1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

What I am supposed to do is creat a menu with the following Find a song Find a album Sort by artist Delete a song Add a new song Quit Now the file with the song information is database Here is what I have so far #!/bin/bash #================================================= #Script Name:... (1 Reply)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

All, I have a list of over 400 users that need certain directories created. These will be created in /users/$username on a system and I need a directory called chess under these directories that I create. Instead of me manually adding each one (mkdir /users/user1, mkdir /users/user1/chess)... (1 Reply)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi everybody :( :confused: :D, I need someone to help me! I have a file with 4 colunms and I would like to transform only the 4th colunm by multiplying this by a constant value (i.e 0.3047). I'm a new one using/creating basic scripts and I'm using linux redhat. The file has the following... (1 Reply)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi everybody :( :confused: :D, I need someone to help me! I have a file with 4 colunms and I would like to transform only the 4th colunm by multiplying this by a constant value (i.e 0.3047). I'm a new one using/creating basic scripts and I'm using linux redhat. The file has the following... (1 Reply)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

I'm trying to approach a problem but all I'm coming up with are complex ways to manipulate the data. But still not getting the desired outcome. directory of files.... file-100-foo file-100-man file-100-chu Need to copy the files and increment the number in the file name ... (4 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Im trying to make a script that simply adds a word to the last available line in a txt file without overwriting any previous lines. Ive googled this and there are great examples but no one explain what each function does, and i dont entirely understand how it works. Basically Im looking for... (7 Replies)

7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Here is the script I wrote... Pls. help. #!/bin/ksh for SERVER in NEWSNYD403P NEWSNYD404P SNEWSNYD601P SNEWSNYD602P SNEWSDNY603P SNEWSNYD604P do /usr/bin/scp "/home/sam/bash.tar root@$SERVER":/tmp done Error msg I get: ./scp_script.sh: syntax error at line 3:... (2 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hey everyone, just now joined because I didn't want to go onto Ubuntu forums and start asking about how to write shell scripts. Seems like this is a pretty active forum for exactly what I need. I'm trying to modify a shell script I found online, the end goal is to have it find all files in the... (9 Replies)