Script to wait until execution of a background process has ended.

Hi all

Today a simple script. 

If you need execute a process (for example script1.sh) and wait his termination to start execution another process (for example script2.sh) here a simple solution :

#!/bin/ksh

echo ' Start script1.sh '

./script1.sh > /dev/null &

VAR=$!

echo 'PID ' $VAR

wait $VAR

echo 'Finish script1.sh' 

echo ' Start script2.sh '

./script2.sh > /dev/null &

VAR=$!

echo 'PID ' $VAR

wait $VAR

echo 'Finish script2.sh' 

An important command for this application is wait which pauses until execution of a background process has ended.

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Sorting a file with pipe-delimited fields using unix sort

Hi All

Today a simple command to sort a file with pipe-delimited fields.

My file is :

EG|TW|SA|04/05/2009||
EG|NA|EN|02/05/2003||
SS|TW|SA|04/05/2009||
CD|DC|TI|30/12/2004||
ET|EG|TI|02/05/2003||
NI|SS|EN|18/02/2005||
EG|ET|TI|02/05/2003||
IN|ET|TI|21/09/2000||
SS|SS|SA|28/02/2005||
IN|PR|EN|01/11/2003||
PR|TW|SA|04/05/2009||
SS|EN|TN|18/02/2005||
EG|DC|TI|17/09/2010||
EG|EI|SA|04/08/2005||
NA|IN|SA|21/09/2000||

To sort all records by third field.

I can use these simple command :

sort -t"|" -k 3 [file_name]

Where -t is an option where u can explain field separator and with -k you can explain third field.

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How check if a unix script was killed

Hi all

Today a simple mode to check if a process was killed.

It is adding at the end of your script these two rows :

...
...
...
exitvalue=$?
echo  "exit code of my program is " $exitvalue

When script ends it'll show his exit code.
For example if it was killed (kill -9) appears this message :

exit code of my program is  137

The exit code 137  is 128 + 9 so process ended for a "kill -9" command.

This is a table of HPUX Signal :


       Signal  Value    Action   Comment
       -------------------------------------------------------------------------
       SIGHUP     1             Term    Hangup detected on controlling terminal
             or death of controlling process
       SIGINT     2              Term    Interrupt from keyboard
       SIGQUIT     3              Core    Quit from keyboard
       SIGILL     4              Core    Illegal Instruction
       SIGABRT     6              Core    Abort signal from abort(3)
       SIGFPE     8              Core    Floating point exception
       SIGKILL     9              Term    Kill signal
       SIGSEGV    11     Core    Invalid memory reference
       SIGPIPE    13     Term    Broken pipe: write to pipe with no readers
       SIGALRM    14     Term    Timer signal from alarm(2)
       SIGTERM    15     Term    Termination signal



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Ksh script to remove shared memory

Today a simple script to remove shared memory in ksh :


#!/bin/ksh


#
# Shell Script to remove shared memory MVNO Instance
#


PID=$(ipcs -m | grep 0x000000a[0-9a-b] | awk '{print $2}'|xargs)
for one_pid in ${PID}; do
    ipcrm -m ${one_pid}
    echo 'Removed shm : ' ${one_pid}
done

This script remove all shared memory from address 0x000000a0 to 0x000000ab. You must modify this expression to remove another shared memory.

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Arithmetic calculation on real numbers in Ksh Script

Today a simple program to execute arithmetic calculation with ksh script :

#!/bin/ksh

echo "Enter the Price of the item \$ \c"

read price

echo "What Percentage of discount is available \c"

read per

echo "Your Total Savings are \c"

sav=`echo "scale=3\n(($price * $per) / 100)" | bc -l`

echo $sav

Is important see this command :

sav=`echo "scale=3\n(($price * $per) / 100)" | bc -l`

With "scale=3" we are fixing number of decimals to print.
With "bc -l" we are calculating with unix command bc the discout applied, with ($price * $per) / 100.

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Dice simulator

Today a simple shell script to simulate rolls of two dices :

#!/bin/ksh

fc=1

while [ fc -eq 1 ]; do

clear

echo ' How many rolls : \c'

read times

ind=1

while [ $ind -le $times ]; do

echo 'Roll Dice ' $ind

dice1=$RANDOM

dice2=$RANDOM

echo 'dice1 :' $(( dice1%6+1 ))

echo 'dice2 :' $(( dice2%6+1 ))

ind=$(( $ind + 1 ))

done

echo ' Continue(y/n) : \c'

read ans

if [ $ans = 'N' ] || [ $ans = 'n' ]; then

fc=0

fi

done

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