typeset command, what it does ?
PM Wong
typeset -lL3 pusr=$usr
I wonder if it is a standard UNIX text-formatting command. I could not
find it on our UNIX system (AIX) by doing a man
Could someone tell me what the command above actually does, so I
can consider replacing with some similar commands.
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Ami Fischman
: Recently I got a shell script from USENET. It contains a command as:
: typeset -lL3 pusr=$usr
: I wonder if it is a standard UNIX text-formatting command. I could not
: find it on our UNIX system (AIX) by doing a man
: Could someone tell me what the command above actually does, so I
: can consider replacing with some similar commands.
I'm not sure, but I think that's a shell built in command. Check the man
page for your shell, and grep it for typeset.
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Frank J. Edwards
>Recently I got a shell script from USENET. It contains a command as:
> typeset -lL3 pusr=$usr
>
>I wonder if it is a standard UNIX text-formatting command. I could not
>find it on our UNIX system (AIX) by doing a man
>Could someone tell me what the command above actually does, so I
>can consider replacing with some similar commands.
It is a Korn shell built-in command. It creates a variable called
"pusr" as a lowercase, left-justified string limited to 3 characters.
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Mike Kail
|> Recently I got a shell script from USENET. It contains a command as:
|> typeset -lL3 pusr=$usr
|>
|> I wonder if it is a standard UNIX text-formatting command. I could not
|> find it on our UNIX system (AIX) by doing a man
|> Could someone tell me what the command above actually does, so I
|> can consider replacing with some similar commands.
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|>
the -L3 defines variables as "flush-left strings, n chars long", where in this
case n == 3.
|> \\\//
|> (o o)
|> [----------------ooO-(_)-Ooo---------------] PM Wong (Computer Officer)
|> [User User User User User User User User Us] CTSC Hong Kong Baptist College
|> [ser User User User User User User User Use] 224 Waterloo Road, Kln. HONGKONG
|> [er User User User User User User User User] Voice: (852)3397425 Fax: 3397888
|> [------------------------------------------] Email: p...@ctsc.hkbc.hk
|>
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David M Williams
>Recently I got a shell script from USENET. It contains a command as:
> typeset -lL3 pusr=$usr
>I wonder if it is a standard UNIX text-formatting command. I could not
>find it on our UNIX system (AIX) by doing a man
>Could someone tell me what the command above actually does, so I
>can consider replacing with some similar commands.
The command typeset is a command internal to the BASH shell (perhaps some
other shells, also). It is not a text formatting command, but rather sets
environment variables. In this case, the variable 'puser' will be set equal
to the contents of the variable 'usr', with the -lL3 being some sort of
modifier. I am not just how it will modify the variable, perhaps doing a man
on the shell that the program was written for will elaborate.
I hope that this has been of some help,
David Williams
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Leonid Volnitsky
> >Recently I got a shell script from USENET. It contains a command as:
> > typeset -lL3 pusr=$usr
> >Could someone tell me what the command above actually does, so I
> >can consider replacing with some similar commands.
> The command typeset is a command internal to the BASH shell (perhaps some
> other shells, also).
to the POSIX like SH. In this case it is ksh.
-l - all upper case characters converted to lower case
-L3 - left justify and remove leading blacks from value, 3 - field width
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