im making a program to update a file on a usb device. but the mount point is different from computer to computer depending on drives, now im updating the changes.lzm on a usb system based on slax. called backtrack, so thers a folder on the root of the memory stick called BT3. and i know if i use find
i get
so is there some way i can read the output and assign it to a variable in bourne shell? or find the mount point of the usb device? any help would be awsome
Hello all,
I need to run snoop command for a period of time (a day) and extract remote host column from it to find out who is accessing my server. When I run the following on the command line it works
snoop -port 22 | awk '{print $3}'
but when I do
snoop -port 22 | awk '{print $3}' | while... (2 Replies)
Hi. Im using cat to output the contents of a file, then piping it to my while read loop.In this loop variables get assigned values. However when i try to use the variables outside the loop their values has been reset.I understand about subshells etc. but I have no idea how to "preserve" the... (3 Replies)
hi,
I have a baby.txt file with two type of message:
xxxxxxxx is missing
xxxxxxxxxxx is not missing
xxxx is missing
xxxxxxxx is not missing
xxxxxxxx is not missing
For the above, I need to read file and get all "xxxx is missing" and write into baby_missing.txt. If no message "xxxxx is... (12 Replies)
I am trying to create a small install script for gentoo. I am trying to research how to pass on information from a command i.e. mii-tool to autodiscover my network settings.
for instance
~ # mii-tool
eth0: no autonegotiation, 100baseTx-HD, link ok
eth1: 10 Mbit, half duplex, no link
... (1 Reply)
Sorry about the title, but this should be fairly self-explanatory.
My script seems to work, except that in the output, below, the first three lines are correct, but why does it print the additional lines 4, 5, & 6?
Script:
#!/bin/bash
while read;
do
client="$(grep -m 1 Client | awk... (3 Replies)
<key>ExcludeSimpleHostnames</key>
<integer>0</integer>
<key>FTPPassive</key>
Need simple command that will change the 0 to a 1 in this file when I grep it, but only for this integer key directly after the ExcludeSimpleHostnames key.
I got this output code... (8 Replies)
Hi -
I have a file containing data like :-
cn=tommy,cn=users,c=uk
passwordexpirydate=20100530130623z
cn=jane,cn=users,c=uk
passwordexpirydate=20100423140734z
cn=michael,cn=users,c=uk
passwordexpirydate=20100331020044z
I want to end up with a file that looks like:-... (6 Replies)
I'm working on a short BASH script on my Ubuntu box that will run powerpoint scripts with MS Powerpoint Viewer 2007 via WINE.
I can run the presentation when I run it manually but what i'd like to do is have the script look for the newest file then run it.
#! /bin/sh
# Start the newest... (2 Replies)
Hi all, how read varaible and ouput in colum,
e.g.
$ echo $VAR1
opc op odi games gopher vcsa abrt
I like
$ echo $VAR1
opc
op
odi
games
gopher
vcsa
abrt (3 Replies)
need help to print the below ..
Content of file looks like below ..
SCHEMA1. TABLE1
SCHEMA2. TABLE2
SCHEMA3. TABLE3
read lines from above file and print o/p as below
print output like read 1st line and print
SELECT SCHEMA1.TABLE1
print output like read 2st line and print ... (4 Replies)