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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting need some help getting started on this script Post 302249194 by Dave247 on Monday 20th of October 2008 08:07:14 PM
Old 10-20-2008
need some help getting started on this script

Hi. I am just getting into scripting. I came into a situation where I need to go through several hundred files on a Linux system and find a couple specific bits of information from within each file. All the files have pretty much identical content except for a view data values on the same two lines in each file. I want to make a script that can go through them all and get each data value so I can manipulate them.

I know this is kind of a broad question, but I am really just trying to figure out where to get started. I am a bit of a Linux and programming novice, so I think this is going to be something difficult. Now I am reading about bash scripting from several different websites, but it seems like I might have to go through a lot of stuff and study for a few weeks before I can even accomplish something. I need to get this done much sooner than that.

Can anyone refer me to a good script site where I can dissect already made similar scripts or maybe a page that talks about file reading and manipulation scripts?

Any other kind of help is appreciated...

EDIT: I mean, what kind of commands would be wise to put in this script? Find? AWK?

Last edited by Dave247; 10-20-2008 at 09:57 PM..
 

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uudemon(4)						     Kernel Interfaces Manual							uudemon(4)

NAME
uudemon.admin, uudemon.cleanu, uudemon.hour, uudemon.poll - Administrative shell scripts for polling remote systems, cleaning up spool directories, reporting status to the system administrator, and routine invocations of the uuxqt and uusched daemons SYNOPSIS
These shell scripts reside in the following directory: /usr/lib/uucp DESCRIPTION
All the scripts can be run from the command line or can be run automatically by the cron daemon. To automatically run the scripts, remove the comment character (#) from the beginning of the relevant line in the /var/spool/cron/crontabs/uucp file. This script reports status to the system administrator. It issues the uustat command to find out the status of uucp jobs. It mails the results to the uucp login ID. The script may be modified to send mail to any login ID such as the uucp administrative login ID (uucpa) or root. This script cleans up the /var/spool/uucp and /var/spool/uucppublic directories by running the uucleanup command. The uucleanup com- mand is run with the following parameters: -C7, -D7, X2, -o2, -W1. This script runs the uusched and uuxqt daemons in the background. This script polls the systems listed in the /usr/lib/uucp/Poll file. The uudemon.poll script should be scheduled before the uudemon.hour script. This allows uudemon.poll to create any command files before cron runs the uudemon.hour script. FILES
Contains the uudemon.admin, uudemon.cleanu, uudemon.hour and uudemon.poll files. Contains the uucp file. RELATED INFORMATION
Commands: cron(8), uucleanup(8), uusched(8), uuxqt(1) Files: /usr/lib/uucp delim off uudemon(4)
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