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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Working with multiple home directories. Post 302195770 by trey85stang on Friday 16th of May 2008 12:01:29 AM
Old 05-16-2008
Working with multiple home directories.
I need to rename a directory in every home directory on a given workstation. I am a newb to scripting so maybe thats why I cant exactly figure out how to correctly do this.

The first thing I need to be able to do to write this script is figure out how to list all the directorys (these are not actual home directorys).

Im using solaris so that may complicate things for me.

ls -d only lists "." so that command is worthless.. for this.

find /path/to/users -type d ; somewhat works but it also lists every directory past users. I cant seem to find a way to tell it to only look in the one directory.the output is the following:

/path/to/user1
/path/to/user1/dir1
/path/to/user1/dir2
/path/to/user2/
/path/to/user2/dir1
/path/to/user2/dir2

I need to only see /path/to/user1 and /path/to/user2.

Anyone have any ideas on else I could try? Also, if it matters, Im using solaris to work on/write this script.. but the actual script will be for OSX, a post install script for an application upgrade.
Last edited by trey85stang; 05-16-2008 at 01:14 AM..
 

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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS

quota

quota(1M)						  System Administration Commands						 quota(1M)

NAME

       quota - display a user's ufs file system disk quota and usage

SYNOPSIS

       quota [-v] [username]

DESCRIPTION

       quota  displays	users'	ufs  disk usage and limits. Only the super-user may use the optional username argument to view the limits of other
       users.

       quota without options only display warnings about mounted file systems where usage is over quota. Remotely mounted file	systems  which	do
       not have quotas turned on are ignored.

       username can be the numeric UID of a user.

OPTIONS

       -v	Display user's quota on all mounted file systems where quotas exist.

USAGE

       See largefile(5) for the description of the behavior of quota when encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte ( 2**31 bytes).

FILES

       /etc/mnttab     list of currently mounted filesystems

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWcsu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       edquota(1M), quotaon(1M), quotacheck(1M), repquota(1M), rquotad(1M), attributes(5), largefile(5)

NOTES

       quota will also display quotas for NFS mounted ufs-based file systems if the  rquotad daemon is running.  See  rquotad(1M).

       quota may display entries for the same file system multiple times for multiple mount points. For example,

       quota -v user1
       may  display  identical quota information for user1 at the mount points /home/user1, /home/user2, and /home/user, if all three mount points
       are mounted from the same file system with quotas turned on.

SunOS 5.10							    17 Dec 1998 							 quota(1M)
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