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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Problems with Syntax Post 302341376 by drew2002 on Wednesday 5th of August 2009 07:00:27 PM
Old 08-05-2009
Problems with Syntax

I'm an experienced programmer that is new to shell scripting. I'm putting together a shell script that erases all files of a certain age. These files are in directories provided on lines of a file that is provided via command line argument and takes any errors(permissions, etc) and emails them to a user. If someone could help me clean up my syntax it would be greatly appreciated.
My idea of what the script should look like: (assuming $file and $days passed in from command line)
Code:
foreach($line of $file)
  find $line -mtime +$days -exec r -f{}\; > errors.txt
x=(wc -l < errors.txt)
if(x>0)
  mail -s "errors" someone@email.com < errors.txt
fi

 

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If bash is started with the name rbash, or the -r option is supplied at invocation, the shell becomes restricted. A restricted shell is used to set up an environment more controlled than the standard shell. It behaves identically to bash with the exception that the follow- ing are disallowed or not performed: o changing directories with cd o setting or unsetting the values of SHELL, PATH, ENV, or BASH_ENV o specifying command names containing / o specifying a file name containing a / as an argument to the . builtin command o specifying a filename containing a slash as an argument to the -p option to the hash builtin command o importing function definitions from the shell environment at startup o parsing the value of SHELLOPTS from the shell environment at startup o redirecting output using the >, >|, <>, >&, &>, and >> redirection operators o using the exec builtin command to replace the shell with another command o adding or deleting builtin commands with the -f and -d options to the enable builtin command o using the enable builtin command to enable disabled shell builtins o specifying the -p option to the command builtin command o turning off restricted mode with set +r or set +o restricted. These restrictions are enforced after any startup files are read. When a command that is found to be a shell script is executed, rbash turns off any restrictions in the shell spawned to execute the script. SEE ALSO
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