Well, I don't really understand where you're going with your scripts and I'm not really a csh guy. But if I understand your final question, this may help:
Can anyone direct me to a resource that explains scripting in simple terms?
I have visited many sites and browsed this forum and have yet to find simple explanations. (8 Replies)
Hi,
So, I created a file named TEST.BAT in my home directory.
In it, I wrote:
#! /bin/bash
echo Hello
and then, saved the file.
Then, at the command-line interface, I typed TEST.BAT, but the command-line never executes the file and thus, never returns "Hello". It says "command... (2 Replies)
Hello to all!
I am new with unix and i need your help to make something..
First of all i want to inform you that i am working under the Minix 3 OS.
What i want to make is, a new system call in terms of the process manager.
This system call should take an integer as a parameter (input) and... (1 Reply)
Hi
I want to write a small script that will create folders named from `AAAA' all the way to `ZZZZ'.
That is:
`AAAA'
`AAAB'
`AAAC'
...
`AABA'
`AABB'
`AABC'
...
`ABAA'
`ABAB'
`ABAC'
...
`ABBA'
...
`ZZZZ' (4 Replies)
I have a local account for a unix server. The idle timeout for the account is around 10 mins. I have to login to the server multiple times during the day. Is there a way to increase the idle timeout or may be a script that I can run on background so it is not idle. Something like echo date every 9... (3 Replies)
Hello - I am in process of deleting many files which are older than 4 weeks.
For example I am inside:
/subsystem/prod/
Files are with various extentions, but anything older than 4 weeks should be deleted.
What would be the most simplest script to acheive this? (4 Replies)
Guys I want to do this:
copy:
/var/router/system1/config/backup/install.put
/var/router/system2/config/backup/install.put
/var/router/system3/config/backup/install.put
/var/router/system4/config/backup/install.put
into:
/var/router/system1/config/install.dat... (22 Replies)
Dear all,
I have a directory named A and some subdirectories named B, C, D with .xml files. I want to use the following command to strip the file.
sed -re ':start s/<*>//g; /</ {N; b start}' file.xml > file.xml
At the same time, I want to remove the blank lines using
sed '/^$/d'
How can... (6 Replies)
Hello all!
This is my first post and I'm very new to programming. I would like help creating a simple perl or bash script that I will be using in my work as a junior bioinformatician.
Essentially, I would like to take a tab-delimted or .csv text with 3 columns and write them to a "3D" matrix:
... (16 Replies)
This is the problem: Write a script that will make a backup of a file giving it a ‘.bak’ extension & verify that it works. I have tried a number of different scripts that haven't worked and I haven't seen anything really concise and to the point via google. For brevity's sake this is one of the... (4 Replies)