Questions tagged [ksh]
ksh, short for Korn Shell, is a Unix shell developed in the early 1980s.
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way to globally add timestamps to terminal output?
I am trying to find a way to have all terminal output from .ksh scripts to have a time stamp pre-pended to the beginning of the line. The challenge is, the scripts I want to add these time stamps to ...
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How to decrease the length of the output of "ps -ef" command? It is showing full output with unlimited length
When running ps -ef command on our new solaris server the command outputs the full arguments of the processes including passwords and usernames. It seems the length of characters it is showing is ...
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Misplaced sub-shell in bash
I'm having trouble with an unfortunate mis-feature in bash, illustrated by this function:
trying ()
{
res=0;
echo $res;
cat some_text_file | while read op rpt rec; do
res=1;
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Invalid function name "," in ksh
This is my system:
# cat /etc/*release*
PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch)"
NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="9"
VERSION="9 (stretch)"
VERSION_CODENAME=...
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Joining directories, logically? [duplicate]
This is quite possibly just a silly question, and I suspect I already know the answer, but I might learn something new, so ...
I recently learned about the CDPATH environment variable, which lists a ...
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how to count the number of occurrences of a word in different files? -BASH
I have files like
raw_data_0, raw_data_1... raw_data_7
every file contains below data
record_count=1
emailCountFailure=0
record_count=1
emailCountFailure=0
record_count=1
emailCountFailure=0
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How do I send my command history to two different history files?
Is there any way to have my commands sent to a secondary history file besides the default history location? I know that setting HISTFILE will send my commands to a custom locations, but I still want ...
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While loop is exiting before the end of the file
I am reading a file and writing and the while is exiting before reaching the end of file. Always it is existing at n-1. Can someone help me?
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While loop stopped working
#!/usr/bin/ksh
# set the Internal Field Separator to a pipe symbol
IFS='|'
# file name
file=/backup/diskonly_backupfiles/EMPTORIS_ACE/LATEST/Batch1/contract.txt
# use while loop to read domain and ...
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What does asterisk (*) meant in Linux for-loop
I have this .ksh script snippet:
for type in *
do
cd ${DATA_HOME}/$type
for mid in *
do
#doing something here
done
done
My question: So what does the asterisk * ...
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Setting up ksh task in Cmder
I'm looking for a way to use a korn shell in Cmder.
I'm trying to add an entry in the Task menu which would let me start a new ksh window. I looked at mksh, to no avail yet. There seems to be some ...
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How to reverse-i-search in ksh through SSH?
I'm currently using PuTTY to connect to some Linux server (ksh on RHEL if that matters).
However using Ctrl+R doesn't work (only ^R appears on the screen).
I'm quite surprised that despite all my ...
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Ksh/Bash script to run commands based on kernel name
I am trying to build a script that will take all hostnames from a file and run various commands depending on the kernel name.
I first want to ssh to the host machine and after issuing an uname -a ...
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ksh - Reading an unset variable into an array using the read command
I have the following ksh script, where $an_unset_var is an unset variable which is being used for the first time:
read -A arr <<< "$an_unset var"
echo ${#an_unset_var}
echo ${#arr[*]}
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unix shell tips to assign boolean value to variable from a test
code to show the request in context (unix ksh currently):
r=$( [ -z "foo" ] && echo true || echo false )
is there a better, simplerway to assign r with true or false something like r=$( [ -...
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