Programming :: Ignore Case In If Statement Shell Scripting

Feb 3, 2010

How do i make my strings case-insensitive while comparing them with an if statement?

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General :: Script (Case & IF Statement Syntax) - Easy To Answer If Know Shell Scripting

May 6, 2011

Im a bit stuck with a simple script that im practicing with... im trying to get my head around some simple scripting. Basically i want to write a script that will work as below: It will ask the user to enter their userid. If its correct it will say 'Correct' If its the wrong id (But the ID exists in /etc/passwd) then it will say 'incorrect' If its not a valid userid it will say 'doesnt exist'. What i have so far is:

[Code]...

# If the user enters their own userid they will get a comment saying 'correct' $LOGNAME) echo "Correct";;

# If they enter another users ID (That exists in the /etc/passwd), then they get a message to say 'incorrect userid used'. Im not sure what i need to do here to get it to check the /etc/passwd to see if the input exists in there.... im guessing some kind of simple 'if' statement to say ---- "if 'input' exists in /etc/passwd then echo "incorrect userid used"

# If its entered incorrectly and not a valid ID then they will get this comment. Again, im guessing this part would be similar to te above option..... *) echo "not a valid ID";;

Ive managed to work out how the basic Case staements work, but to add a conditional statement based on the input, i just cant figure out. I have tried looking on google, and found some help but it doesnt really explain how i check the input against the /etc/passwd.

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Oct 6, 2010

I've written a simple perl code to learn switches in perl.My code is pasted below,

#!/usr/bin/perl
$opt = 1;
switch($opt) {

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Jun 28, 2010

We are building our C++ project in Kdevelop IDE. Every time we run "Run Configure" from the "Build" menu, a file named "libtool" gets automatically generated. This file contains a statement as "ECHO="echo"".f we run "Automake", without modifying the "libtool" the system hangs and theputer needs to be restarted.Therefore every time we run "Run Configure" we need to include the line "echo="echo"" below the statement "ECHO="echo"" manually.I think a script can be written which does the above on its own.I am not a shell script programmer, I know the good tutorials for shell scripts are available on the net, but learning scripting only for this task would be time-consuming and painful.

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Programming :: Scanner - Completely Ignore The Kbd.nextLine Statement

Nov 12, 2010

This is what I have

Code:

When I run the program it will print

Quote:

rather than

Quote:

And completely ignore the kbd.nextLine statement.

However, when I write next instead of nextLine, it works.

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Programming :: BASH - Regex In A Case Statement?

Jun 9, 2010

the following works and BASH doesn't complain, but VIM highlights the closing square bracket is if it sees a syntax error. Is there a better way to express regex in a case statement or is this an issue with VIM?

Code:
#!/bin/bash
case $1 in

[code]...

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Programming :: Escape '*' In Case Statement Bash

Jan 23, 2010

Does it possible to escape * in the case statement

Code:

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Programming :: Case Statement Passing Multiple Arguments?

Aug 7, 2010

I've started dabbling with the case statement in order to pass some option's arguments into variables. I do not think I am doing this right.

Code:

usage() {
echo "Usage: $0 [-z|--snooze] [-c|--channel] [-p|--playlist]
[-m|--message] [-v|--mpcvolume]"

[code]....

As you can see, I want to pass arguments depending on the option(s) chosen by the user; ie. --snooze, or --channel. By default, if no options are chosen, I'll display a usage message; though in the future I'll provide some sane defaults. I'd like to create a case statement to handle passing arguments to any number of options; something like:

Code:

wakethehellup.sh --snooze 20 --message 'wake up!'

and for the other arguments, it would have a default set. The case statement I provided fails with a syntax error "syntax error near unexpected token `$2'" near the '--snooze' in the statement, so I take it you can't pass a parameter in this way; but I'm confused as to how I'm supposed to pass different parameters to different options without the options being confused as parameters.

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Programming :: Shell Scripting / Create A Shell Script Similar To Ls?

Jun 5, 2011

I am trying to create a shell script similar to ls, but which only lists directories. I have the first half working (no argument version), but trying to make it accept an argument, I am failing. My logic is sound I think, but I'm missing something on the syntax.

