General :: Experimenting With Shell Variables?
Oct 12, 2010Explain the following unexpected results
$ whereis date
date: /bin/date ?
$ echo $ PATH
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Explain the following unexpected results
$ whereis date
date: /bin/date ?
$ echo $ PATH
[code]...
in gnuplot it's possible to set the value of a variable via linux shell command.or instance we can do
Code:
a="`echo 1`"
b="`echo 2`"
[code]...
Ive created some custom shell scripts to run during the kernels boot process (they are called from the init script).I was wondering if there's any way to assign a variable that can be accessed between different scripts.For example my first script checks which type of pc i am installing on and assigns the hard drive location to a variable.HARDDRIVE = "/dev/sda1"at the end of the script it calls another script. In this script I cant reference HARDDRIVE as it is blank, to get around this I need to repeat the same code for assigning it.Its more of a space/aesthetics issue but I figured someone might know the solution off the top of their head
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Code:
a="1245"
[-n $a]
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I have been give a task of replicating one of our production systems to create a test system. I have been restricted to use c shell to set up its environment variables. I am new to this my questions is how do i set environment variables for a particular user on c shell e.g ORACLE_HOME and ORACLE_SID permanently for a particualar user i know in bash you edit the .bash_profile file. What do i do for c shell?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a user that has been used for long time now that runs o C Shell... now there is a need to change it to Bash Shell? Can I cause a problem changing his shell from C to bash? I mean apps or variables?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI hav a shell script that outputs few variables. i want to output them in a table format. any unix commands?
The output i need is:
I'm running into a problem when I try to set a variable to an awk output in c-shell. Right now my command is Code: set STR_MSG_TYPE = `awk -F{ '/msg_type/ {print $2}' <filename> | tr -d }'/''*' ` I then run echo to see what the output is and it returns blank, however, when I run the same awk command from the command line, I get an actual output of "MT-715". Am I setting my variable incorrectly? I do something similar using the date command to set a STR_DATE variable earlier in the code and it works fine and I use the same syntax.
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Code:
TMPDIR=`mktemp -d`
mkdir $TMPDIR/old/
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I've got a CGI that I'm trying to debug. Apache gives me an ambiguous 500 error; it would be nice to see the raw output via the shell. I've got the POST request w/headers as follows. What's the best way to troubleshoot this?
POST /cgi/packBoxes.cgi HTTP/1.1
Host: 70.87.60.214
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
[code].....
Somehow I'm not really managing this thing, which would d be a nice way to useariables.What I am doing is setting up compound variable in ksh. What I have is a "config" file, which has fields delimited by a semicolon
Code:
cat ${CONFIGFILE} | grep -v "^#" | grep -v "^$" | while read line
do
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I'm aware that one can export make variables to other makefiles; however, how does one export them to the environment of $(shell)? Take the example below:
Code:
export TEST
VARIABLE=$(shell echo $$TEST)
.PHONY: all
all:
#$(VARIABLE)
In this example, I might call make TEST=test. The goal is for $TEST to be available to the environment of the shell escape. This is because I need its value in a script which is called. For example:
Code:
VARIABLE=$(shell i-need-TEST.sh)My current solution is the following:VARIABLE=$(shell export TEST="$(TEST)"; i-need-TEST.sh) but this only works if I know all if the variables needed at that point (as opposed to being able to export variables in included makefiles.) Is there an easy solution?
I have a question concerning indexing over lists with unix shell scripts. I have very large text files (up to 20 Gb) with the data shown below:
80011412865610
43000216943210
4710510513101
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I have an RHEL 5 server joined to a windows domain. However I wanted to add variable lines to be executed each time a user logs in. However I succeeded to put them in /etc/bashrc file and it worked like a charm.
But its annoying that everytime the user logs in to the shell remotely it displays the whole variables that were declared. Is there a way how to add them once and not to display the output each time the user logs in?
I'm trying to write a simple shell script, its purpose is not important. The script needs to make use of the system $HOSTNAME environment variable. I had a look at this page which provides the following example.
Code:
#!/bin/sh
echo "You are user $UID on $HOSTNAME"
echo "Your home directory is: $HOME"
echo "$HOSTNAME is running $OSTYPE"
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I am trying to modify a script for research purposes and am having difficulty here as I have little prior experience with C-shell scripting.
