1. Shell Programming and Scripting

I had to write a script to change my login password, and the script wasnt working fine. When I searched through the previous postings in this forum, I got the solution (using 'expect' tool). But I would like to know why passwd command isnt working in scripts? (1 Reply)

2. Red Hat

im trying to get an ARP readout using the command 'arp -a'... but the command doesnt exist in Fedora Core 6 - IPv6.... is there an equivalent command? (4 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

I am using Ubuntu linux desktop, and I am trying to schedule a sheel script to run every 10minutes. These are the steps I have taken: crontab -e added and saved this line to the file # m h dom mon dow command */1 * * * * /home/enzo/Desktop/dlrecentuse restarted cron: sudo... (5 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

I need help running a script. I have the script looking into a folder and converting .doc files to .odt. The script works fine except that I want it to only run when .doc files are present. If I can do this then I can put .xls files and .ppt files in the folder and convert them when they are... (2 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, Another problem, here is my code #!/bin/sh dir='/opt/apps/script/CSV' datadir='/opt/apps/script/data' while : ; do ls -1rt $dir/*.csv > /dev/null 2>&1 if ;then cp $datadir/weekly.txt $dir/weekly.csv else exit 0 fi done (10 Replies)

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi I have a job that has been running for a while with the following statement to cleanup a directory: find /dbmgtu01/app/myplace/log ! \( -name "dc*" -o -name "sc*" -o -name "ms*" \) -type f -mtime +30 -print -exec rm {} \ ; The directory was recently changed to a mount point, with a symbolic... (2 Replies)

7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi there, normally if I want to remove a user tht I have added to a specific group, i would do the following this is what my group2 looks like # grep group2 /etc/group group2:x:7777:user2,user1,user4 user1 has been defined in a few groups # id -nG user1 group1 group2 group3 So... (3 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello Everyone, I'm currently have a requirement where I've generated a list of files with specific attributes and I need to know what lines are similar between the two files. For example: -File 1- line1 line2 line3 -File 2- line1 line2 line4 line5 -Desires Output- line1 line2... (5 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I am unable to achieve the file exist conditions if there are multiple files same similar name for e.g. in a $Direct i am having files like aus.txt aus.txt_pr aus.txt_2012 i need to put a file exist condition like which is not working then echo "File present" but the... (9 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a file "file1" that contains several ip address , and the "file2" contains several records , each line in file2 contains somewhere the ip address that i am searching in the file1 I use the unix command grep -w for i in `cat file1` do grep -w "$i" file2 >> file3 done ... (9 Replies)