[ILUG] ksh question...

[Niall Sheridan]

OK. I was just being curious - you were just describing something I'd
tend to skip shell for :)
Good luck :)

 Niall

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 20:50, Braun Brelin <bbrelin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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