1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, what is the command to in unix shell to find whether a particular direcory is existing or not ? example: i am now in ~/scripts directory and want to find if a direcory called 'log' exists or not from a shell scripts. can somebody please help. thanks, sateesh (3 Replies)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, I need a shell script which changes a bunch of files in a particular directory from lowercase to UPPERCASE. I am not very familiar with shell scripts so a detailed explanation would be greatly appreciated!!!! Thanks ini advance! :) (7 Replies)

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I try to write a small script that looks in the file tt for all the words that start with m in lowercase and in which there is no uppercase. #!/bin/sh grep ^m\.*\.\.* tt (4 Replies)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hey, I have a WebDav directory mounted and everything seems fine except for one thing. All file/directory names appear in all UPPERCASE, when in actual fact they are lowercase on the remote machine. For example: foo/bar/baz.html on the remote host, appears on my local machine as... (0 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Well, I know I could use a cron job to check if a new directory is made. However, I know that it won't happen like every 5 minutes and would be waste of resources. I was wondering is there a better way to check if a new directory is made in a certain folder without a cron job. I do not want it to... (3 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi trying to read directory name and compare if exist or not,haw can I do that thanks #!/bin/bash echo -n "Enter: " read var find . -name "$var" -type f (8 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi every body! I wrote script on Fedora (bash shell) to check whether a tring enter from user console is start with a uppercase/lowercase letter or a digit. But with this script i have some problem when I enter from character from 'b' to 'z' --> result is uppercase. This code look like ok but i... (9 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

i want to display all the files which has their names in the Uppercase in a particular directory...guide.. (6 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I have used the command cat * | grep -r <<String>> * It returns: cat : JAN : is directory *********************** ********************* My directory structure: log - JAN -catalina.out -FEB -catalina.out -MARCH ... (11 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

How can i check in shell script if the file is coming from same directory as previous file. (3 Replies)