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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting input variable like POST in PHP possibly? Post 302125264 by chadrt on Wednesday 4th of July 2007 11:48:37 PM
Old 07-05-2007
Excellent, thank you very much the second one is what I was looking for! Just out of curiosity is it possible to have the script promt for the days to run like

Would you like to rebuild from last weeks major update? [yes/no]:

Would you like to add monday's update to the database? [yes/no]:

and it would carry out that set of instructions if you choose yes and if you choose no it would end the script.

That may be a little beyond the scope of a shell script but I am new at all this so the fact that I have written a script to do anything is amazing in itself. These scripts are my first attempts at any shell scripting. Thank again for the help...
 

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OVERCHAN(8)						      System Manager's Manual						       OVERCHAN(8)

NAME
overchan - update the news overview database SYNOPSIS
overchan [ -D dir ] [ -c ] [ file... ] DESCRIPTION
Overchan reads article data from files or standard input if none are specified. (A single dash in the file list means to read standard input.) It uses this information to update the news overview database. Overchan is designed to be used by InterNetNews or the C News ``mkov'' packages to update the database as the articles come in. The database for each newsgroup is stored in a file named .overview in a newsgroup directory within the overview database tree. Overchan locks the database file (by locking an auxiliary file) before appending the new data. To purge data after articles have been expired, see expireover(8). By default, overchan processes its input as an INN overview stream written as a ``WO'' entry in the newsfeeds(5) file, for example: overview:*:Tc,WO:/usr/lib/news/bin/overchan This data consists of a line of text, separated into two parts by a tab. The first part is a list of all relative pathnames where the article has been written, with a single space between entries. The second part is the data to be written into the overview file, except that the initial article number is omitted. The data in the overview files should be expired by running expireover(8). This is normally done by adding the ``expireover'' flag to the news.daily(8) invocation. OPTIONS
-c To process the output of the mkov(8) program, use the ``-c'' flag. This format is described in the ``nov'' distribution. -D The ``-D'' flag can be used to specify where the databases are stored. The default directory is /var/spool/news/over.view. HISTORY
Written by Rob Robertson <rob@violet.berkeley.edu> and Rich $alz <rsalz@uunet.uu.net> for InterNetNews. This is revision 1.9, dated 1996/10/29. SEE ALSO
expireover(8), news.daily(8), newsfeeds(5), newsoverview(5), newsoverview(8). OVERCHAN(8)
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