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| | Hello, I am trying to write a shell script which will have the following: 1. arguments like: -h, -- help, -v, --version, -V, --Verbose, -o filename, --output=filename -s searchphrase, --search=searchphrase, -f format, --format=format 2. a default usage where a user runs a search phrase where the output should go to … |
| | Hi every body, i have this file example : TD1 TD2 TD3 . . .TDn <DIE_1> xxxxxx <\DIE_1> <TD1> information 1 inormation n <\TD1> <TDq> information <\TD_q> . . . <DIE_m> xxxxxx <\DIE_m> <TD3> information 1 inormation n <\TD3> <TDP> information <\TD_p> for example i can find TD3 in DIE_n … |
| | Hey all, I am trying to write a shell script that evaluates the size of each user's home directory and if it is greater than 50 MB I want an email to be sent to their user account telling them that they need to reduce the size of their home …  |
| | Does anyone know of a simple command that could get the date and make a folder (mkdir) as its name? say todays date 20090304 as the folder name. I guess the first thing would be grep the date? Then run a mkdir command? Any help is appreciated! Thanks |
| | Good afternoon all! I am writing an address book for a class that I have, and am stuck on this last part. Any help would be greatly appreciated! When the user selects the "Edit existing record" option, I can't figure out how to make the file overwrite the previous record. … |
| | hi, i am trying to write a script to add 100 users and with certain things created. however, all the book and tutorials online recommend and only show the way to use passwd user after creating a user by useradd username. i know there is a -p option for the … |
| | I plan to start learning shell scripting but I want to start with the one I can use. Is there anyway to find out which type and version of shell program XP uses? Is it DOS, PowerShell? |
| | Hi, I am writing a script to get information on disks for Solaris 10, does anyone know of a way to print out the size of each disk on the system in MB i know how to get it in GB and could do some number manipulation however it would … |
| | Hi, I am beginning to use bashdb to debug my shell script. Here are my questions: 1. With "bash --debugger ./myscript.sh" it will run to finish without stop, while with "bashdb ./myscript.sh" would stop at the beginning. How could I stop in the first usage? 2. I am using Bashdb … |
| | Hi, I am trying to debug my shell script by bashdb. My script take as argument "--gdb", so I wrote [quote]bashdb myscript.sh --gdb[/quote] However, this way it will produce error that bashdb: [quote]unrecognized option '--gdb'[/quote] If I quote --gdb as [quote] bashdb myscript.sh '--gdb'[/quote] then I will end up with … |
| | Hi Guys! I would like to create a shell script that checks how many files there are in a directory. If there are more than 20 then delete the ones that are older than 48 hours old. so I have portions for a script, but I can't seem to make … |
| | hi all, i have a problem with a sqlplus (v8) statement that queries several tables and writes the output into a csv file. that works so far, but one of the tables is a encrypted user password. the problem is that the encrypted characters can also include control characters like … |
| | Hi i'm planning to create a music player for linux. I actually dont knw if shell script allows you to create one. Please let me know what programming languages do i need to know to develop one. |
| | HI guys, I have file with 6 values in: [code] 1060276 2211546 7544.941158316 1060276 2211606 7545.960677177 [/code] I put those numbers into variables: [code] obyte1=`cat $TMP | sed -n 1p` rbyte1=`cat $TMP | sed -n 2p` snapt1=`cat $TMP | sed -n 3p` obyte2=`cat $TMP | sed -n 4p` rbyte2=`cat $TMP … |
| | Hi, I have two shell scripts that do the same thing, but are written differently. The first one works: [code] size=0 pattern=foo for file in * do [ ! -f $file ] && continue if grep $pattern $file > /dev/null then tsize=`cat $file |wc -c` size=`expr $size + $tsize` echo … |
| | hi, basically i need to find out how many lines are in a file. would someone please refer me a quick command? i don't think wc would work since i need the line number. thanks  |
| | i am trying to move to the dest_dir from Current Working Directory using the following script. my intension is instead of using cd dest_dir, i have to use the script to do the job. when ever i tried with the follwing script, iam again in my Current working directoy... #!/usr/bin/bash … |
