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"for" loop is not executing on the remote server using SSH
The below "for" loop works locally on the same server.
But when triggered through "ssh" protocol on remote servers, the output is not received.
Please, can anyone suggest how to ...
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korn shell Store for loop output "values" in array and pass to another loop
Need help with array in korn shell. I need to pass the values from first for loop to 2nd loop.
The first loop returns
/opt/IBM/db2/V11.5
/opt/IBM/db2/V11.5.8
/opt/IBM/db2/V11.5.8
Then I am greap &...
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Switch user using EOF does not work su - ${instance} <<'EOF'
I am running a ksh script from root where I switch (su) to different users and execute the commands. But, some reason EOF does not. Here is part of my code.
This part of the code does not work su - $...
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Display branch name in $PS1 on ksh88
I want to display my current git branch in the prompt in ksh88.
I'm working on a legacy project, when the backend run on IBM's AIX, with a mandatory ksh88 shell. I can switch to say, bash, for some ...
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Club the two commands i.e output of first as input to the second command
I wish to club the below two Steps whereby the output of Step 1 i.e the PORTS should go as input to Step 2.
Step 1:
The below command gets me the port numbers from a file.
genpwdfile dec -in test/test....
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How add new lines between rows and start and end position of the csv file
The below input data contains table attribures with header information.
The expected output is given below as well where the header and newline with intended text. This is expected as and when there ...
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How could I know inside a script if stdout has been redirected for it?
I have a script in ksh; depending whether there is a redirection from the command line, I redirect the output via a exec 1>file. How can I test from inside the script itself if the command calling ...
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Get/Set environment variables in a different tty
I'm using a tool (Autokey) that spawns in a new shell. Cool tool, but I want to pull info from my current shell.
Say I'm on pts/0 and I have a variable set: VAR1=yes. In another shell, I want to be ...
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Concatenate a string with a variable in grep command
I have to search by this pattern:
_20181106
20181106 is yesterdays date, so it has to be be a variable like
TZ=aaa24 date +%Y%m%d
How can I search a file with this pattern?
I'm working with AIX
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Use small script inside another On AIX, or a solution in a single command
I want put on a small script (perl-script.pl) inside another in order to use use it with a find command, like this:
#Saving the previous permission information for a possible recovery.
case "$STAND" ...
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setting a remote stdout into local KORNSHELL variable
I'm writing a script. The idea is to compare MD5 checksums between a local file and a remote one.
The local file checksum is saved into a local variable:
LOCALMD5=!chsum "$(basename "$file")"
I ...
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reestablish root shell
I disabled the shell of user root with the command chuser shell=/bin/false root and now I cannot switch to root with sudo su -. PermitRootLogin is disabled too, so I don’t know how could I reestablish ...
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Echo the list of process not running
I have developed a script, the script refers to a file to start the required processes on that server. The script times out after 180 secs. At the end of the script I would like to display the ...
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I want search for a string and to pull all the lines between two patterns [duplicate]
I want search for a string and to pull all the lines between two patterns(including the pattern).
START#1
Name S
101
Frankfurt_1_1
19
A+
Street
END
START#2
Name B
104
Berlin
20
A+
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How to find the word before a match
I have the following log file. I need to know if there are any fault / suspect condition using a shell script.
I need to find fault and check the previous word, if it is greater than 0 then there is ...
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set -A command not running in Linux
if [ $UNITS = day ]; then
while ((OFFSET > 0)); do
if (( OFFSET >= day )) ;then
month=$((month - 1))
if (( month == 0 )) ;then
year=$((year - 1))
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linux equivalent to AIX proctree command to show all child and parent processes of a given PID
Sometimes I'm looking for an equivalent for the AIX proctree command
which displays all children and all ancestors of a specified PID and can be sometimes quite useful for troubleshooting purposes. As ...
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Shell Script - Redirected output to a file and results are not as expected in first run
I have redirected the output of the command which returns some times 2 rows, 5 rows.. 100 rows etc in the file.. and i will use this file in if condition later to check some other conditions..
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Database: 0403-009 The specified number is not valid for this command [closed]
getting the error as Database: 0403-009 The specified number is not valid for this command.
Code::
#!/usr/bin/ksh
#set -x
WORKFILE="/tmp/oatest.out"
DDLFILE="/tmp/oatest.ddl"
TODOFILE="/tmp/...
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Need to capture part of file name into variable
I have bunch of CSV files named like so in a directory:
s_m_u_supplemental_fields_account_9_4_2015_11_26_Error.csv
s_m_u_supplemental_fields_account_9_4_2015_12_3_Error.csv
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Can a process bring itself back to the foreground on completion? (AIX/ksh)
I have a while loop to count to 5 and echo "Done" when finished. I want to be able to execute the script in the background with "&" and continuing issuing commands while it runs.
But when it's ...
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A question about shell and .profile,.bash_profile,.bashrc
I'm on aix 7.1, my shell is bash
If i did
ssh ibmunix
gqlplus user/pass
All works and gqlplus starts. gqlplus is on /opt/freeware/bin
If i did from another machine
ssh ibmunix "gqlplus user/...
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zwrite handling of "@" symbol
I've been using zwrite to create simple message popups in AIX, and it handles @ symbols weirdly, even when they're strong quoted. I'm running these commands in ksh.
As an example,
echo '1 @ 2 @@ 3 @@...
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What is the meaning of "${name##*/}" in Shell [duplicate]
I have a code as
while read name; do uuencode "$name" "${name##*/}"; done
but I do not understand what is meaning of ##*/ in "${name##*/}"
Google doesn't give good results. Can someone please ...
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Why doesn't alias work in AIX (Korn shell, .profile)?
I have these files in my home directory:
drwxr-xr-x 3 meuser staff 256 Oct 12 13:11 .
drwxr-xr-x 102 bin bin 4096 Sep 30 12:28 ..
-rw------- 1 meuser staff ...
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Installing ksh as the standard shell in Redhat: Foolhardy?
I'm not a system administrator, but my organization is considering replacing /bin/sh in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6+ with a hard link to /bin/ksh. How foolhardy would this be?
The background to this ...
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How to run the most recent command on AIX?
How can I run the most recent command again from history in AIX Server? And how to edit the most recent command and run it again in AIX?
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Skip first 3 bytes of a file
I am using AIX 6.1 ksh shell.
I want to use one liner to do something like this:
cat A_FILE | skip-first-3-bytes-of-the-file
I want to skip the first 3 bytes of the first line; is there a way to do ...
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What is the default shell for .sh in AIX?
I am fairly new to AIX machine. We would like to deploy some program into the AIX machine which is yet to come.
We have a short experience in AIX machine and after login using putty, we felt the ...
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