RE: [U2] Running a command from / via PCPERFORM
PCPERFORM can do multiple commands. Separate them with a linefeed (char(10)). You can actually pass in a text stream that is a script for the shell if you like, with if's and else's and other stuff, with a linefeed between lines. We use this run commands in other accounts without leaving the current udt. It will cd to another account, verify that the cd was successful, and run udt in that directory. This is on HP-UX with the Bourne shell. I don't know about other shells, other unix, or Windows. Dean Armbruster Ferguson Enterprises, Inc. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin King Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 3:40 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: [U2] Running a command from / via PCPERFORM I am trying to PCPERFORM an OS-level command that has to be run from the root directory. Other than creating a shell script and executing that script, is there a way to structure the commands following PCPERFORM to allow a cd to the root directory and then run the command? More importantly, is there a platform independent way of doing it so that I don't have to have customizations for Windows vs. *nix? Believe me, if there was a way to do this without having to be at the root, that would be preferable, but this program just happens to require the current working directory to be the root before the command is executed. -Kevin [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.PrecisOnline.com --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
RE: [U2] Running a command from / via PCPERFORM
Dean Armbruster wrote on 03/13/2006 04:33:27 PM: PCPERFORM can do multiple commands. Separate them with a linefeed (char(10)). snip This is on HP-UX with the Bourne shell. I don't know about other shells, other unix, or Windows. Unfortunately, this won't work on Windows. Neither will the semicolon as proposed in a previous posting. On Windows you can use an ampersand as a line separator. Of course, if you use that same construct in UNIX you'll get totally different results (possibly amusing, possibly frightening, definitely incorrect), since anything preceding the ampersand will be launched as a background process with the rest being tossed. If you have software that needs to work on both NIX and Doze, you'll probably have to check SYSTEM(33) to see which you're running, and assign your continuation character accordingly. Hey, you'll probably be doing that anyway, to deal with forward slashes versus backslashes and some other things. Tim Snyder Consulting I/T Specialist , U2 Professional Services North American Lab Services DB2 Information Management, IBM Software Group 717-545-6403 [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
RE: [U2] Running a command from / via PCPERFORM
On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 17:08 -0500, Timothy Snyder wrote: Dean Armbruster wrote on 03/13/2006 04:33:27 PM: PCPERFORM can do multiple commands. Separate them with a linefeed (char(10)). snip This is on HP-UX with the Bourne shell. I don't know about other shells, other unix, or Windows. Unfortunately, this won't work on Windows. Neither will the semicolon as proposed in a previous posting. On Windows you can use an ampersand as a line separator. Of course, if you use that same construct in UNIX you'll get totally different results (possibly amusing, possibly frightening, definitely incorrect), since anything preceding the ampersand will be launched as a background process with the rest being tossed. But what if we use TWO ampersands?! It's so crazy, it just might work: cd something runcommand In both DOS and Bourne this command will change directory to something and, if that succeeded, execute runcommand. How you get 'something' to be '\' in DOS and '/' in UNIX is up to you. Which is to say, I don't think it's possible. Thanks, Michael Doyle Linux Administrator / Developer AMO Recoveries --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
