1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello all, I have a situation where I have a web root directory with a few thousand users spread out into 100 subdirectories in a 00/firstname.lastname, 01/firstname.lastname, etc. hierarchy. I suddenly need to make sure that each of these user directories contains a default index.html file... (6 Replies)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

if ; then echo Its Cold for $sid at $c_dst $jobroot/scripts/abc.sh $sid COLD $c_dst elif ; then echo Its Hot for $sid at $h_dst $jobroot/scripts/abc.sh $sid HOT $h_dst else echo No backup for $sid today wat does foo do ?? (2 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

I need a way to grep -v a list of times/date from the output of postqueue -p that are a few hours old, in order to remove them with postsuper -d. Right now I have a script that is deleting the previous day of messages left in the queue, which runs once each day. I want to clean up the job and... (1 Reply)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hallo, I need to test a String (a special ip number-string). So I want to run that: ipadress=172.0.0.0 # for debugging: echo $ipadress | egrep -e '172\.?\.??\.??$' # the test that doesnt work if test -z `echo $ipadress | egrep -e '172\.?\.??\.??$'` != "" then echo "match" else... (1 Reply)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

I am trying to get sed, tr or awk to search a file that contains records with fields delimited by the vertical bar | and replace the occurrences in the records where the vertical bar is preceded by a space " |" with a vertical bar. Sample data record zelli |||59 Stonewall Dr ||W Barnstable |MA... (2 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

I'm very very new to shell scripting (about 4 hours) i've google'd till i can't google no more is it possible to have store values in a config file .e.g /etc/foo.conf data=/home/ mount=/dev/sda1 size=1GB and access these values from a shell script but also be able to use... (3 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Suppose I have a text file that contains the tags <foo> and <bar>. The text file can have unlimted occurances of <foo> and <bar> and looks somthing like this: <foo> Some Text <foo> Some Text <bar> Some Text <foo> Some (1 Reply)

8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I am relatively new to UNIX and am having some really weird results with redirecting output. I will start at the beginning. I have a file with consists of a list of a chemical name followed by a tab and then a string of characters known as a SMILE string in this format PS_1 C=C PS_2 ... (4 Replies)

9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Sometimes it works for me and sometimes I get this error: syntax error on line 1, teletype Basically I've got no idea whats going on, especially at the end of the command: bc Any help is appreciated (1 Reply)