Summary: I want to read in arguments from command line and store that in a variable. so I have a program call mycal, and it takes in many arguments: mycal jan ...
Summary: Hi I have tried diff, and it does not give me what i need. I am unsure of the code needed to read in one line at a time of an external file and then u...
Summary: I have written a script to login to various network equip and perform automated functions. Is there a way to hide the input from the keyboard on read...
Summary: Since you asked "can it be done in the Korn shell", the answer is yes. Best way is to write a simple script that accepts an argument. #!/bin/ksh exec ...
Summary: Have a script that reads a file and processes each line. The script fails if the data in the file has a %. Is there any way that the script could rea...
Summary: Hello, I need to create a korn shell script that will read columns from a seperate file. For instance: filename: inventory color size type red ...
Summary: Hi All, I'm trying to open a file and read its data. The file is "a.txt" which contains: foo bar asdf gfdh I want to open this file and read the varia...
Summary: If you have a variable number of fields, then read in the line instead of having the while loop do the parsing. This line: set - $(echo $line) parses...
Summary: I am trying to write a script that will accept unlimited number of arguments and will check each one to see if it is a directory and if it is how many...
Summary: Sorry - I think maybe I missed a step in the explanation of what the command is doing. In it's original form the command will read in the lines from t...
Summary: It's been a while since I wrote a script, so I thought I would ask for help. Here is my dilemma. I want to write a script that will do the following...
Summary: You could try a small script to read in the filename and then output it as a differnt one. ls |grep abc* |cut -c 4-20 > file1 read varible1 file1 mov...
Summary: Hi all, I'm having problems reading in data from a data file when I use the cat command within a ksh script. I want to read in the whole line at a tim...
Summary: You have written the contents of the files test1 and test2 as though you intended them to be executable scripts by making the first line '#!/bin/ksh' ...
Summary: I need to find the filed locations that match a regexp, in 1st line, then use that field value to print the data in the same locations from the rest...
Summary: We do not need a next command for the last if-statement. A next command terminates processing of the current line, which is often needed for your log...
Summary: Hello all, I'm having a problem with one part of my KSH script. Below is the script and OutPut. What I would like to do next is combine field 1 "exam...
Summary: Here is a piece of code that opens a directory and prints out the contents and counts the files. It compiles under gcc on cygwin with no errors. It ...
Summary: Get a copy of "The New Kornshell" by Morris I. Bolsky and David G. Korn. On page 276 is a version of the grep command written in Kornshell. You can ...
Summary: I constantly keep reading in newsgroups and BBs about the headaches involved in trying to configure systems to have dual/multiple boots. In lieu of go...
Summary: Is it possible to store variables in a hexadecimal format? I've read an earlier post explaining how to convert decimal to hex, and that works fine, b...
Summary: You may be out of disk work space. Jerry explains at: http://www.computing.net/unix/wwwboard/forum/6035.html how to change the vi work directory to o...
Summary: Here's a Perl command line that does an inline edit of the file without creating seperate file. perl -pi -e 's/^/set cen_loc /;' filename However, the...
Summary: I am trying to read in 2 values from user input prompt, and if the second value is less than the first, I would like to re-prompt the user for value 2...
![[higher confidence]](http://static.computing.net/img/AT-red_x.gif)
- higher confidence, ![[lower confidence]](http://static.computing.net/img/AT-black_x.gif)
- lower confidence
