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Thanks for explaining that p5wiz. I decided to do this instead so that i could use some variables inside the quotes: cmd=$(ssh 192.168.0.1 "for i in $d1 $d2 $d3; do find /root/dir\$i -type f \( -name "$pre*" \) -printf %f\\\n | wc -l; done")

same problem.

Thanks p5wiz. Still no luck. There is something wrong with the command as it does not return the correct results. To return 1 value is fine but it seems to lose the others in the for loop.

Thanks PHV but i get the same result. All values are set to the last returned result. 8 8 8 instead of 27 5 8

Hi I am trying to return more than one result from a ssh command. [root@server ~]# cmd=`for i in 1 2 3; do find /root/dir$i -type f | wc -l; done` [root@server ~]# echo $cmd 27 5 8 [root@server ~]# cmd=`ssh 192.168.0.1 "for i in 1 2 3; do find /root/dir$i -type f | wc -l; done"`...

Thanks very much Feherke. I'm half way there. I am now struggling to use the value of my variable in an if statement. I haven't been able to find any info on the internet for what I'm trying to do. My objective is to assign a default value to a set of variables if they have a null value. for...

Hi I am writing a bash script in which i need to set variables in a for loop. This doesn't seem to work and I'm not sure why it is any different to setting them any where else in the script. I have tried: array=(1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9); for i in ${array}; do "V$i"="test"; done but i just get a...

Ofcourse. thanks PHV.

Hi Please could someone explaing the difference between a and b in the script below. Not sure why the "a" test gives a false result. echo 19G 19 | awk '{ alert= 5 a= substr($1,1,length($1)-1) b= $2 if(a <= alert){ print "a: "a" is not less than "alert...

thanks Tony. I suspected as much.

Hi I am inserting windows newline charachers into a field with the intention that when i "select into outfile" the field data will be written on several newlines. It seems problem is that the default behaviour is to escape the backslashes when writing the outfile so i end up with the literal...

thanks feherke! works well.

Hi I am trying to create a random 2 digit number for each input record. The same number must also NOT be generated for at least 10 input records. This is what i have tried. I think I am close but I am not sure how to react to duplicates within the 10 record boundry. Probably also a more clever...

Hi I'm trying to process a file with dates in the format of "week.year". I need to convert this to "first day of week.month.year" example: 01.2006 to 02.01.2006 02.2006 to 09.01.2006 03.2006 to 16.01.2006 I'm not sure if it's possible to pass the date command a string with the week in it. Is...

Thanks PH Works perfectly. That was a stupid mistake with no file for sort.