Code:
if [ $# -eq 0 ] ; then
d=`pwd`
for i in * ; do
if test -d $d/$i ; then
echo "$i:"
code....

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Programming :: Ignore / Disable Ctrl-C (SIGINT) In Shell Script

Jan 6, 2010

How do I write my trap statement in shell script to ignore SIGINT.Reason being is that the script is used to update records in database. I want to avoid inconsistency in database when user presses Ctrl-C .The result should be

1. Totally ignore Ctrl-C (SIGINT) when user presses Ctrl-C
2. Continue with the rest of processing

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General :: Case Statement In Shel Programing?

Mar 15, 2010

I am facing problem with the following script. Could you please look into this.echo 'Enter Staging number' case $STGNUM in

1)
for i in {'stg1-greg','stg1-marsha','stg1-peter','stg1-jan','stg2-greg','stg2-marsha','stg2-peter','stg2-jan'};do echo $i; ssh $i sudo -u dev /opt/usr/apps/workflow/stopwf.sh;done;

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General :: Ignore Case Only For Part Of Regular Expression

Feb 15, 2010

What I want to achieve is, if I have following in my file:
x y
X z
I should be able to find the pair, x Y and replace it with x a. So, basically I want to search for case sensitive 'x' but search and replace case insensitive 'y'. How should I do it? Can this be achieved with 'sed' command?

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Programming :: Shell Scripting Array - Bad Substitution

Jun 19, 2009

I made a little rsync script for log transfer.

Code:
SERVERS=(SERVER1 SERVER2 SERVER3)
SERVER1_SERV=(web ftp mail)
SERVER2_SERV=(web transcoding)
SERVER3_SERV=(web ftp mail)
for SERVER in ${SERVERS[@]}
do
echo "Starting tranfer for server $SERVER"
for SERVICE in ${$SERVER_$SERVICE[@]}
do
something_to_be_done
fi
done
But when I run it I get ${$SERVER_$SERVICE[@]}: bad substitution

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Sep 5, 2010

How do I create a user account in a shell script? I know this may sound n00bish to you, but I know it's more than just mkdir-ing the home directory and subdirectories.

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Dec 2, 2010

I need to part a string into separate integers ....like "0x0-0xffffffff,0x20000" into 3 integers 0x0 and 0xfffffff and 0x20000.... i can't use any other high-level languages ..

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Mar 15, 2011

I got two cgi shell scripting files. Is it possible when i am in file 1, to call a function from file 2?

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Mar 8, 2010

I want to compare the following two tab-delimited .txt files (both were subsets of the original files) by comparing Columns 3 and 4 simultaneously. It is easy to compare C3 because both C3s are just numbers. But how to compare C4s?Basically, in File1, "G,G" = G in File2, "C,C" = C in File2, "A,A" = A in File2, "T,T"= T in File2.In File2, A/T in Column4 just equals "A,T" or "T,A" in Column4 of File1. C/T in Column4 just equals "C,T" or "T,C" in Column4 of File1, and etc.

File1:

C1C2 C3C4
ih509rs12345467244750"G,G"
ih499rs6049687244911"C,C"
ih508- 7244977"A,A"

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Mar 11, 2011

I have a QNX machine with a slinger webserver running on it. With a cgi script i'm trying to do the QNX cksum call and compare it's output value with a fixed output. When i execute the script at the command line it works perfect, but when execute this script by by the webserver in my browser it doesn't work. Here's my code:

#!/bin/sh
FILE="/home/checkfile"
ORIGCHECK="1712885500"

[code].....

Could it be possible that i'm not allowed to do the cksum call in combination with the slinger webserver?