The script looks as follows (it includes tcl commands like runFEP that you can ignore)
#!/bin/bash
for ((old=1, new=2; old<=4; old++,new++))
a1=${old}%50
a2=${new}%50
do
cat > input${new}.conf <<EOF
${a1}
code....
My question: I keep getting a syntax error when defining my two variables a1 and a2. I essentially need these variables to be
a1 = value of variable old divided by 50
a2 = value of variable new divided by 50
mkvmerge -o <filename without extension>_TV.mkv -S <filename> && mkvextract tracks <filename> 3:<filename without extension>.*** && perl /home/brian/Desktop/ass2srt.pl <filename without extension>.*** && rm <filename without extension>.***
Doing these commands for multiple command line file inputs is the goal. So I can just type ./script.sh *.mkv in my terminal.This is what I have so far, but it doesn't work whatsoever.
MACHINE: HP Proliant DL260G5OS: SLES 11 SP1kernel: Linux xserver 2.6.32.12-0.7-default #1 SMP 2010-05-20 11:14:20 +0200 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/LinuxIt is used as remote xserver in a LAN.I have configured /usr/lib/restricted/bin/.rbashrc with some environment variables but when the users logon in the system finally is executed $HOME/.bashrc and some environment vars are overwritten.
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View 3 Replies View Relatedusing variables in CURL.Here's my code:
transfer_to_pcid="AAAAAAAA"
transfer_from_pcid="BBBBBBBB"
basic_password=`ssh rsync@some_test_domain 'curl --silent
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I am wondering if I can open a shell or new terminal thing from within the terminal in a unix/linux enviroment. Particularly a commandline only one where there is no GUI. Is this doable? how do I do it?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am running Red Hat Linux Enterprise 5; I am always using the export command to set environment variables.Are there any other ways to set environment variables and what are the advantages/disadvantages of them?
View 4 Replies View RelatedIs there a difference when variables are referred to as $variableName and ${variableName} in bash?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have installed RDGEN which comes with VPFIT package. When I run the program it says:
"Failed to find help file"
But I ran the program from its main directory where all the files including help files exist. I think maybe the problem is because of this that THEY say:
"Some environment variables should be set before starting RDGEN".
But I do not know what does this mean and how to do that.
These are the variables:
-ATOMDIR
-RD PRSETUP
-RD PRSETUP
-RDSTART
-VPFSETUP
-VPFPLOTS
Would it be possible for you to tell me what does Setting Variable means in this case?
I have question regarding concatenation of two variables with underscore.i.e. (bourne shell)
Code:
# var1=123
# var2=456
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he $g09root is picked up ( in both the csh and the bash), but not the $GV_DIR or the $GAUSS_SCRDIR. I guess it's some stupid error, but it is highly frustrating.Here is the .profile file:Quote:
# To make use of this feature, simply uncomment one of the lines below or
# add your own one (see /usr/share/locale/locale.alias for more codes)
#
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Is there a command that can list the variables that I am using in a script? I mean the variables that I created in the script not the environment or local variables. For example if I have a script that has the following var's like : name=Alex, age=20, postal_code=12345, how can I list them all @ once WITHOUT using echo $name, $age and so on. Imagine I have a lot of variables and i can't echo them all.
View 2 Replies View RelatedIn the following lines I am trying to replace Puppy Linux 5.0 Released with the content of external variable Var. Following lines are in a file called news
Code:
<A title="Puppy Linux 5.0 Released" href="http://lwn.net/Articles/388754/" rel=bookmark><FONT color=#ffffff size=2><STRONG>Puppy Linux 5.0 Released
</STRONG></A><STRONG> | </STRONG>
I have tried following.
Code:
awk -v var=NewNews '/title="[^"]*/{n+=1}{if (n==1){sub(/title="[^"]*/,"title="$var",$0)};print }' news
But it is replacing Puppy Linux 5.0 Released as $var, not with the contents of var.
I am trying to rename a list of variables in my script using a second list of variables. I want the variables in the second list to replace the variables in the first list such that the first variable in List 1 is renamed after the first variable in List 2, the second variable in List 1 is renamed after the second variable in List 2, the third variable in List 1 is renamed after the third variable in List 2, and so on.
For example:
I know how to rename each file individually, but would like to run Do Loop which can rename all my output files at once.
I set a variable before entering the FTP session (vDate). Then it does not seem to resolve when I try to use it in the session as part of an mput command. $vDate resolves as an empty value. Can you point me in the right direction?
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