"cd ../$USER" will not place you in your home directory unless you are in a directory on the same level as your home directory.
You may be thinking of:
Code:
cd ~user
That will not work with a variable unless you use eval:
Code:
eval "cd ~$USER"
To go to your home directory, use cd with no directory.
Hi, thank you for your prompt response. I missed that condition. It is from the home directory and you type "..", and they meant to ask about ".." instead of $USER I guess.
I think there might be chance that bash fails on symbolic link?
Hi,
I'm having a problem with the while loop in bash. I try the following script:
#!/bin/bash
while true
do
echo "test"
done
When I try this, it gives me this error:
while: Too few arguments.
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks (5 Replies)
Hello there, I'm a beginner in bash programining and I have a problem with the interpretetion of the code: sed -e "s/\(*\):.*/\1/" in this for loop:
for process in $(sed -e "s/\(*\):.*/\1/" /etc/passwd)
thx for any help
edgehead (3 Replies)
I have a ksh script with the following code and working fine under ksh.
IFS=$IFS
IFS=:
while read a b c
do
test "$a" = "$oraserver" && { orahome=$b; break; }
echo $orahome
done < /var/opt/oracle/oratab2
IFS=$_IFS
... (13 Replies)
#!/bin/bash
# This script takes two arguments: <path> and <dir>. It has to copy in <dir>
#+ all regular files in <path> with .c extension containining at least one while
#+ instruction and one if instruction.
if
then
for file in $(ls "$1" | grep "\.c$")
do
if # doesn't... (9 Replies)
hello i am new with linux
hello unix forum.
i have big problem i want to install the samp server for every user folder for ex..
samp for my frined name fred fredsamp
then i want create more samp to my firend lee
i want folder name will be leesamp
i want to know how make the script put the... (0 Replies)
I am using SunOS 5.9 and have the following outcome when using the sh and bash shells; has anyone else had this:
(tests behave differently)
bash-2.05$ ksh
$ if echo $SHELL; uname -a;; then echo yessssssssssssss; else echo nooooooooooooooo; fi
SunOS s036cln001014 5.9 Generic_118558-27 sun4u... (4 Replies)
Hi, i am making a little script that when its invoked with p or f, it will do different things (p will ask the user to input an string and it will count its words , and f will ask the user a directory and will list the number of files in that directory. But if wont get the comparation string... (1 Reply)
Hi there,
I need to loop some values,
for i in $(seq $first $last)
do
does something here
donefor $first and $last, i need it to be of fixed length 5. so if the input is 1, i need to add zeros in front such that it becomes 00001. It loops till 99999 for example, but the length has to be... (4 Replies)
What's up guys,
I am currently trying to figure out the answer to this question and I cannot for the life of me! The question is : "Explain how to do the following in UNIX/Linux shell script. You are not expected to remember the exact command syntax, but explain approximately how you would... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I'm fairly new to unix, and I have the following problem:
I know that if I type, "ps -ef | grep process", this will return some information about the process named 'process'. What I need this to do is be piped to an extra search that pick's out process' PID. How do I do this?
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LEARN ABOUT FREEBSD
pam_chroot
PAM_CHROOT(8) BSD System Manager's Manual PAM_CHROOT(8)NAME
pam_chroot -- Chroot PAM module
SYNOPSIS
[service-name] module-type control-flag pam_chroot [arguments]
DESCRIPTION
The chroot service module for PAM chroots users into either a predetermined directory or one derived from their home directory. If a user's
home directory as specified in the passwd structure returned by getpwnam(3) contains the string ``/./'', the portion of the directory name to
the left of that string is used as the chroot directory, and the portion to the right will be the current working directory inside the chroot
tree. Otherwise, the directories specified by the dir and cwd options (see below) are used.
also_root Do not hold user ID 0 exempt from the chroot requirement.
always Report a failure if a chroot directory could not be derived from the user's home directory, and the dir option was not specified.
cwd=directory
Specify the directory to chdir(2) into after a successful chroot(2) call.
dir=directory
Specify the chroot directory to use if one could not be derived from the user's home directory.
SEE ALSO pam.conf(5), pam(8)AUTHORS
The pam_chroot module and this manual page were developed for the FreeBSD Project by ThinkSec AS and NAI Labs, the Security Research Division
of Network Associates, Inc. under DARPA/SPAWAR contract N66001-01-C-8035 (``CBOSS''), as part of the DARPA CHATS research program.
BSD February 10, 2003 BSD