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Homework and Emergencies Homework & Coursework Questions How to write script in bash. Post 302441654 by alobi on Monday 2nd of August 2010 01:48:27 AM
Old 08-02-2010
Question How to write script in bash.

I am very new to Linux/Unix. Kindly assist the following:

I wish to write a bash shell script called how_many_to_go that calculates and prints the number of days, hours, minutes and/or seconds until the end of the current month (based on the output of the date command).

  • Do not make any assumptions about what month it is - the script should run properly in any month.
  • Assume that it is not a leap year, so the number of days in any month is known (February has 28 days; April, June, September, and November have 30 days; All the rest have 31 days).
  • The output should read "There are d days, h hours, m minutes, and s seconds until the end of the month" except as modified by the command line arguments below.
  • The script should accept command line arguments as follows (assume that it's now 11:00:00 PM on January 30):
    • how_many_to_go - print the number of days, hours, minutes, and seconds until the end of the month (e.g. "There are 1 days, 1 hours, 0 minutes, and 0 seconds until the end of the month")
    • how_many_to_go h - print the number of hours, minutes, and seconds until the end of the month (e.g. "There are 25 hours, 0 minutes, and 0 seconds until the end of the month")
    • how_many_to_go m- print the number of minutes and seconds until the end of the month (e.g. "There are 1500 minutes and 0 seconds until the end of the month")
    • how_many_to_go s - print the number of seconds until the end of the month (e.g. "There are 90000 seconds until the end of the month")


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RBASH(1)						      General Commands Manual							  RBASH(1)

NAME
rbash - restricted bash, see bash(1) RESTRICTED SHELL
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 filename 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
bash(1) GNU Bash-4.0 2004 Apr 20 RBASH(1)
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