03-28-2012
Bash shell scripts
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1. The problem statement, all variables and given/known data:
- Test that exactly one command line argrument is enter from the command line. If not, display the usage message and stop the script and set the status to 1. If exactly one is entered, continue processing.
- The argument entered on the command line is your account name (ie firstnamelastname)
- Using the command line arguement search the password file for a match.
- Using the line that matched, get the 4th field and search the /etc/group file for a match.
- Display the only the group name to standard out.
- Cut and Paste you program in the space below also with a session of you executing your program with the examples provided.
For Example,
$ groupname john smith
will output to standout
staff
==========
$ groupname
Usage: groupname account_name
=========
$ groupname jsmith
Usage: groupname account_name
2. Relevant commands, code, scripts, algorithms:
3. The attempts at a solution (include all code and scripts):
if [ $# -ne 5 ]
then
echo usage groupname username
exit 1
fi
~
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debconf-mergetemplate
DEBCONF-MERGETEMPLATE(1) Debconf DEBCONF-MERGETEMPLATE(1)
NAME
debconf-mergetemplate - merge together multiple debconf template files
SYNOPSIS
debconf-mergetemplate [options] [templates.ll ...] templates
DESCRIPTION
Note: This utility is deprecated. You should switch to using po-debconf's po2debconf program.
This program is useful if you have multiple debconf templates files which you want to merge together into one big file. All the specified
files will be read in, merged, and output to standard output.
This can be especially useful if you are dealing with translated template files. In this case, you might have your main template file, plus
several other files provided by the translators. These files will have translated fields in them, and maybe the translators left in the
english versions of the fields they translated, for their reference.
So, you want to merge together all the translated templates files with your main templates file. Any fields that are unique to the
translated files need to be added in to the correct templates, but any fields they have in common should be superseded by the fields in the
main file (which might be more up-to-date).
This program handles that case properly, just list each of the translated templates files, and then your main templates file last.
OPTIONS
--outdated
Merge in even outdated translations. The default is to drop them with a warning message.
--drop-old-templates
If a translation has an entire template that is not in the master file (and thus is probably an old template), drop that entire
template.
SEE ALSO
debconf-getlang(1)
AUTHOR
Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
2012-09-10 DEBCONF-MERGETEMPLATE(1)