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Jul 3, 2011

so I wrote a simple script to scrape whatsmyip.org for my public IP address and then email it to me if it has changed. I set this up as a cron job ever 30mins.the problem is, it works for about 18 hours and then will have an issue where it says "line 33: [: too many arguments" Which line 33 happens to be my if statement. Now like I said it works fine for about 18 hours, i run the script with 2>&1 to a .out file so i can see what its doing...this is the output of the .out file, the "xxx" does actually show the ip.."PHP Code:

xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
already in file
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

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Server :: Case Statement With Regular Expressions - Date Manipulation Script

Aug 19, 2010

Here's my need:
If Calendar Day= Then FCPeriod= And FCYear=
Jan 11 to Feb 1002Current Year of Feb 10
Feb 11 to Mar 1003Current Year of Mar 10
Mar 11 to Apr 1004Current Year of Apr 10
Apr 11 to May 1005Current Year of May 10
May 11 to June 1006Current Year of June 10
June 11 to July 1007Current Year of July 10
July 11 to Aug 1008Current Year of Aug 10
Aug 11 to Sept 1009Current Year of Sept 10
Sept 11 to Oct 1010Current Year of Oct 10
Oct 11 to Nov 1011Current Year of Nov 10
Nov 11 to Dec 1012Current Year of Dec 10
Dec 11 to Jan 1001* Current Year of Jan 10

* Note for Dec 11 - Dec 31,
The Next Year to be used
IE: Current date is Dec 28th, 2010. Year = 2011
IE: Current date is Jan 8th, 2011, Year = 2011.
Looks like I'll need a case statement with some regular expressions...

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Apr 5, 2011

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

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Jun 24, 2011

I'm writing a script and I have doubts on how to assign values to an already established variable. The value for the vatriable would be coming from a file with three columns. I'm using the awk command for this. Am I doing it correctly? which of the following two ways is the better one or if both are wrong which one should I use?

#!/bin/nsh
inputfile=$1
rolename=$2

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Nov 6, 2010

The two shell scripts (t1prog and t2prog) are given below they are working fine. The input for the first program is 't1.det' and for second program is 't1.rnaml'. These two input files are in 'dir1' folder. I am executing the shell like 'sh t1prog > t1out' and 'sh t2prog > t2out' from this directory only. Then I am executing a java program 'java RNA'; for this, t1out and t2out are input files used in the program and I am getting the final output on screen.

The input files 't1.det' and 't1.rnaml' are in different folders with same name and with different values. Each folder specifies one gene sequence input files.

In mfold directory there are 5 directors and each directory contains these input files as shown below
cd mfold
dir1 dir2 dir3 dir4 dir5
cd dir1
t1.det t1.rnaml

[Code].....

for inputs in different directories and executing these and redirecting the final ouput after executing 'java RNA' statement to a file is needed.

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Programming :: Shell Scripting - Value Disappears Depending On Argument Order

Mar 21, 2011

Examples:
Code:
$ ./test.sh -a -c 2
operator is -gt
remcount is
^ value missing!

Code:
$ ./test.sh -b -c 2
operator is -lt
remcount is
^ value missing!

Yet when "-c" is the first argument, its value is present:
Code:
$ ./test.sh -c 2 -b
operator is -lt
remcount is 2
What could I do to ensure the value of "-c" is picked up regardless of the argument order?

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Sep 6, 2010

I have two files, uploads.txt and downloads.txt. I would like to combine the columns of these files based on the ip address. How can I best do this?

Uploads.txt Code: 192.168.0.147 1565369
192.168.0.13 1664855
192.168.0.6 1332868 Downloads.txt Code: 192.168.0.147 9838820

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Jul 22, 2011

I have written the following script in my linux server to add users for LDAP database.But i can't able to run this.

The script is as following

#!/bin/bash
echo "Mention the username which you want to convert LDIF format"
read username
if ["$username" -e "/ldiffile/passwd"]; then
echo "Username already exists"
else
cat /etc/passwd | grep -i "$username" >> /ldiffile/passwd
fi
The output which i got :
. ldapadd.sh
Mention the username which you want to convert LDIF format
yal2361
-bash: [yal2361: command not found

please let me know where need to change and what

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Nov 8, 2010

I want to find maximum length file in a given directory. It should search recursivley. I want this to be done using ls and simple looping constructs.

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Jul 9, 2010

Is there any inbuilt functionality in Unix shell script so that i can able to convert lower case string input to an upper case? I dont want to use high level languages like java,python or perl for doing the job.

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