Re: scripting help with ftp

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 C-Kermit (for Linux) and Kermit-95 (for your Windows box) have tremendous scripting capabilities. There is a modest cost for the Kermit-95 distribution, but I have found it to be well worth it. Check it out at . Ron.

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On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 00:13, Peram's List wrote: > Hi Gurus, > I need help with a script to transfer files from a linux box running RH > 8.0 from a windows 2000 box.The sequence is as follows: > 1. Ftp into the windows server, check for the existance of map* files in > ftp dir, if yes move the fil

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On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Peram's List wrote: > Hi Gurus, > I need help with a script to transfer files from a linux box running RH > 8.0 from a windows 2000 box.The sequence is as follows: > 1. Ftp into the windows server, check for the existance of map* files in > ftp dir, if yes move the files to t

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I wrote: | > start=`perl -e 'print time'` | > body of script here ... | > end=`perl -e 'print time'` | > echo "took `expr $end - $start` seconds" Whoops - left off the quote around "print time" in the second perl. On 18:18 21 Aug 2003, Bret Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |

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On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 20:24, Cowles, Steve wrote: > Jason Dixon wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 17:38, Peram's List wrote: > >> I appreciate your quick response. > >> Is there any way I get the time taken for the execution of a script > >> from the script itself instead of typing it at the command

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Jason Dixon wrote: > On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 17:38, Peram's List wrote: >> I appreciate your quick response. >> Is there any way I get the time taken for the execution of a script >> from the script itself instead of typing it at the command line. > > To be honest, I can't get GNU time to even honor

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On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 17:38, Peram's List wrote: > I appreciate your quick response. > Is there any way I get the time taken for the execution of a script from > the script itself instead of typing it at the command line. To be honest, I can't get GNU time to even honor its own flags. It's also n

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On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 17:46, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 16:38 21 Aug 2003, Peram's List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | I appreciate your quick response. > | Is there any way I get the time taken for the execution of a script from > | the script itself instead of typing it at the command line. > >

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On 16:38 21 Aug 2003, Peram's List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I appreciate your quick response. | Is there any way I get the time taken for the execution of a script from | the script itself instead of typing it at the command line. Well, if you're still inside the script then the won't be "the

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IL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 3:41 PM Subject: Re: Scripting help > On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 16:40, Peram's List wrote: > > Hi, > > I know this is a basic question but I tried on the web and could not > > find an answer. > > I'd appreciate if

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On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 16:40, Peram's List wrote: > Hi, > I know this is a basic question but I tried on the web and could not > find an answer. > I'd appreciate if you can guide me on how I can find the time taken for > a script to complete on Redhat 8.0. time Example: $ time sleep 3 real0

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> The Linux Documentation Project has pretty good stuff: > > Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide > http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/ > > Tony Thanks Tony. Regards, --- Edward Dekkers (Director) Triple D Computer Services P/L -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ht

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> And there are loads of online tutorials on shell scripting. Google turned up > one such > tutorial for me: > > http://www.freeos.com/guides/lsst/ > > There must be others too. > > -- > Anand Thanks Anand - the stuff you just told me should in fact get me by. When I get more time on my hands (th

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On 29-Mar-2003/18:14 +0800, Edward Dekkers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The commands, I have no problem with at all, but I'd like to build some >'smarts' into the sequence. > [snip] > >Anyone know of a good tutorial on the web to help me learn these few >things? The Linux Documentation Project has

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[cut] > But things like checking for zip return error codes, mounting the share > error codes etc. is new to me. Obviously if the share is unable to be > mounted, I'd like to skip the rest of the steps and echo "Backup PC could > not be mounted - error code >> backuplog.txt". And then drop > out.

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And the one I like and use is; http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0130147117/qid=1045182968/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/103-8867147-8196623 It's a winner Darryl At 04:17 PM 13/02/2003 -0800, you wrote: hi arden, gordon, et al, i tried out several shell books (including o'reilly), but the one i

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hi arden, gordon, et al, i tried out several shell books (including o'reilly), but the one i kept and keep using is below. chock full of examples (for bash) and task-oriented -- i.e., "how to do x" (and an example).. "how to do y" (and another example) etc etc. in fact, i have to keep stealing

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You can sign up for O'reilly's safari for free for 15 days, they have the bash book on there, I've been using it and it's a great guide. On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 17:09, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Arden Norder wrote: > > > Can anyone help me with a book title for Unix/Linux Scriptin

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Jon Haugsand wrote: You can, in our situation do something like: while read a b c d; do case "$a" in root) export R="ok" ;; daemon) export D="ok" ;; esac done < /etc/passwd And your "side effects" remain. (But I buy the point of portable scripting anyway.) Ah, y

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* [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > NAME=`IFS=':' > > cat /etc/passwd | while read a b c d; do > > if [[ "$a" == "root" ]]; then > > echo $c > > fi > > done` > > > That's a good tip - thank you! However, that only works if we're > talking about 1 env variable. In my work it was actually a number

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Jon Haugsand wrote: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] IFS=':' cat /etc/passwd | while read a b c d do if [[ "$a" == "root" ]] then export NAME="$c" fi done - in ksh this will export NAME into your current env, but not in bash. The explanation, I understand, is that when you start a pipeline in

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* [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > IFS=':' > cat /etc/passwd | while read a b c d > do > if [[ "$a" == "root" ]] > then >export NAME="$c" > fi > done > > - in ksh this will export NAME into your current env, but not in > bash. The explanation, I understand, is that when you start a pipel

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James Francis wrote: Arden Norder wrote: Hey folks!! Can anyone help me with a book title for Unix/Linux Scripting?? I used to (back in the DOS days) do alot of batch scripting using variables etc, etc, etc. I would like to try to automate some processes on my RH7.2 Server via unix batch scrip

