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Serial standard communication (stty)

Hello friends, I am trying to communicate with a programmer memory from Unix (HP-UX) via serial port. Well, I have some code ready stty parameters to achieve communicating the device with the computer,...

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Getting error at conditional statement.

Hi experts, I am doing an exercise which has the following requirements. Charlie will bite your finger exactly 50% of the time. First, write a function isBitten() that returns TRUE with 50%...

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Changing information supplied when running file

In unix systems I can call `file` to return me the file type. Code: file cel.vik $ cel.vik: ASCII text How can I append additional information when I create a file such that when I call `file` it...

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Script to check process status

Hi Team, I am using redhat 6.4 version server.We have a script which is used to check the process and sends email if the process is not running.If it is running it will continue and do some other...

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UNIX script to display the filename

Hi All How to answer the below interview question.. PHP Code: With a path and filename of  "/mydir1/mydir2/mydir3/myfilenane.dat" write a UNIX script to display the filename 

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Script creating a Volume name with the Format command

Going through creating a bunch of FC Luns and then exporting them to LDOMS. For clarity I would like to script setting a volume name on the LUN. We use a Netapp storage solution that has a command...

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To check Blank Lines, Blank Records and Junk Characters in a File

Hi All Need Help I have a file with the below format (ABC.TXT) : Code: ®¿¿ABCDHEJJSJJ|XCBJSKK01|M|7348974982790 HDFLJDKJSKJ|KJALKSD02|M|7378439274898 KJHSAJKHHJJ|LJDSAJKK03|F|9898982039999 (cont......)...

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UNIX script can accept 1 to n parameters

Just for my leaning purpose, I appreciate if someone answer my question: A UNIX script can accept 1 to n parameters. For each of these parameters, write out the parameter id number and its value.

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Within an awk script

Just for my learning purpose, I appreciate of someone answer my question Within an AWK script, test if Field # 4 is empty. If it is write out "Field 4 is empty", otherwise write the context of field 4.

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UNIX shells script to echo out the date value

I appreciate if someone answer this question for my learning purpose: Given a filename structure of a COUNTRY CODE, file type, date (YYYYMMDD) and two digit attempt number with an extension of ".dat",...

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Appending multiple files

I am trying to append multiple files in a directory Code: cat /a/file1.txt /a/file2.txt /a/file3.txt /a/file4.txt > /a/file.txt Except file2 every other file is appending. I interchanged file names...

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Regarding a query on making changes to a running script

Hello All, Greetings !! I have a query here to all is as follows: Question: Let's say we are running a script in a UNIX box and we have opened an another session and then made changes in script of some...

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Configure network connectivity as guest O.S under vmware

Hi! I am not sure if this is the right place to post this question. What I did was to download vmware onto my laptop, them install a linux distro as a guest O.S., on VM network configuration I have...

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Help on for loop with a parameter

Hi, need help to pass an paremeter to for loop script Code: $cat tp.ksh   for i in `grep $1 | cut -d "/" -f 5 | cut -d" " -f2` do fgrep $i $1 | grep 'with value' | cut -d "|" -f 2 done   $tp.ksh...

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Does Shell Scripting in a Resume carry value?

Hi All, I have learnt a lot by getting help from these forums. By the knowledge acquired, i have done the following automations which have helped prevent financial loss to my client. (i) Detecting when...

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Script to find min for each unique value

I need a script that will search through multiple files and when the first 2 columns match, print out Columns 1 and 2 and the minimum value. File 1 Code: 24.01  -81.01    1.0 24.02  -81.02    1.0 24.03...

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Get line before and after string - awk

so below is the command i'm using to get X number of lines BEFORE and AFTER a specific string is found: Code: gawk '{a[NR]=$0} NR>1157 && NR<=2414 && /CALL.*EDI.*PROD.*SUPPORT/...

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Solaris - BUS error with optimize mode

Hi, I'm facing BUS (invalid address alignment) issue. Application works correctly with binaries compiled without optimization. When "-O3" (or -O2, O1) is in use, application abort with - BUS (invalid...

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Prevent kickstart to install image on external LUN

on the HP box , when we try to kickstart , the Linux gets installed on external LUN (Storage) .. so we end up unmapping the LUN and rekick , is there a way to disable the kickstart to ignore the...

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Make process parallel

Hi, I have a file which has a list of 200 tables e.g: table.txt I need to do a count for each table and store it in a file. So I did something like this: Code: for TABLE in `cat table.txt` do...

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