| | '*'********************************************************************************* ' ' ' Name : SP Management Utlility ' Author : Prem Dhanendran ' '********************************************************************************* [code] 'Create an instance of the File System object dim objfile, navfile set objfile = Createobject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") if isobject(objfile) then set navfile = objfile.opentextfile("L:\OTAI\Package\sp.txt") end if 'Read the Config file sp.txt on L: Drive line … |
| | [code] #!/bin/bash # Days and Procs declaration DAYS="3" PROCS="dyyno" # 3 days Old date AGO=$(date --date="$DAYS days ago" +"%b %d") # Getting pids PIDS=$(ps eaxo bsdstart,cmd,pid | egrep "^$AGO"' | egrep "$PROCS" | awk '{ print $4}') # killing the processes echo "Killing $PROCS process created $AGO days ago" kill … |
| | i have a couple of servers that are changing perms on /dev/null so that "other" can't access it, at random (well, i'm sure SOMETHING'S causing it, but the timing is random), so i wrote a script to go in the inittab so it'll respawn if it dies (bash shell) the … |
| | #5report function report { clear echo "Name, Position, Department, Salary" echo "========================================" awk 'BEGIN{FS=","; RS="\n"} {printf "%s, %s, %s, %s\n", $1, $2, $3, $4}' $dataFile awk '{total += $4}END{print total}' $dataFile } i am trying to print the total sum of the salary or $4 field. However i cant figure …  |
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| | hi, can someone help me? i need a hand to get a script for a smal change. iget this kind of structure... 20080926RIM881T.20081127.104856 20080926RIM881T.20081127.104831.done 20080926RIM881T.20081202.084408.done 20080926RIM881T.20081127.104845 20080926RIM881T.20081127.104834 20080926RIM881T.20081216.084909.done 20080926RIM950T.20080929.101124.done 20080926RIM951T.20080929.101124.done 20080926RIM952T.20080929.101125.done i woud like to have a script to find all files with .done then i shoug change all files …  |
| | I want to retrieve the username and password of the current user from a shell script .... how to do this? |
 | Hey guys, i'm having some trouble using wget. What i'm trying do is log into a site, once its logged is to go to a certain link. And once it is there download all the files on the page, but check back later to see if any new ones are … |
| | Hi, I am now trying to install a C library zlib to be /usr/local/include/zlib, /usr/local/lib/zlib and /usr/local/share/man. Here is the relevent part in the configure file of the library: [QUOTE] prefix=${prefix-/usr/local} exec_prefix=${exec_prefix-'${prefix}'} libdir=${libdir-'${exec_prefix}/lib'} includedir=${includedir-'${prefix}/include'} mandir=${mandir-'${prefix}/share/man'} [/QUOTE] First, what does "-" mean in "prefix=${prefix-/usr/local}"? Second, how can I achieve what I …  |
| | I have a folder on my server named [B]'EVENTS'[/B] and it contains an additional 50 folders [B]'EVENT1', 'EVENT2', 'EVENTS3'[/B] etc, etc. Each of these 50 folders contains within them a varying amount of files and folders also. (So that is the set up). I am wondering if it is within … |
 | Could someone help me to understand what File descriptors are in Linux? |
 | I'm getting into bash shell scripting with Ubuntu 8.10, and the tutorial I'm using is telling me to open the file .bash_profile which is allegedly in the home directory. However, I cannot find this file, except in /usr/share/doc/adduser/examples/adduser.local.config.examples/skel and it's called "dot.bash_profile". Plus, the whole thing is just comments. The …  |
| | Hello, i'm trying to print specific lines from a file using only [U]one command[/U] for example: a file contains 30 lines , i wish to print the content of lines 13, 14, 15, 16?? what command to use for that? |
| | Hey Guys, I am a newb when it comes to bash scripting,but I am loving the learning so far. I am at a wall though. I have scoured for hours tryng to find an answer. Basically here is the pseudo code: 1. ask for users grade 3 times in using … |
| | Hi, I read something like "\mkdir ${RESULT_DIR}". Just curious about why "\" is added before the command? Thanks for help! |
| | ok what i need to do is to make a script function which allows me to change the records in a file. I read some other posts about using sed but i still could not get it to work. The function runs But nothing changes in my file. This is … |
