Questions tagged [ksh]
Use the [ksh] tag for questions about the KornShell
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How can I determine the prematch and postmatch using egrep or ksh under linux
I am working on a issue at the office running on a linux system.
I would like to be able to either use egrep or ksh pattern matching to determine not only the matched string but I also need to be able ...
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Find files modified between 2 dates from Source directory(Recursively) and copy it into the Target directory with same directory structure
I am trying to copy the files from source to Target folder which has been modified between 2 dates,
#!/usr/bin/ksh
source=/home/Amal/DELTA/SOURCE
target=/home/Amal/DELTA/TARGET
cd $source
find ./ -...
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ksh history problem
I'm on Xubuntu 20.04.02
This is a question about ksh command history. Something had changed recently and I'm looking for a way to restore the old behavior.
For years and up to about a month or so ago,...
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KSH on Ubuntu on WSL
I just installed the Ubuntu app on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). It defaults to a bash shell. I would prefer ksh. I am quite naive when it comes to using package managers to install software. ...
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KSH syntax error: invalid arithmetic operator (error token is ".111111111 -2.55555")
I have the following example, and I cannot see why.
line 48: 15.111111111 -2.55555: syntax error: invalid arithmetic operator (error token is ".111111111 -2.55555")
This is my source in ...
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Change directory problem in ksh
I work with Ubuntu 18.04.3
My current directory is /home/hans/bin, The directory /home/hans/.sshz also exist. My shell is "ksh."
The command cd ../.ssh give the output.
ksh cd: /home/hans/ssh:[No ...
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How to call ksh script within bash script?
I am have written a script which will silently installed Microstrategy on Amazon Linux 2.0
In My main script i am calling Microstrategy installation script which is in /bin/ksh and mine is in /bin/...
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Why is a blank required between "[[" and "-e xxx" in ksh?
For instance, the following command does not work:
if [[-e xyz]]; then echo File exists;fi
ksh gives the following error
[[-e: command not found
Is that because "[[-" is ambiguous?
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how to write into cronjob from a shell script
I would like to automate cronjob (meaning schedule a job to be done from a shell script). So i have script that does this
#!/bin/ksh
timestamp=$(date +%H%M%S)
if [ "$timestamp" -eq 230000 ]; then
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FTPing inside of a ksh script, get part not working
#!/bin/ksh
. $HOME/bin/init.ksh
log_start
exit_if_not_dgftp
EXPIRE_DAYS=30
create_arc_dir
handle_error abort $? "Command create_arc_dir failed" $USER
purge_archive $EXPIRE_DAYS
WORK_FILE=...
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Error in the simple shell script ( i.e.+ : unexpected `end of expression' )?
find_totalusage()
{
local totalusedsize=0
for dirname in $dirnamelist
do
dirsize=$(find_dir_size "$dirname")
totalusedsize=$(( $totalusedsize + $dirsize ))
done
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Why are numeric function names not allowed?
Consider the following:
$ ksh -c '1(){ echo hi;};1'
ksh: 1: invalid function name
$ dash -c '1(){ echo hi;};1'
dash: 1: Syntax error: Bad function name
$ bash -c '1(){ echo hi;};1'
bash: `1': not a ...
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How compatible dash is with ksh?
Can I make /bin/sh symlinked to /bin/ksh instead of /bin/dash without breaking anything in the process ? Since they're both supposed to be POSIX-compliant, can I reasonably expect the replacement to ...
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Where can I find a list of the features from Korn and C shells incorporated by Bash?
I would like to have some documentation about the features from Korn (ksh) and the C (csh) shells incorporated in the Bash command language interpreter. A exhaustive list of commands would be great. ...
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Login Errors with KSH
My cloud team setup a Ubuntu 16.04 AMI for me in AWS. They have done some items to 'Harden' the instance but they normally use amazon linux and not Ubuntu so I think they have broken some things. ...
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What are these auxiliary file descriptors?
While poking around /proc/self folder for my mksh shell, I found a peculiar thing: in /proc/self/fd/* there are all the standard file descriptors (0 for stdin, 1 for stdout, and 2 stderr) some file ...
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Difference between bash-shell and ksh-shell by using while with read - what can I do in bash for the same response as in ksh?
I have two scripts:
in bash
#!/bin/bash
H_VARIABLE=empty
echo "Zeile1
Zeile2" |
while read satz
do
H_VARIABLE="$H_VARIABLE $satz"
done
echo H_VARIABLE=$H_VARIABLE
Result:
H_VARIABLE=...
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Default login shell ksh [closed]
I want to set the default login shell to the Korn shell (ksh) but chsh doesn't recognize /bin/ksh as a shell.
/bin/ksh has been loaded.
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How do I change to ksh?
I need to learn some ksh details, but i don't want to change from bash to ksh permanently.
What should i do?
Is it possible to change shell only for a specific console session?
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