem assigning two commands into one variable. i did the following CHK=`cat `cat $HOM/temp.log`` $CHK and i did: CHK="cat `cat $HOM...
Summary: Hi, I'm pretty new to korn shell scripting and I would like to know how to assign a variable to the results of an awk function. I am writing a korn sh...
Summary: Even after removing if statement also my variable is not assigned inside the script Try to give solution: in order to assign the value of a variable ...
Summary: I like to know how to remove '$' from a $ variable. I create a script, a.sh as below: #!/usr/bin/ksh a=`echo $1 | cut -d"\$" -f1` b=`echo $1 | cut -d"...
Summary: I am trying to assign a command line argument to a variable, i am running my script sending it one argument, i then set it to a variable by doing: VAR...
Summary: I was wondering if/how you can parse a variable to a function within a unix script (BASH). What I'm trying to do is print lines from my script to a fi...
Summary: Is there a way in the Bourne shell to build a variable name? I'm trying to do something like this: arg1="this is a message" i=1 foo=arg${i} echo foo #...
Summary: How can we put this value to a shell variable (in C Shell)? {print "I'm OK"} I've tried: set mystr="{print \"I'm OK\"}" set mystr='{print "I\'m OK"}' ...
Summary: how to pass a variable from unix environment to oracle procedure ? ex: actual_file_name=`head -1 $IMINT_OWBHOME/temp|tail -1` $ORA_BIN_HOME/sqlplus $I...
Summary: I have a file with the following sample format. "USEXPRR abc def" "USEXPDD ghi jkl" I am pattern matching the first field to assign the value of the f...
Summary: I need to replace anything immediately after the pattern "standard01/" in a file with the value of a variable I don't know the length of the characte...
Summary: I am trying to extract a sequence of numbers from a character string which is input by the user. I want to be able to remove all the alpha characters...
Summary: is there a way to do this in Korn Shell? given: joe_email="joe.smith@whatever.net" but I don't know the user without a variable: user="joe" ... how ca...
Summary: Hi, Can anyone tell me how to write a Unix ksh script to open a file (path provided) and assign a value to a variable in the file and then save the fi...
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