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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting intro to UNIX - making a sort-of recycle bin (for fun) Post 302310762 by pludi on Monday 27th of April 2009 02:05:33 AM
Old 04-27-2009
Why would you want the script to clean your "recylce bin" (doesn't GNOME have that by default?) in your login script? Lets assume that you, by accident "deleted" a file. As soon as you open a new terminal it's gone.

Aside from that, there are 3 errors in your code:
Code:
purgeTest= "ls -lA ~/purge"
if [ $purgeTest -ne "total 0" ]

First, there shouldn't be white spaces around the assignment operator. Second, double quotes won't capture the output of the command, use backticks or $( <cmd> ). Third, -ne is for numeric comparison, use != for strings.
 

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setcolor(1F)							   FMLI Commands						      setcolor(1F)

NAME
setcolor - redefine or create a color SYNOPSIS
setcolor color red_level green_level blue_level DESCRIPTION
The setcolor command takes four arguments: color, which must be a string naming the color; and the arguments red_level, green_level, and blue_level, which must be integer values defining, respectively, the intensity of the red, green, and blue components of color. Intensities must be in the range of 0 to 1000. If you are redefining an existing color, you must use its current name (default color names are: black, blue, green, cyan, red, magenta, yellow, and white). setcolor returns the color's name string. EXAMPLES
Example 1 A sample output of setcolor command. The following is an example of the arguments that setcolor takes: `setcolor blue 100 24 300` BUILT-IN FMLI ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
attributes(5) SunOS 5.11 5 Jul 1990 setcolor(1F)
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