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For this type of operation would write as follows GREPCOUNT=`grep -c "nimrod" mylog.log` if [[ $GREPCOUNT > 0 ]] then print "there's a nimrod in your log!" fi

you have a misspelling; teypset should be typeset you should change your addition line to a "let" statement note the shorthand for initializing vars using typeset list=list.txt numbers=`cat $list` typeset -i increment=0 typeset -i total=0 for increment in $numbers do let...

find ${WORK_DIR} -mtime +1 -exec rm -f {} where ${WORK_DIR} is the directory. You can get filename specific with -name option. Be aware that in HPUX, asterisks if used as wildcards in this command should be escaped. Mtime is used for "modified time" ctime is used for...

from the website ftp://nic.merit.edu/documents/rfc/rfc0959.txt pages 39-42 Note that the error notes are NOT in numerical order, as he grouped them by functionality. The rest of the paper is a deeper background and history of the protocol 4.2.1 Reply Codes by Function Groups 200 Command...

write a script called killme.sh #!/usr/bin/ksh ## kills process launching this script PROCESS_ID=$1 # uses 1st passed parameter # as the value for PROCESS_ID KILL_HOUR=18 # choose your hour KILL_MIN=05 # choose minute of hour END="NO" # set a flag until...

For those into perl, there is a datecalc function that handles date & time math better than any other fuction I have seen

goto's are horrible. Try to work with functions in the script and call the function when you want to goto somewhere.

You can write your own kornshell script to see if various servers are up, with no hangs using the following for REMOTE_HOST is (list your servers here) do ping ${REMOTE_HOST} -n 5 > ${TMP_FILE} ERR=`grep -c " 0% packet loss" $TMP_FILE` if [[ $ERR != 1 ]] ; then...