| | I am doing a shell script to be able to read some records from a file, then ask the user to input a name. The script should then be able to search the records and only print out the requested record. I have figured out how to print the records … |
| | Any one please tell me about the algorithm used for updating the Cpnel used in webservers |
| | 1) vi . profile shows alias for commands, you can set the new ones. 2) esc = displays the file and folders in a numbered fashion. 3) esc – or esc k ( esc n does the same thing reversely) shows the previous commands 4) cd esc \ [type something] … |
| | Can someone please help me with the following questions. 1) Create a script that will produce a text file that has a list of the files in the present working directory. Ensure you use the proper syntax to allow auto-execution from the command prompt. Use internal documentation (comments) to place … |
| | Hi All, I am trying to compare two folder using "cmp" command. Folder1=/path/to/folder1 Folder2=/path/to/folder2 Folder1 has file name abc.txt efg.txt hij.txt . . . ..................... xyz.txt Folder2 has file name abc.txt efg.txt . . . ..................... xyz.txt I want to compare this two folder with similar name. Means Folder1/abc.txt should … |
| | I want to replace a text in a file eg (old_text) with another text eg (new_text) . new_text is a variable in my shell script. few methods that i tried .. but this doesnt work cat $line".sh" sed -e 's/abc/ABC/g' $line".sh" sed 's/ordprg/new_string/g' $line".sh" > $line".sh" Could some one can … |
| | Hi, how do you append to a variable? I can only get it to work with a seperate file like this: printf $number1 >> sum.txt I tried this : $number1 >> $sum but it says $sum: ambiguous redirect, any ideas? :) |
| | Can I use my own variables within awk and sed for example: I've written a while loop with a counter $i and I want to use the value of $i within sed and awk to edit certain lines of text within a data file. I want to use : sed … |
 | Hi There, I have a third party EXE file (on which I have no control of any modification) which invokes a new CMD window in order to execute itself. In other words it a windows console application. Now it executes with some switches for runtime options [ICODE]<exe_name> /opt1 "param" /op2[/ICODE] … |
| | hello, i'm new with scripts and linux and need a little help. i made a text file called colors using a vi editor and contains as follows: red green blue gold now i want to delete the 2nd line with the word green using a script file. well i know … |
| | Hi I have a simple question. Is there an easy way read a date of birth from a file and calculate how old that person is based on today's date? And would I need the make sure the birthdates are enterered in a particular format? |
| | hello all, I work at a newspaper, and we use QuarkXPress for Desktop publishing...and we have a pretty unfortunate glitch, when Quark crashes, it seems to untick the backup option in the pref's... so I was thinking this would be a good place for a small recursive script, that would … |
| | hi all, i want to associate some files with some programs like we do in windows platform. for example on the shell prompt if i type a file name(i am in that directory) i want it to be opened by gvim editor. how can i do that? |
| | I'm learning some shell scripting but came across this line: [icode] link=`expr "$ls" : '^.*-> \(.*\)$' 2>/dev/null` [/icode] Where [icode]ls=$0[/icode] Can someone explain it to me pls? |
| | hey all. Im writing a small script that is supposed to check for a file or directory and when its not there create it. After it creates the file or directory I would like the script to loop to the beginning but I cant figure it out. What am I … |
| | [COLOR="red"][COLOR="red"]Hi all[/COLOR][/COLOR] [COLOR="Red"]I write to ask you if you could help me with writting this script>>[/COLOR] Suppose we have 2 files: x and y In x, we have those lines: g0201350 g0233234 football United Arab Emirates University College of Information Technology g0209099 In y, we have those lines: Hello there! … |
| | hi, i am a newbie and have to write a rather complicated script. Assume that i have a variable called x and a C source code file say file1.c (this are the inputs of the script) and i need to find the names of all the functions in the C … |
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