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new "for" loop syntax in Korn shell
Has anybody seen this Korn shell syntax for a for loop for (( i=0; i<10; i++ )) do print $i done An employee of the company I'm working for at the moment just asked me why he got a "syntax error: `((' unexpected" message. I showed him how to do it as a while loop but I am intrigued as to...- risby
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- Forum: UNIX Scripting
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defaulting ifstream variable to standard input
Hi peeps About a decade ago I wrote ifstream fin; if (NULL == inputStream) { fin.attach(0); inputStream = "stdin"; } else { fin.open(inputStream, ios::in); } inputStream was NULL unless a filename had been specified on the command line. The... -
remsh not finishing
Peeps I have a Korn shell script that runs on an HP-UX machine. It loops over a set of machines using remsh to log on to each machine, as a specified user, and then runs a sequence of commands/scripts. Unfortunately it only executes the first sequence (it only visits the first machine): I can...- risby
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- Forum: UNIX Scripting
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Ensure initial letter uppercase
I have some email addresses and I want to strip out the name. They are all similar format: forename dot surname at domain, and they are usually all lower case. I know it's very old fogeyish of me but I thought it would be better to have the first letter of the extracted names in uppercase. Below... -
DOS/Windows hidden files
Does anybody know if there is a perl function for returning DOS/Windows file attributes (in particular, hidden)? PS: I've done a few googles and searched the perl docs and this site and not found anything but please excuse my ignorance if this is a standard function that any fewl shud kno...
