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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Appending from a file to a script and vice versa Post 302467117 by Jimmy_c on Thursday 28th of October 2010 09:50:29 AM
Old 10-28-2010
Appending from a file to a script and vice versa
Hi,

I am new to Unix and discovered this example problem online that I believe will help my learning:

Run the command's below
env >> xx
env >> xx
env >> xx
env >> xx
env >> xx
You will now have a file called XX with the env redirected into it 5 times
Create a script named 'username' that takes 1 argument being a file, in this instance we will use the newly created file above xx. Read the input file and look for occurrences of the current user who is executing the script. On finding an occurrence of the username take that line and append it to a file and display a line number and a bracket against the saved line.

Any ideas of how best to tackle this problem?
All replies will be much appreciated

Jimmy Champion
 

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LEARN ABOUT OPENDARWIN

env

ENV(1)							    BSD General Commands Manual 						    ENV(1)

NAME

     env -- set and print environment

SYNOPSIS

     env [-i] [name=value ...] [utility [argument ...]]

DESCRIPTION

     env executes utility after modifying the environment as specified on the command line.  The option name=value specifies an environmental
     variable, name, with a value of value.  The option '-i' causes env to completely ignore the environment it inherits.

     If no utility is specified, env prints out the names and values of the variables in the environment, with one name=value pair per line.

DIAGNOSTICS

     If the utility is invoked, the exit status of env shall be the exit status of utility; otherwise, the env utility exits with one of the fol-
     lowing values:

     0	     The env utility completed successfully

     1-125   An error occurred in the env utility.

     126     The utility specified by utility was found, but could not be invoked.

     127     The utility specified by utility could not be found.

COMPATIBILITY

     The historic - option has been deprecated but is still supported in this implementation.

SEE ALSO

     execvp(3), environ(7)

STANDARDS

     The env utility conforms to IEEE Std 1003.2-1992 (``POSIX.2'').

BUGS

     env doesn't handle commands with equal (``='') signs in their names, for obvious reasons.

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