Re: Help with script.

2010-05-19 Thread Afflictedd2
Thanks man, I appreciate your help. Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 10:08:54AM -0700, Afflictedd2 wrote: >> >> I'm tryin to build a script that will extract columns from a comma >> sepparated or x delimited file. > > And do what with them? That matters, a lot. > >> I get th

Re: Help with script.

2010-05-19 Thread Allodoxaphobia
On Tue, 18 May 2010 10:08:54 -0700 (PDT), Afflictedd2 wrote: > > I'm tryin to build a script > > Any help appreciated. comp.unix.shell

Re: Help with script.

2010-05-19 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 10:08:54AM -0700, Afflictedd2 wrote: > > I'm tryin to build a script that will extract columns from a comma > sepparated or x delimited file. And do what with them? That matters, a lot. > I get the following error: > > Naix:Bash Naix$ ./extractCol.sh , cutDemo.input 3 >

Re: Help with script - doesn't work properly from cron

2009-07-20 Thread Erik Olof Wahlstrom
Thanks everyone for your pointers - I ended up with this: #!/bin/bash BACKUP_DIR="/media/disk/AUTOMATED_BACKUPS/DB_DAILY" CURRENT_DIR=$BACKUP_DIR/`date +%d` DATABASES="$(mysql -uroot -pNewSecretPw -Bse 'show databases')" echo 'Backing up databases: '$DATABASES cd / rm -rf "$CURRENT_DIR" mkdir

Re: Help with script - doesn't work properly from cron

2009-07-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Greg Wooledge wrote: > Erik Olof Wahlstrom wrote: > > /usr/bin/mysqldump -uroot -pHardAsMySql321 "$DB" | bzip2 > > > "$DB"_`date +%Y-%m-%d_%k.%M`".sql.bz2" > > # Long line, probably broken by your mailer. For clarity, I'd ># write it on two lines explicitily: > >

Re: Help with script - doesn't work properly from cron

2009-07-20 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 02:53:21PM -0700, Erik Olof Wahlstrom wrote: > #!/bin/bash > BACKUP_DIR="/media/disk/AUTOMATED_BACKUPS/DB_DAILY" > > CURRENT_DIR=$BACKUP_DIR/`date +%d` # See how you call date here without an explicit path? That's good. > DATABASES="$(/usr/bin/mysql -uUsername -pPasswo

Re: Help with script - doesn't work properly from cron

2009-07-18 Thread Bernd Eggink
Erik Olof Wahlstrom schrieb: Hello - I am having a problem with a backup script that I have put together - when I run it as root from the terminal, it works as expected (with one caveat); however, when cron runs it, the daily backup folder is created but no files are deposited into that folder...

Re: Help with script -- FIXED

2007-08-29 Thread t0nedef
Thank you all for your help, i figured out what the problem was and the script works perfectly now. It was the placement of my variables that caused it to mess up, also that syntax on the test fixed that part of the equation as well. Anyway, no more need to try and fix the wpa_helper script -- Vi

Re: Help with script --

2007-08-28 Thread Andreas Schwab
Bernd Eggink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > t0nedef schrieb: > >> echo "Please enter a network name" >> read ESSID >> if [ -n $ESSID ] > > You probably meant: > if [ -z $ESSID ] Really you want this: if [ -z "$ESSID" ] Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Pr

Re: Help with script --

2007-08-28 Thread Bernd Eggink
t0nedef schrieb: echo "Please enter a network name" read ESSID if [ -n $ESSID ] You probably meant: if [ -z $ESSID ] then echo "unable to use a blank network name" exit $E_NOESSID fi Regards, Bernd -- Bernd Eggink [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sudrala.de

Re: Help with script --

2007-08-27 Thread Pierre Gaston
On 8/28/07, t0nedef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > WORK_PATH=/etc/wpa_helper # Storage directory DO NOT MODIFY > WORK_FILE=$WORKPATH/$ESSID.conf # Configuration file DO NOT MODIFY > if [ ! -e $WORKPATH ] > if [ ! -e $WORKFILE ] also you use WORK_PATH WORKPATH WORKFILE WORK_FILE

Re: Help with script --

2007-08-27 Thread Pierre Gaston
On 8/28/07, t0nedef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ok, i wrote this script to help with wpa wireless connections, but for some > reason, it errors out. It says that the ESSID is empty. I've double checked > my syntax, and it looks right to me. *yes, i did double check the syntax for > the read comm