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On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Arden Norder wrote: > Hey folks!! > Can anyone help me with a book title for Unix/Linux Scripting?? > > I used to (back in the DOS days) do alot of batch scripting using variables etc, >etc, etc. > > I would like to try to automate some processes on my RH7.2 Server via unix

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With a little web-searching, you should be able to find a ton of tutorials on shell scripting. If you liked DOS scripting, you'll be amazed at what you can do with one of the *nix shells. At 01:56 PM 2/12/2003 -0800, you wrote: O'Reilly makes a good book about Bash, see their site. /B - Or

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Arden Norder wrote: Can anyone help me with a book title for Unix/Linux Scripting?? I used to (back in the DOS days) do alot of batch scripting using variables etc, etc, etc. I would like to try to automate some processes on my RH7.2 Server via unix batch scripting. Also see the Advanced Bash

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On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Arden Norder wrote: > Can anyone help me with a book title for Unix/Linux Scripting?? The O'Reilly bash book is probably the best book for learning Linux shell scripting. While you can certainly use other shells or scripting languages, bash is the default shell on nearly all

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O'Reilly makes a good book about Bash, see their site. /B - Original Message - From: "Arden Norder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 13:51 Subject: Scripting help > Hey folks!! > Can anyone help me with a book title for Unix/Linux Scripting??

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Arden Norder wrote: > Hey folks!! > Can anyone help me with a book title for Unix/Linux Scripting?? > > I used to (back in the DOS days) do alot of batch scripting > using variables etc, etc, etc. > > I would like to try to automate some processes on my RH7.2 > Server via unix batch scripting. >

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On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 10:51:03PM +0100, Arden Norder wrote: > Hey folks!! > Can anyone help me with a book title for Unix/Linux Scripting?? > > I used to (back in the DOS days) do alot of batch scripting using variables etc, >etc, etc. > > I would like to try to automate some processes on my

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I wrote: | Note that a stay packet can bring up the link, [...] s/stay/stray/ Doh! -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ "Yeh, Buddy.. I've got your COMPUTER! Right HERE!!" (computer THIS!) - Larry Cunningham, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

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| > Also worth remembering is that ppp has an "on demand" mode. You have | > ppp in this mode at boot and it doesn't start the modem, just sets | > routes. When you try to send data over the link it starts the modem. | > Which means you can pretend it's up and let ppp do the dial-out bit | > itsel

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* Cameron Simpson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010127 19:08]: > Also worth remembering is that ppp has an "on demand" mode. You have > ppp in this mode at boot and it doesn't start the modem, just sets > routes. When you try to send data over the link it starts the modem. > Which means you can pretend it

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another trick is the files in /var/ru. On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Thierry ITTY wrote: > ifconfig tells you whether your ppp connection is active or not. then it's > up to you to connect conditionnally > > # my app > ifconfig | grep "ppp0" || start_ppp_script > start app X > > > or something like t

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ifconfig tells you whether your ppp connection is active or not. then it's up to you to connect conditionnally # my app ifconfig | grep "ppp0" || start_ppp_script start app X or something like that A 14:11 27/01/2001 -0500, vous avez écrit : >Howdy folks, > >Can someone help to pull the wool

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> I cna get the 'not active' part to work, but just can't figure out how > to detect if ppp0 is up and running. > > Any hints/pointers will be most appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Merell Hi Merrell, I see you have allready some answers but I use this: pppisup(){ [ "`/sbin/route -n|/bin/grep -E

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On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 02:44:44PM -0500, rpjday <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Merell L. Matlock, Jr. wrote: | > X needs to run if my dial-up connection is active, but if the dial-up | > is *not* active, it needs to dialup, run then disconnect. | > I cna get the 'not active' pa

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On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 01:27:36PM -0800, Brad Doster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Is there a known host address that you can only ping thru the ppp interface? | If so, you might script a ping test, then let X act based on the result | code. Something like this might work: | | #Wait for 4

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Is there a known host address that you can only ping thru the ppp interface? If so, you might script a ping test, then let X act based on the result code. Something like this might work: #Wait for 4 'echo reply's or 10 seconds, whichever is greater #NOTE: -w does not work under k

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On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Merell L. Matlock, Jr. wrote: > Howdy folks, > > Can someone help to pull the wool out of my eyes? > > I need to do a job called 'X'. > > X needs to run if my dial-up connection is active, but if the dial-up > is *not* active, it needs to dialup, run then disconnect. > > I cn

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arco Shaw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 12:32 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: scripting help / question > > You might have to be more specific on your goal. find with -exec will be > able to do certain things on files, and a for loop will

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ls -la s* | awk '{print $9}' | sed "s/^./grep -i \'&/g" | sed "s/$/\' file/g" > srcipt.sh is really evil looking steve -Original Message- From: Marco Shaw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 12:32 AM To: [EMAIL PR

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At 08:31 PM 11/13/2000 -0400, you wrote: >You might have to be more specific on your goal. find with -exec will be >able to do certain things on files, and a for loop will also be able do >things to a list. > >Marco k, here goes: - first program creates a bunch of output like this ##

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On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 04:32:53PM -0800, Ed Lazor wrote: | How can I take output from an awk command and run a command on each line? | | For example: | | ls -la s* | awk '{print $9}' | | would create several lines of output and I'd like to do something like grep | the lines from a file. The

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You might have to be more specific on your goal. find with -exec will be able to do certain things on files, and a for loop will also be able do things to a list. Marco - Original Message - From: "Ed Lazor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 8:32