I need to have my script know what directory it's in, even if it's run from a symlink located elsewhere. Here's what I've come up with, for the benefit of anyone with a similar need, but I'm also interested to know if there's a more elegant solution. I'd rather not get into awk-land, but I couldn't get the quoting and escaping right with sed.
Hello All,
Assuming i have a thousand symlinks under directory /mydir (and its sub-dir) such as:
mysymlink1 -> ../../../myfoo/mysymlink1
mysymlink2 -> ../../../myfoo/mysymlink2
How can I search the string "myfoo" and replaced with "yourfoo" such that after the operation is complete the... (2 Replies)
Please don't laugh or call me a fool...
I'm trying to set up a script that will go through my Music File directory and generate a set of symbolic links in a directory called "What's New". Within that directory there will be a "30 Days", "3 Months", "6 Months" and "A Year" directories. Within... (0 Replies)
I create the tar file from / like so:
tar cEhf name.tar usr/us
And this creates the tar with the links intact. The problem is that this tar is going to be used for testing, so we want the links to point to the files in the tar. But when I extract the tar into /tmp, I get /tmp/usr/us/... as I... (2 Replies)
Hi I am new to shell scripting. There is a requirement to write a shell script to meet follwing needs.Prompt reply shall be highly appreciated.
script that will compare two config files and produce 2 outputs - actual config file and a report indicating changes made.
OS :Susi linux ver 10.3.
... (4 Replies)
Ive got multiple PCs, sharing an NFS mounted home dir. For certain apps I would like to keep the config files host specific. Easy solution is to create symlinks to local folders for configs. Ideally I would still want the .config files to reside in the user home folder.
Is it possible to... (2 Replies)
Hi,
My first post here:
Was looking if someone can help enhancing my code.
I am limited to sh or ash shell (android / busybox)
I made a script to look for busybox symlinks, backup them and delete them
I have these questions about the below code:
- busybox tar do not has the options... (2 Replies)
So i have read the man pages a few time. Searched google but I am not quite sure i understand all the lingo.
What i want to do is list all files on / except i dont want any symlinks (because if I am searching / I will find the "true" file...correct?)
So there is the -P, -H, and '-type l'... (2 Replies)
I am very noobish to UNIX, our guy is on vacation so I am trying to take up some slack while he is away.
Typically when we use sql from within a shell script, we do so from a file containing the sql.
Example:
$ORACLE_HOME/bin/sqlplus $ORA_DBCU/$ORA_DBCP @${cron_dir}/${report_file}.sql
... (10 Replies)
Hi,
I use rsync to move from source to target, but there are cases that I need to exclude:
Suppose in my file system, I have a soft link ~/data -> /media/volgrp/data.
Under data folder, there is a file hello.txt.
After moving command "rsync --remove-source-files -aH --force ~/data/... (3 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
checkapoppw
checkapoppw(8) System Manager's Manual checkapoppw(8)NAME
checkapoppw - checks APOP password against the file ~/Maildir/.password
SYNOPSIS
checkapoppw prog
DESCRIPTION
checkapoppw reads descriptor 3 through end of file and then closes descriptor 3. There must be at most 512 bytes of data before end of
file.
The information supplied on descriptor 3 is a login name terminated by , a password terminated by , a timestamp terminated by , and
possibly more data. There are no other restrictions on the form of the login name, password, and timestamp.
If the password is unacceptable, checkapoppw exits 1. If checkapoppw is misused, it may instead exit 2. If there is a temporary problem
checking the password, checkapoppw exits 111.
If the password is acceptable, checkapoppw runs prog.
prog consists of one or more arguments.
Compatible tools
There are other tools that offer the same interface as checkapoppw
Note that these tools do not follow the getopt interface. Optional features are controlled through (1) the tool name and (2) environment
variables.
The password database
checkapoppw checks the APOP password against the content of the file Maildir/.password (not encrypted) in the user's home directory corre-
sponding to the login name.
Maildir may be overidden through the environment variable $MAILDIR.
Process-state changes
Before invoking prog, checkapoppw sets up $USER, $HOME, $SHELL, its supplementary groups, its gid, its uid, and its working directory.
FILES
~/Maildir/.password
SEE ALSO checkpw(8), qmail-popup(8), qmail-pop3d(8)AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system.
checkapoppw(8)