I’ve been using UltraEdit (actually, UltraEdit Studio but this technique works fine with ‘regular’ UltraEdit too) as a text editor / SSH client / FTP browser for a couple of years now, although I’ve barely scratched the surface of its capabilities. In this series of posts, I’m going to show some simple but helpful features that I use when working with UltraEdit and Essbase. First up will be turning UltraEdit into a bare-bones MaxL environment.
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Use an Essbase Substitution Variable in a Shell Script
A couple of weeks back I was writing some automation scripts on a *nix system (using KornShell, in this case) and needed to do something I haven’t previously tried – grabbing the value of a couple of Essbase substitution variables to use elsewhere in the shell script. I’m sharing a generic version since (as a relatively inexperienced programmer on Unix-like systems) I was pleasantly surprised by how simple the toolset made meeting this requirement, and more generally, the solution I came up with demonstrates several useful techniques from which other *nix neophytes may benefit:
- Command substitution
- Inline redirection
- Filtering multiple lines with grep
- Extracting tokens from a single line with AWK
Constructive criticism and comments are most welcome!
A Short Lesson in Complacency and MaxL Automation
Logging out users prior to performing an administrative task is such a common requirement that I give it barely any thought. This complacency bit me recently, and – since I suspect that I’m not alone – I want to share a simple observation about the MaxL operations involved. Continue reading