[ILUG] ksh question...

[Braun Brelin]

Niall,

It's not a choice of mine.  I'm teaching an advanced course in shell
programming using KSH
(customer's request.)  I'm writing the student's assignments in advance just
to make
sure that I know exactly what I'm teaching so that I don't get caught out on
some
bizarre mysterious error(s) while I'm actually running the course.

The assignment is going to be somewhat complex, creating a web CGI ksh
script that also reads and writes into a MYSQL database.

The idea is that this will teach a lot of more advanced concepts in shell
scripting, including HERE documents, select, ksh features like local
variables in functions
associative arrays and other nifty stuff...

Braun


On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 8:44 PM, Niall Sheridan <nsheridan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Out of curiousity, why not do it with perl? You seem to be more
> comfortable with perl and it's more full-featured and probably better
> suited to the task at hand than your average fragile shell script.
>
>  Niall
>
> On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 19:49, Braun Brelin <bbrelin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I'm trying to write a small ksh script that will call mysql (and
> mysqladmin)
> >
> >
> > What I'd like to do is catch the output of mysqladmin and process errors
> > myself
> > rather than have the mysqladmin or mysql command print the errors out on
> > STDERR.
> >
> > I can easily do this in Perl, but I'm wondering if Ksh has the same
> ability.
> >
> > I've looked at the eval and the exec command, but neither seem to do what
> I
> > want.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Braun
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