#!/bin/sh
echo "Please give in the filename"
read NEW_FILENAME
#read the current directory in long listing and sort by filesize (small to big) and writes it to the given filename
ls -l -S -r > $NEW_FILENAME
I want to make shell script that takes a list of host names on my network as command line arguments and displays whether the hosts are up or down, using the ping command to display the status of a host and a for loop to process all the host names. Im new to shell scripting so Im not quite sure... (3 Replies)
Just one question for bash shell script.
In bash script, you can use *.txt to call any files in current folder that ends with .txt, like
rm *.txt
will remove all txt file in current folder.
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Hi Experts,
Need your help.
I am trying to send a command via ssh to about a hundred network devices. I intend to do this via a bash script something similar to the below:
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Hi Folks,
I have a loop that goes through an array and the output is funky.
sample:
array=( 19.239.211.30 )
for i in "${array}"
do
echo $i
iperf -c $i -P 10 -x CSV -f b -t 50 | awk 'END{print '$i',$6}' >> $file
done
Output:
19.239.211.30
19.2390.2110.3 8746886
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Hi All,
I need an assistance with the issue below.
I wrote big script in "bash" that automatically install an LDAP on Clients.
I'd be happy to know in order to avoid duplication of entries in files,
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Hello,
I want to write a bash script to delete the content after '#'. However, if '#' appears in a string with "", ignore this. For example,
input file:
test #delete
"test #not delete"
Output file:
test
"test #not delete"
Does anyone know how to write this script?
Thanks (1 Reply)
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It is a... (6 Replies)
I am trying to look through one of my directories to remove certain files. I am pretty new to Unix and bash so I just need a little help in starting this. I know I would have to write two loops one to iterate the directories and one to iterate the files. How would I write the loops? (3 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT PHP
touch
TOUCH(3) 1 TOUCH(3)touch - Sets access and modification time of fileSYNOPSIS
bool touch (string $filename, [int $time = time()], [int $atime])
DESCRIPTION
Attempts to set the access and modification times of the file named in the $filename parameter to the value given in $time. Note that the
access time is always modified, regardless of the number of parameters.
If the file does not exist, it will be created.
PARAMETERS
o $filename
- The name of the file being touched.
o $time
- The touch time. If $time is not supplied, the current system time is used.
o $atime
- If present, the access time of the given filename is set to the value of $atime. Otherwise, it is set to the value passed to the
$time parameter. If neither are present, the current system time is used.
RETURN VALUES
Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure.
CHANGELOG
+--------+---------------------------------------------------+
|Version | |
| | |
| | Description |
| | |
+--------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 5.3.0 | |
| | |
| | It became possible to change the modification |
| | time of a directory under Windows. |
| | |
+--------+---------------------------------------------------+
EXAMPLES
Example #1
touch(3) example
<?php
if (touch($filename)) {
echo $filename . ' modification time has been changed to present time';
} else {
echo 'Sorry, could not change modification time of ' . $filename;
}
?>
Example #2
touch(3) using the $time parameter
<?php
// This is the touch time, we'll set it to one hour in the past.
$time = time() - 3600;
// Touch the file
if (!touch('some_file.txt', $time)) {
echo 'Whoops, something went wrong...';
} else {
echo 'Touched file with success';
}
?>
NOTES
Note
Note that time resolution may differ from one file system to another.
Warning
Prior to PHP 5.3.0 it was not possible to change the modification time of a directory with this function under Windows.
PHP Documentation Group TOUCH(3)