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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Shellscript to Sudo other account Post 302147752 by sachin.tendulka on Wednesday 28th of November 2007 09:09:38 AM

11-28-2007

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Madhan, Once again thanks i have written a shellscript
which gets the data from various files for a respective
name and append those data's in a sample.txt file. Here it is:-

parseData(){
param="$@"
sudo -u $param ksh -c sed -n 's/data-1/&/p' /home/$param/example.dat >> sample.txt
sudo -u $param ksh -c sed -n 's/data-2/&/p' /home/$param/example1.dat >> sample.txt

}

FILE="names.txt"
if [ ! -f $FILE ]; then
echo "$FILE : does not exists" exit 1
elif [ ! -r $FILE ]; then
echo "$FILE: can not read"
exit 2
fi
exec 3<&0
exec 0< $FILE
while read line
do
parseData $param
done
exec 0<&3

exit 0

I will be passing names.txt as a command line arg.which contains 10 names . Where each of those names have different HOMEDIR from where we can search the file and get the data. My problem is that i know the HOMEDIR of my name jason( /home/jason/). But i dont know the HOMEDIR for other names. So how i can find the HOMEDIR for other names and for there how can search the example.dat and example1.dat(which is common for all names) and get the respective data?
I have used "~" like "~ /example.dat" but it is getting me the HOMEDIR of the current working directory.
How to solve this problem. One more problem is that when this script is invoked twice, the data's for the same name is appended twice because of ">>". I dont need that where i need to delete the file sample.txt (if it exists), each time when the script is invoked so that i will get only the data for partcular name once. Please do provide a solution for this..

Thanks

sachin.tendulka

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