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Old 01-03-2009
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Originally Posted by arukr View Post
the script on excution should take a directory path from useran a numric input and it should check indicate whether its write or not?

Do you mean "whether you can write to it" or "whether it's right"?
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if the cmmd

What's "cmmd"? If you mean "command", please say so. The posts in this forum should be in plain English.
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sh<script-name>,dir/path.<500>" is greater than 500 in size should be copied to dir ,temp in pwd and display the mesage'files of 2000 bytes hav been copied to dir temp'

That sentence makes no sense. Please rephrase it. Where you have code, please put it in [code] tags.